14 Badd V Rigges
1 9 ARUNDELL V COSWORTH John Arundell of Trerice, co. Cornwall, esq v Samuel Cosworth of Cosworth, co. Cornwall, esq May – August 1640 Name index: Arundel, Richard, lawyer Arundell, John, esq (also Arundel) Arundell, John, knight (also Arundel) Baily, Thomas Basset, Francis, esq (also Bassett) Boscawen, Hugh, esq Cosworth, Dorothy Cosworth, Edward, esq Cosworth, Samuel, esq (also Cosowarth, Coswarth) Duck, Arthur, lawyer Dyer, John, innkeeper Hall, John Kessall, Catherine Lewin, William, lawyer Messer, John Parry, George, lawyer Polwhele, John, esq, Prideaux, Richard, esq Rashleigh, Jonathan, esq Scawen, William, esq Slanning, Nicholas, knight Trefusis, Jonathan, esq Trethewey, John Watson, John, notary public Zouche, Ralph, lawyer Place index: Cornwall, Bodmin Cosworth Fowey Newlin St Columb Major St Columb Minor Trerice Middlesex, Lincoln’s Inn 2 Westminster Subject index: allegation of cheating denial of gentility drunkenness Long Parliament military officer office-holding parliament reconciliation Roman Catholic royalist trained bands Abstract Arundell accused his nephew, Cosworth, a trained band captain, of calling him ‘a base cheating rascall’ at his house in Trerice, Cornwall, in October 1639. Cosworth contended that he had spoken the words in ‘a merry and pleasant way’ and the following day had made a full apology, putting his action down to having been drunk. Since then, he claimed, he had been received at Arundell’s house, with no sign of ill feeling. A commission, headed by Sir Nicholas Slanning, took depositions on Arundell’s
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