[1] The eighteenth of Iune in Trinitie terme,A combat appointed at Turhill but not tried. there was a combat appointed to haue beene fought for a certeine manour & demaine lands belonging there|vnto, in the Ile of Hartie, adioining to the Ile of [...] in Kent. Simon L [...]w & Iohn Kim [...]were plaintifs, and had brought a writ of right against Thomas Para [...]re, who offered to defend his right by battell. Whervpon the plaintifs aforsaid accepted to answer his challenge, offering likewise to defend their right to the same manour and lands, and to proue by battell, that Paramore had no right no [...] good title to haue the same manour and lands. Here|vpon [page 1226] the said Thomas Paramore brought before the iudges of the common plees at Westminster,Thorne and Nailer com| [...]ttants. one George Thorne, a big, broad, strong set fellow; & the plaintifs Henrie Nailer, maister of defense, and seruant to the right honourable the earle of Leice|ster, a proper slender man, & not so tall as the other. Thorne cast downe a gantlet, which Nailer tooke vp, vpon the sundaie before the battell should be tried. On the next morow, the matter was staied, & the par|ties agréed, that Paramore being in possession shuld haue the land, & was bound in fiue hundred pounds to consider the plaintifs, as vpon hearing the mat|ter the iudges should award. The quéenes maiestie abhorring bloudshed, & (as the poet verie well saith)

The quarell [...] combat [...] by the quéenes ma|ie [...]tie. (Tristia sanguinei deuitans praelia campi)

was the taker vp of the matter, in this wise. It was thought good, that for Paramores assurance, the or|der should be kept touching the combat, and that the plaintifs Low and Kime should make default of ap|pearance; but that yet such as were suerties for Nai|ler their champions appearance, should bring him in; and likewise those that were suerties for Thorne, should bring in the [...]ame Thorne in discharge of their band: and that the court should sit in Tuthill fields, where was prepared one plot of ground, of one and twentie yards square, double railed for the com|bat. Without the west square a stage being set vp for the iudges, representing the court of the common plées.