Short Title: Attorney General v Owen. [Cause code: SCEL-10849]. Documents: information,...

Short Title: Attorney General v Owen.

[Cause code: SCEL-10849].

Documents: information, answer, replication, commission, interrogatories, depositions.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General (Thomas Egerton).

Defendants: Edward Owen of Abergele, John Wyn George, William Browne, John Smith, John David ap Noel, Thomas Vaughan, and Ricahrd Dorrie.

County: Denbighshire [Wales].

Subject: assault on 11 September 1592, on Piers Holland (the grandfather of Edward Owen), a quiet gentleman of 84, previously sheriff of Denbighshire, as he walked alone in his own grounds with but a walking stick to take the air; resisting arrest.

Regnal year: 35 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):

[905] Attorney Rex, plaintiff; Owen et al, defendants. The defendant Owen convicted for a most barbarous beating and wounding of one Piers Holland his grandfather, being 84 years of age, as he was walking privately in his grounds whereof he languished a year and a fortnight and then died, for which the said Owen was committed and not to be enlarged without Her Majesty's special order and to be carried to Abergelley and at a fair time there to be severely whipped being stripped stark naked before the picture of his dead grandfather which must be as like him as may be, 2000 marks fine, and the rest of the defendants that stood in view where the fact was committed, Fleet and £200 fine. Trinity, 36 Elizabeth, fo. 207.

[959] Attorney Rex, plaintiff; Smith, defendant, a soldier pressed for Her Majesty’s service under the conduction of the Earl of Essex, who reported that he heard it bruited abroad that the Earl of Essex should search certain barrels of gunpowder shipped and made ready for Her Majesty’s service, and found nothing therein but ashes and gravel, whereupon the Earl of Essex called him traitor and pulled him by the beard before the Queen, and that the Lord Admiral was committed to the Tower, for which offence the said Smith refusing to tell his author thereof, was adjudged upon his own confession ore tenus to stand on the pillory in two places, and to lose both his ears, with a paper on his head, Fleet and £20 fine. Easter 38 Elizabeth fo. 160 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].