Informeth upon oath, that about Whitsuntide was twelvemonth Anne the wife of Richard Heape came to her husband's house in Tonge and complained that she was ill troubled with Heape her husband, because he strikes her and breaks open the buttery door, and delivers out drink when she is away. And this informer advised her to be quiet, and let him alone for it was but when he was drunk, who replied that when she remembered her former husband John Cheetham, she could not endure the said Heape for he always lay upon her to take his Counsel: and he would sober him the said Cheetham, and she this informant said he could not sober him except he should kill him, for when he was in drink he would have his words: and further that she heard her Master Mr Richard Tonge say that being in Cheetham's house about a three weeks since he heard Richard Heape's wife say to the said Heape her now husband I will hang thee, for thou bought rotten meat and poisoned our John: and further saith not.
Deposeth and saith that about a half year since to her remembrance she coming into Richard Heape's house, the said Heape's wife wished she had never known the said Heape, her husband, for if it had not been for him her former husband John Cheetham had been a man alive yet, and further saith that Cheetham's wife told her, that Cheetham appointed her, that she should not suffer [Heape] to lay his hand upon the beer, when the said Cheetham was carried to Church [to be] buried, and further saith not.