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That immediately after Candlemas last past in January or February and namely in the great snow this deponent being in company in Nantwich with the said Litler he the said Litler and this deponent lying in bed together he confessed that the arlate Ellen Weld being at his father’s house in Shavington in Wybunbury parish two nights in the Christmas before being Christmas last she the said Ellen lay on the rushes in his chamber and did not go to bed to his sister’s being nobody in the chamber but himself and further saith that he confessed that at the same time in Christmas predeposed he going to bring the said Ellen towards home went to one Widow Gifford an aleseller in Wistaston where he confessed they tarried together that night following and that he that night had the carnal use of the body of the said Ellen three several times and confessed that she the said Ellen would not be persuaded but that then he had gotten her with child and that at one of the times when he had the use of the body of the said Ellen or to that effect the said Widow Gifford coming into the said room where they were had like to have taken them or to that effect and this night as he confessed was Tuesday night before New Year’s Day last… He is more familiar and in company with Slade than with Litler… the said Litler and Weld both Confessed they were at the house of Gifford… on Tuesday in Christmas last vizt the Tuesday before New Year’s Day and saith the said Gifford hath kept ale… since this respondent could remember… he hath heard Slade and Robert Litler’s sister were drinking at the said Gifford’s house… with the said Robert Litler and Ellen Weld in the day time.
That within the time arlate and in Christmas last the arlate Robert Litler and Ellen Weld came together to this deponent’s house and there continued drinking with other company till night and then the said Ellen desired that the said Robert Litler might rest himself upon a bed a while and this deponent being unwilling she was more urgent and said he could not go and saith they went both into a chamber and there she laid him down and she sat by him at the bed and this deponent when it was seven in the night said to the said Ellen that if she would sit up this deponent would sit up with her and she said she would lay her down by him for she might lie late and enough and she would keep there in the chamber by the said Litler… In the morning this deponent perceived that she laid then upon the bed by the said Litler and she went again in the morning and left him there and he after she was gone rose of the bed and called for drink and had six pence which he left unpaid and told this deponent that she the said Ellen should pay… She hath sold ale above 20 years and saith she hath one chamber and a bed in it which sometimes people drink in… and another bed in a loft being a little loft… That at the time predeposed in Christmas… Thomas Slade came in company with… Litler and Weld and he stayed until night and a sister of the said Litler was likewise there but went away before night and divers others came in and did drink but all save the said Litler and the said Ellen went away about daylight... and further saith that far in the night there only came this respondent’s brother-in-law… and called for one whisken of ale and drank with the said Litler in the said chamber he being laid upon the bed and then this respondent’s brother in law and his son went away and this respondent went up to bed to her children in the loft leaving him the said Robert and the said Ellen only in the same room… That the said Ellen came as is interrogated with company… Robert Litler did not go forth of the company he came with all until they went and afterward upon the said Ellen’s entreaty and urging he went into the chamber predeposed and she went with him… the said Ellen and Robert went both together into the said chamber and there stayed till morning for ought she knoweth.