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That this deponent being in a mill door situated in Nantwich within the time arlate the certain day or day of the month he knoweth not but saith it was about Michaelmas last, heard the defendant Thomas Harrison speaking to the plaintiff in an angry manner call her a whore… with divers more vile and bitter words, he the defendant being then in his father’s shop… That Margaret Wilks the Mother and Anne Wilks and Margaret Wilks another daughter being together divers words passed betwixt them and the defendant but this respondent did not hear… Anne Wilkes give such words… but to his remembrance she called him a rascal and a knave and a drunken lad but cannot tell for certain whether it were before or after the words deposed but doth believe Thomas Harrison did first give the occasion.
The plaintiff Anne Wilkes after the defendant had given her the words predeposed called him a drunken rogue and rumgate and had hid his head or the like words.
She heard the plaintiff Anne Wilks call the defendant Thomas Harrison a drunken knave and a lousy knave or rogue but whether she called him so before the words predeposed were uttered or after this respondent cannot answer.