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Depositions & Examinations
ZQSF 79/49
CRO
Immorality
1668
Chester, Cheshire, England
Plaintiff
[Not specified]
[Not specified]
Defendant
Elizabeth Lawrenson alias Ascoe
female
Basic Mark
Event
Carnal relations at Widow Walker's house
November 1668
Watergate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England
Components
Commercial hospitality
Inferred
Fornication
Setting
Alehouse
Location of Event
Inferred
Statement
13 November 1668
Elizabeth Lawrenson alias Ascoe
Deposeth upon oath that she is gotten with child by John Edge of Golborne in the County of Chester yeoman and that he had several times carnal knowledge of her body at the house of Widow Walker in the Watergate Street… and gave her five shillings for the first time and twelve shillings at another time for her passage to Ireland and twelce pence in the last Assize but one week at Chester.