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About three weeks before Michaelmas last... Mary Frogg and Robert Wright being at very hot and angry words, Robert Wright did in a great passion and anger say that Mary Frogg was a horse-faced jade and a whore, which words or words tending to the same effect were spoken in the little room between the kitchen and the hall of the Blackboys situate in Norwich in the presence and hearing of this deponent and Richard Reynolds her contest as also of her husband Thomas Woolfe... her contest Mary Curtis was then in the kitchen where she might well hear and understand the same words… She beareth equal favour to both parties and wishes right may take place… The words were spoken as this deponent was standing at the door of the little room amongst divers other hot and angry words spoken as well by the producent to and of Robert Wright as by the said Wright to and of the producent… She doth believe that the producent was and is injured in her good name by the words spoken... although the same words were spoken by Robert Wright upon great provocation given by the producent calling him ill-faced rogue with many other bitter and inveighing expressions which this deponent cannot remember.
The night the present sheriffs of the City of Norwich were chosen... Robert Wright did say in a very hot and angry manner unto the producent Mary Frogg amongst other words that she the producent a brazen faced jade and a brazen faced whore, which words were spoken by Robert Wright in the hearing of this deponent although she was not present in the same room of the house called the Black Boys but so near in the kitchen of the same house that she could well distinguish between the voice of the producent and Robert Wright who are well known to this deponent and neighbours, there being then in the room where the words were spoken her precontest Mary Wolfe and her husband… The words by this respondent predeposed to be spoken by Robert Wright were spoken in a low room called the Gun within the house aforesaid… She believeth the producent is and was injured in her good name and fame by reason of the words aforesaid… The producent did provoke Robert Wright by calling him rogue, saying that his father was a [bawling?] rogue with such another sandy pated rogue was he, with many other words which gave the occasion of Wright's calling the producent in such manner as is by this respondent predeposed.