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[Nathaniel Barber said] Thou or he (Thomas Kemp) art or is a rogue, rascall, scoundrell and villain.
About eight of the clock in the evening of some day in the month of October last (she verily believes) but on what day of the month particularly she cannot now recollect) this deponent happening to be at Mr Kemp's the plaintiff in this cause his house within the parish of St Oswald in Chester with Mrs Kemp in her chamber there, and a noise as of quarrelling being thence heard by them, and Mrs Kemp saying thereupon that she believed somebody was quarrelling with her husband and both she and this deponent then going out of the chamber to see what was the matter, this deponent saw a person standing in the Hall with Mr Kemp whom she did not then know, but was told by Mrs Kemp after, it was one Mr Barber who was clerk to Mr Tagg of Gloverstone, and heard the same person angrily and passionately speaking to the said Mr Kemp say, "Thou art a rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel and a villain" and also heard him following the said Mr Kemp towards his wife's chamber into which he went repeat the same words several times over, so much that Mrs Kemp desired him when he had called him enough to give over, but who heard the same or any part of the said words besides she knows not by reason she stood only in a passage betwixt the chamber and hall aforesaid and could not see any body that way in any other parts of the house.
About five of the clock one evening of some day in October last, being Wednesday she well remembers, for the day of the week and as she believes the twenty second day of the month, though she cannot be positive as to that, as she stood in the hall of Mr Thomas Kemp's house, within St Oswald's parish in Chester where she lives a servant, her Master Mr Kemp being in his kitchen and called thence into the hall to speak with the defendant in this cause, whom she had never to her knowledge seen before, but was afterwards told his name was Barber and that he was clerk to Mr Tagg of Gloverstone after some talk there had near the hall door betwixt her Master and the defendant which she was not near enough to understand, she heard the said defendant angrily speaking to Mr Kemp say, "Thou art a sorry fellow, a rogue, rascall, scoundrell and villain" at which time (as she remembers) one Mary Randles a fellow servant of this deponent was coming down stairs into the hall, and thereupon Mr Kemp turning from the defendant and going out of the hall into his own chamber which is upon the same floor, the defendant followed him to the door thereof repeating the same words (as she remembers) several times as well in the hearing of this deponent who also followed her master to his chamber as of Mrs Martha Jackson another witness produced in this cause, and she believes, because this deponent saw her stand with Mrs Kemp within the door of the chamber and the defendant spoke very loud.
On some day in October last, but the particular day she cannot recollect, this deponent being a servant of Mr Kemp the plaintiff, within St Oswald's parish in Chester, and coming downstairs into the Hall of her Master's house there, saw her Master standing by or near his own chamber door upon the same floor with the hall, and a young man in the hall, whom she never saw before to her knowledge and cannot tell whether if she saw him again she should know him, but has since heard his name was Barber and that he was clerk to Mr Tagg of Gloverstone within St Mary's parish in Chester, and heard the young man speaking to her Master (whom he followed towards his chamber) say seemingly in a great passion, "Thou art a rogue, rascal, scoundrel and villain" and repeated these said words several times over, at the time of which words being spoken this deponent's fellow servant Hannah Pigeon was also in the hall.