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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Manwaring, a merchant, complained that between February and April 1638 in the port of Zacynthi, in the dominions of … of the Resolution called him 'rogue, base rogue, dogge', and threatened to hang him from the yard arm. Johnson claimed … provoked by Manwaring calling him 'stinking Turpalin [sic] and many other scandalous names'. He also maintained that …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… gentlemen, gave him the lie, told him 'he was a foole, and a base fellow, and no gent', and 'made his vaunt afterwards that he had … 5/76, Petition 'Whereas your petitioner holdeth certain lands of the right honorable the Lord William Howard in …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… had said, 'Meynell, Thou art a foole, a silly fellowe and a beggarly fellowe, not able to pay for a pinte of wine and a base fellowe. Meynell, I am as good a man as thou art, … nay a better man then thou art, or anie of thy kindred, and if thou dare goe with mee I will writh thy necke about'. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… town quarreled with Rowland Meyricke at Alice Webb's inn and outside the jail in 1635 (From, John Speed, Theatre of … inn of Alice Webb in Pembroke, saying 'I was a base rogue, and that himselfe was as good a gentleman as any in Wales'. … in December 1634 at Richard Gwilliam's house in Pembroke, and vowed that he would spend £200 to eject Meyricke from his …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that Jones had called him 'a base, baffled rogue', and a coward who had been 'kicked out of doores' by one … the landlord on behalf of Jones, Minshall drew his sword and 'swore he would naile [Jones] to the wall'. Jones, … Jones further, saying 'he lived by walking of horses', and Jones replied that Minshall was 'the cheater that did use …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… knt, Sir Robert Hyde of Salisbury, co. Wiltshire, knt, and Thomas Sheppard, John Monson and Dr Maye, esqs v Henry Ladd January - February 1638 … and did put irons upon his hands and sent him to the common goale saying, Now lett the commissioners fetch him out …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… fellow'. Their quarrel, which stretched back to 1637 and beyond, was over Rookes's possession of the searcher's … claimed cost him £3000-£4000, he had prosecuted Morgan at common law for saying that his wife was a whore who kept a … In case a witness deposed that George Rookes junior 'was a common solicitor of causes and a witness also for his father …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May 1637 - May 1638 Peterborough, where Thomas Billiard and Matthew Robinson quarreled at the Three Tuns Tavern in … Robinson gave him the lie, calling him a son of a whore and challenging him to fight. Robinson claimed that he had … telling him that he was 'no gentleman nor honest man' and Billiard, in turn, insisted that he responded to Robinson …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… co. Middlesex, gent December 1639 - June 1640 Holborn and Drury Lane as they appeared in 1570, before the building … to swearing and *excessive* drinking and curseing, and a common haunter of alehouses and taverns'. She had seen him … given to swearing and curseing and drunkenness, and is a common haunter of taverns and alehouses'. She had seen him …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… in another case between his father, William Freeman, and Robert Hartell [see cause 226]. In addition to his role … drunk, and that his father, William Freeman, had taken his lands from Hartell's father 'by oppression and violence'. He … words' against Freeman's father saying he had gained his lands from Hartell's father 'by oppression and violence'? Did …