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This deponent saith that about a month before Christmas last… he this deponent was late in the evening at the house of Peter Clayton brother to the plaintiff: where the plaintiff then and now was abiding and being in a little kitchen cross the house westward… Thomas Astley and the defendant called to the plaintiff and she answered him (and came to him) and after rehearsal of some causes between the plaintiff and defendant he the defendant called her whore and arrant whore.
This deponent saith that about a month before Christmas last this deponent at the request of the defendant went with him to the house of Peter Clayton brother to the plaintiff in the sat late in the evening and because that the defendant would not go into the house at that instance required this deponent to go in and tell the plaintiff that this defendant would fain talk to her and she the plaintiff [said] she could not talk with him then but this deponent she would speak with him at the window and after a little pause made and the people in the house at rest he this deponent and the said plaintiff repaired to the small window where the plaintiff and defendant were in talk and… he this deponent heard the defendant say I kept well you will not let me in now but you were willing to let me in when I had dealing with you upon that floor a dozen times meaning a cross kitchen floor where they stood talking.