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Elizabeth Barker where were you one Sunday all night were you not in the company of one Richard Tue that night; how long were you together and who was in your company else. Were you not in one Hugh Hall’s house being an alehouse in a secret place which is taken out of the buttery that hath a secret door into it and openeth on the back of the house what business had you there in the night time from 8 o’clock till almost 12 on such a secret corner without light. What did he do to you in that place at that time. What talk had you with the said Tue then and there and about what matter was it for yourself or for on Elizabeth Massie wife of Thomas Massie your other namesake who was presented not long ago to the Dean by the Churchwardens and sworn of Wrenbury upon a vehement suspicion of adultery, and the same presentment nothing punished… And how often have you known them meet at this Hall’s house being a bawdy house, to have good cheer together…
Henry Hall… How often have you known Richard Tue and Elizabeth Massie his wife’s son’s wife meet at your house to have good cheer together. Have you not heard there hath been vehement suspicion of adultery between them; to the offence of all their honest neighbours. How often have you been a bawd, in fetching them together to your house did not you send for them by one of your children or fetch them yourself once to come and eat a syllabub, with Tue, and another time other tansies or pancakes: and have you not heard that his wife hath been greatly aggrieved for such suspicious meetings… How often have you been a bawd to bring this Elizabeth Barker an honest maid to meet Tue at your house, at inconvenient times and in secret corners to sit and feast together. Did not you one Wrenbury wake day at night last knowing that Tue and this Elizabeth Barker were conveyed into your secret chamber taken for some wicked purpose out of your buttery perceiving that they were watched take the candle from them; and suffer them to sit there till Mr Randall Starkie… came out of his bed about 12 o’clock there found them together without light that every one cried out of such a bawdy place, shalt any man’s servant should be so destroyed. Did not the said Tue send you as his bawd to… fetch him his daughter-in-law Massie to have come to him from her husband and all her friends which were in your house seeing mirth into that dark chamber and did not you go for her 3 or 4 times, and one Oliver Bristoe would not suffer her… Have not you and this Tue and his daughter-in-law… met at Hall’s and other places to have good cheer together you always then with them. And did you not meet Massey’s wife in Chester when she came for the lath and said except she would go drink with you some wine that you would own yourself upon your sword which thing she consented unto and did not Mr Starkie come and find you drinking together.
Richard Tue… Were you not in one Hugh Hall’s house being an alehouse in a secret place which is taken out of the buttery that hath a secret door into it and openeth on the back of the house. What business had you there in the night time from eight o’clock till almost 12, in such a secret corner without light. What did you do to her in that place at that time. What talk or business had you with the said Elizabeth Barker then and there, or about what, you being a married man and she a single woman is a gentleman of Wrenbury’s servant who hath the rule of all his house and a great substance submitted to her charge… you must show some honest cause or else it is though you have abused her body by adultery, for there were many in the house and the said Elizabeth was watched to go out of the house from the company out of the house and to come in at the back door into that secret place where you were, and her Master being in bed was fetched [by] those which see and heard you doing suspiciously to find you together which he did.
Elizabeth Barker where were you one Sunday all night were you not in the company of one Richard Tue that night; how long were you together and who was in your company else. Were you not in one Hugh Hall’s house being an alehouse in a secret place which is taken out of the buttery that hath a secret door into it and openeth on the back of the house what business had you there in the night time from 8 o’clock till almost 12 on such a secret corner without light. What did he do to you in that place at that time. What talk had you with the said Tue then and there and about what matter was it for yourself or for on Elizabeth Massie wife of Thomas Massie your other namesake who was presented not long ago to the Dean by the Churchwardens and sworn of Wrenbury upon a vehement suspicion of adultery, and the same presentment nothing punished… And how often have you known them meet at this Hall’s house being a bawdy house, to have good cheer together…
Henry Hall… How often have you known Richard Tue and Elizabeth Massie his wife’s son’s wife meet at your house to have good cheer together. Have you not heard there hath been vehement suspicion of adultery between them; to the offence of all their honest neighbours. How often have you been a bawd, in fetching them together to your house did not you send for them by one of your children or fetch them yourself once to come and eat a syllabub, with Tue, and another time other tansies or pancakes: and have you not heard that his wife hath been greatly aggrieved for such suspicious meetings… How often have you been a bawd to bring this Elizabeth Barker an honest maid to meet Tue at your house, at inconvenient times and in secret corners to sit and feast together. Did not you one Wrenbury wake day at night last knowing that Tue and this Elizabeth Barker were conveyed into your secret chamber taken for some wicked purpose out of your buttery perceiving that they were watched take the candle from them; and suffer them to sit there till Mr Randall Starkie… came out of his bed about 12 o’clock there found them together without light that every one cried out of such a bawdy place, shalt any man’s servant should be so destroyed. Did not the said Tue send you as his bawd to… fetch him his daughter-in-law Massie to have come to him from her husband and all her friends which were in your house seeing mirth into that dark chamber and did not you go for her 3 or 4 times, and one Oliver Bristoe would not suffer her… Have not you and this Tue and his daughter-in-law… met at Hall’s and other places to have good cheer together you always then with them. And did you not meet Massey’s wife in Chester when she came for the lath and said except she would go drink with you some wine that you would own yourself upon your sword which thing she consented unto and did not Mr Starkie come and find you drinking together…
Richard Tue… Were you not in one Hugh Hall’s house being an alehouse in a secret place which is taken out of the buttery that hath a secret door into it and openeth on the back of the house. What business had you there in the night time from eight o’clock till almost 12, in such a secret corner without light. What did you do to her in that place at that time. What talk or business had you with the said Elizabeth Barker then and there, or about what, you being a married man and she a single woman is a gentleman of Wrenbury’s servant who hath the rule of all his house and a great substance submitted to her charge… you must show some honest cause or else it is though you have abused her body by adultery, for there were many in the house and the said Elizabeth was watched to go out of the house from the company out of the house and to come in at the back door into that secret place where you were, and her Master being in bed was fetched [by] those which see and heard you doing suspiciously to find you together which he did.