On the 22nd of October last the abovesaid Susan Bigget was at Coates's cellar in the market and Peter Dereley came down into the cellar and called for several tankards of beer and drunk to Susan Bigget and from thence they went to Luke Fuller's in St Swithin's parish and Peter Dereley spent about three shillings and from thence Peter Dereley and Susan Bigget went on to the Castle Dikes to a cellar called Hell Cellar and Margaret Dickerson knocked at the door and the nurse came and opened the door and Peter Dereley and Susan Bigget went into a little room and drank. And Peter Dereley made Susan Bigget lay down on the planking and took up her clothes and forced her legs open and had the carnal knowledge of her body twice that morning... Peter Dereley have given her the bad distemper called the pox.
Depositions & Examinations
NCR Case 12b Box 1 (Parcel 4)
NRO
Sexual Assault
Plaintiff
Susan Bigget
female
St Michael at Thorn, Norwich, Norfolk, England
Basic Mark
Defendant
Peter Dereley
male
Event
Sexual assault at a cellar alehouse
22 October 1706
Hell Cellar, Norwich, Norfolk, England
Components
Commercial hospitality
Company and drinking groups: mixed
Sexual assault
Illness
Alcohol | Beer
Setting
Alehouse > Cellar
Location of Event
Statement
26 November 1706
Susan Bigget