f. 264v
howse of the articulate Iohan Pynner alias
davies in the parishe of homlacie articulate
to se whether examine the said Iohan
touching somme slaunderous speaches vttered
by her touching Sible Smithe thee plaintiff whoe went accord[i]nglie, and
called called her out of her howse vnto
a stile hard by where she was demaunded
by the said hooper whethe[r] she said that
Sible Smith the plaintiffe was deliuered
of a Child at Biford, and she answered
that she did saie soe \and that she knewe to whom she spake it/ but she though[t] noe
harme, and desired that she might be
forgiuen for it Et aliter nescit deponere etc.
Ad 4 dicit eundem esse verum.
Ad quintum refert se ad predeposita etc.
Ad sextum dicit quod nescit deponere.
Ad septimum dicit predeposita sua fuisse et
esse vera etc.
per me Ioh owen
xiij die
Iulij 1599
Iacobus Ballard
Elenora Phellpotes parochie de
Biford in Comitatu, hereford Spinster
vbi inhabitavit per vnum Annum iam
elapsum aut eo circiter, et antea apud
Boulson in Comitatu predicti, ætatis xx annorum
aut eo circiter testis producta iuratus iurata
et examinata dicit et deponit vt sequitur.
Ad primum articulum dicit eundem esse verum.
house of the articulate Joan Pynner, alias Davies, in the parish of Holme Lacy articulate to examine the said Joan touching some slanderous speeches uttered by her touching Sybil Smith, the plaintiff, who went accordingly, and called her out of her house unto a stile hard by where she was demanded by the said Hooper whether she said that Sybil Smith, the plaintiff, was delivered of a child at Byford, and she answered that she did say so and that she knew to whom she spoke it, but she thought no harm, and desired that she might be forgiven for it. And otherwise he knows nothing to depose.
To the fourth he says it is true.
To the fifth he refers to the depositions he has made etc.
To the sixth he says that he knows nothing to depose.
To the seventh he says his depositions made above were and are true etc.
By me John Owen
13th day July 1599
Jacob Ballard
Eleanor Phellpotes, spinster, of the parish of Byford in the county of Hereford where she has lived for one year now passed or thereabouts, and before at Bolstone in the aforesaid county, aged twenty years or thereabouts. The witness, produced, sworn, and examined, says and deposes as follows.
To the first article she says the same is true.