Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Stafford Court n.

SE in slang uses

In phrases

have a trial in Stafford Court (v.) [pun on SE staff]

to be beaten, to be thrashed.

1611

R. Cotgrave Dict. of Fr. and Eng. Tongues n.p.: Il a este au festin de Martin baston, he hath had a triall in Stafford Court, or hath received Jacke Drums intertainment.