Upon the second of May last was twelve months Martha Sconce told her this deponent that going to light a pipe at the producent [Jane] Lock's house, she saw the said producent with one Thomas Turner husband to this deponent behind the door naught together, his breeches being down and her coats up with his arms about her waist and her arms about his waist, and that he sweat at it and was out of her breath, and when he had done he askt her the said Sconce who was then in the house what price pots bore. Which words were spoken in the parish of St Stephen in the presence of her this deponent and Elizabeth Dickerson.
Above a year since but the certain time she cannot remember Martha Sconce told this deponent and Elizabeth Turner that going into the house of Thomas Lock she saw Thomas Turner with his arms about the waist of Jane Lock wife of the said Thomas Lock and that he the said Thomas Turner askt Martha Sconce how her potting trade went on… Jane Lock... was acquainted with and did hear of the speaking of the words libellate on the third of May being the day after the same were spoken, being told so by Thomas Lock husband to the said Jane… She hath heard that Jane Lock and Martha Sconce... together with other friends did go down the water together to be merry sometime in June 1697.