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On the fourth day of November last this deponent then living at the Sign of the White Horse in South Lopham the producent Colman and Pottle with her contest Henry Plummer and one Mr Cream of Redgrave were playing at boards-end together, and the producent Colman getting the better of Pottle at play, upon which Pottle said to Colman, You are a rogue and a whoring rogue, and abused Colman with many other like words then and at several times after that, which said words were spoken by Pottle to Colman in the parlour at the Sign of the White Horse in South Lopham on the said fourth day of November last in the presence and hearing of her contest Henry Plummer then present... At several times since the fourth day of November she this deponent hath heard Pottle declare the same words of Colman and especially upon the twenty-sixth day of November.
On the fourth day of November last this deponent being at the Sign of the White Horse in South Lopham with the producent Colman and the articulate Pottle, Colman and Pottle playing at boards end together there arose some dispute and Pottle called Colman, rogue, and said none of his children sucked whore's milk as his did... which words were spoken by Pottle in the parlour at the Sign of the White Horse in South Lopham in the presence and hearing of his contest Mary Taylor and some others then present... Several times since and particularly sometime in December... he this deponent hath heard Pottle call Colman rogue and whoring rogue.
That sometime in November last... John Pottle and Abraham Colman husband to the producent being at the Sign of the White Horse in South Lopham (where this deponent then lived as a servant) in the parlour playing at slide groats, one beating the other at play they began to quarrel and Pottle... said to Colman husband of the producent, that he nor his wife nor any of his children ever sucked whore's milk, as his children, namely Colman's, had done, and told Colman that his wife was as common as the ground, which words were spoken in the presence and hearing of his precontest Henry Plummer and several others who were then in the parlour... She has several times heard Pottle say that Colman was a whore but don't well remember the particular times and places.
About five weeks after Michaelmas last he being at the Sign of the White Horse in Lopham in the parlour in company with Mary Taylor and several others who were then playing at shuffle board, he heard Pottle say to Abraham Colman husband of the producent, thank God my children never sucked any whore's milk as yours, which words were spoken in the presence and hearing of Mary Taylor... That several times since the speaking of the words predeposed he has heard Pottle say that the producent [Mary] Colman was a whore and a drunken whore and that she is as common as the street.