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heard greate talking in the neere vnto the same
place And as she thinnketh it was the plaintiff mistres
Elinor Thomas and the defendant Elizabeth Smithe, but did
not see them : Neverthelesse she heard one \of them/ saie to the
other thowe arte an arrand hoore and I will prove
it, and thincketh that \saieth that/ it was the said Elizabeth
Smithe that said soe, because she did speake
like the said Elizabeth Smith. spoken in the
hearing of lucy drayton Iohn suche and others Et
aliter nescit deponere.
Ad 4 dicit quod nescit deponere.
Ad vltimum dicit predeposita sua fuisse et esse
vera etc.
[Mark in lieu of signature]
signatum Catherine streete
xxviij Novembris
1600
Iohannes Suche parochie de leompster in Comitatu hereford nayler ætatis xxx annorum
aut eo circiter testis productus iuratus et examinatus
dicit et deponit vt sequitur.
1 Ad 1 articulum dicit eundem esse verum.
2. Ad 2. articulum refert se ad leges in ea parte
Ad 3 articulum dicit et deponit quod nescit deponere
that within this twelve moneth last past this examinate
being in a backe field of the defendantes husband
Iohn Smith in leompster articulate, did heare the said
defendant Elianor S Elizabeth Smith speaking to the plaintiff
Elinor the wief of Phillippe ap Thomas, saie if thowe
doest saie that I am not an honest wooman thowe
arte a hoore or such like wordes tending to the same
affect. Et aliter nescit deponere.
4 Ad quartum dicit quod nescit deponere
Ad vltimum dicit predeposita sua esse vera etc.
Iohn such
heard great talking near unto the same place. And as she thinks it was the plaintiff Mistress Eleanor Thomas and the defendant Elizabeth Smith but did not see them. Nevertheless, she heard one of them say to the other, “thou arte an arrand whore and I will prove it.” And said that it was the said Elizabeth Smith that said so, because she did speak like the said Elizabeth Smith. Spoken in the hearing of Lucy Drayton, John Suche, and others. And otherwise she knows nothing to depose.
To the fourth she says that she knows nothing to depose.
To the last she says that her depositions made above were and are true, etc.
Signed [by] Catherine Street
28 November 1600
John Suche, nailer, of the parish of Leominster in the county of Hereford, aged thirty years or thereabouts. The witness, produced, sworn, and examined, says and deposes as follows.
To the first article he says the same is true.
To the second article he refers to the articulate laws in that behalf.
To the third he says and deposes that within this twelvemonth last past, this examinate being in a back field of the defendant’s husband, John Smith, in Leominster articulate, did hear the said defendant, Elizabeth Smith, speaking to the said plaintiff Eleanor, the wife of Philip ap Thomas, say “if thou dost say that I am not an honest woman, thou art a whore” or such like words tending to the same affect. And otherwise he knows nothing to depose.
To the fourth he says that he knows nothing to depose.
To the last he says that his depositions made above were and are true, etc.
John Suche