Short Title: Bedell v Wingfield. [Cause code: SCEL-11522]. Documents: bill, answer/s,...

Short Title: Bedell v Wingfield. [Cause code: SCEL-11522].

Documents: bill, answer/s, commission, interrogatories, depositions.

Plaintiffs: William Bedell.

Defendants: Sir Edward Wingfield, Sir Thomas Wingfeild, Garvaise [Gervase] Markam, Roger Dukington,Thomas Bull, Anthony Swallowe and others, of Kimbolton.

County: Huntingdonshire.

Subject: riots at Kimbolton.

Regnal year: Michaelmas 36/37 Eliz I. Case report, taken from Star Chamber Reports, BL Harley MS 2143, ed K. J. Kesselring (List and Index Society, Special Series 57, 2018): [913] Bedle, plaintiff; Sir Edward Wingfield et al,

Defendants: upon information by Mr Attorney General in the behalf of the plaintiff and upon his affidavit that he having complained in this court for diverse riots and outrages and he durreth [dareth] not nor [can?] get any to serve the defendant or his followers and servants with the process of this court, the court thereupon granted a Serjeant at arms to bring in the defendants to answer the plaintiff’s bill. Michaelmas 36 et 37 Elizabeth fo. 256. [914] The court ordered the defendant in this cause to pay the Serjeant’s fees albeit he apprehended them not for that they having the order appeared gratis. Michaelmas 37 Elizabeth 266. [987] Bedle, plaintiff; Sir Edward Wingfield et al: for a riot and misdemeanor in Sir Edward in procuring diverse of his men to lie in wait to beat on Mr Pudsey, a counsellor, as he went homeward for his giving evidence for Her Majesty upon an indictment preferred by the plaintiff unless the said Mr Pudsey would under his hand in writing set down that he had [fo. 69r] abused the said Sir Edward in speeches in giving evidence, and they enforced him to take an oath to perform the same, but one of the defendants when the book should have been tendered him said it should not need to swear him upon a book, but he should be sworn upon the hilt of a sword, the which he did accordingly; for which offence in terrifying him, and persuading an oath in that manner, the said Sir Edward was committed and fined at 1000 marks and bound to the good behaviour and make submission openly in the court. Hilary 39 Elizabeth [note: folio references are to the now lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].