Short Title: Attorney General v Smith. [Cause code: SCEL-17206]. Documents: information...

Short Title: Attorney General v Smith.

[Cause code: SCEL-17206].

Documents: information only.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General (Gilbert Gerard).

Defendants: John Smith esq of Baddow, and William Serydge, Richard Hamonde his servants.

County: Essex.

Subject: beating one Alexander Horden, clerk of the Queen's spicery, and misusing the constable and watchmen of Romford; for further parts of this cause, see STAC 2/24/70 and STAC 2/24/71 wrongly filed as temp Henry VIII.

Regnal year: 1 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):

[113] Smyth convicted for beating one Horden, one of the clerks of the spicery to the Queen, for which committed to the Fleet close prisoner until the next term, until further order should be taken for his delivery and £100 fine. The same Smyth convicted for a misdemeanor and a disorder by him done against a constable of Rumford, and the watch of the same town in misusing and disturbing them for which offense also committed and fined at £100 and adjudged to pay to the constables £10 and £5 amongst the watchmen. Michaelmas 1 Elizabeth fo. 80. See the order against Horden whereby he was ordered to lose his benefit for seeking to revenge the injury done by Smyth to him by raising of a multitude of the black guard against Smyth in Fleet Street, fo. 81 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].