1 6 ARGENT V CRAYFORD William Argent of Eastry, Co. Kent, Esq V
1 6 ARGENT V CRAYFORD William Argent of Eastry, co. Kent, esq v William Crayford of London and Mongeham, co. Kent, gent March 1638 – February 1639 Name index: Allen, Thomas Argent, Mary Argent, William, esq Barham, Robert, innkeeper Birkenhed, Richard, notary public (also Birkened) Blechenden, Thomas, esq (also Bleachinden, Blechynden) Boyes, Edward, esq (also Boys) Boys, Edward, knight Byng, William, esq Crayford, William, gent (also Craford) Dethick, Gilbert, registrar Duck, Arthur, lawyer Exton, Thomas, lawyer Gookin, John, gent Hayward, Rowland, knight Howard, Henry, baron Maltravers Howard, Thomas, earl of Arundel and Surrey Master, Edward, knight (also Masters) Munings, Edward, esq Nevinson, Mary, lady Nevinson, Roger, knight Price, Ann Richardson, Thomas, notary public Ryden, Anna Ryden, Robert, yeoman Sackett, John, clerk Sladden, John, yeoman Smith, Joanna, widow Stuart, Charles I, king Stuart, James I, king Terrick, Humphrey, lawyer Wood, George, esq Wright, John, yeoman Place index: Kent, Betteshanger Canterbury Eastry Kennington Littlebourne Mongeham 2 Northbourne Ripple River Sandwich Selling Tilmanstone Uffington Walmer Woodnesborough Surrey Subject index: assault challenge to duel denial of gentility drunkenness nicknaming office-holding reconciliation royal servant sexual insult ship money threatened killing Abstract Argent complained that around March 1636, at the Pelican Inn in Sandwich, Kent, at ‘an ordinary where gentlemen meete’ on a market-day Saturday, Crayford had insulted him by taking the place above him at the table and then declaring that ‘I was a base fellow and no gentleman, and that none of my ancestors were gentlemen, and that he would prove me so whensoever he met me, that he would kill me or I him, and badd some or one present tell me so to my face.’ Crayford was married to the daughter of Argent’s wife, ‘Lady Mary Nevinson’ [sic], widow of Sir Roger Nevinson.
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