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That upon the eleventh day of January last past in the afternoon of the same day this deponent together with Mr Richard Bulles his contest and others being at the house called the White Horse arlate in the parish arlate, he did then see Thomas Turner arlate so drunken and overtaken with drink or wine, as that he the said Turner could neither well stand nor speak and was void of common understanding, and did also then and there hear him the said Turner blaspheme the holy name of God and swear most grievously vizt by god’s wound god’s blood and other grievous oaths without any occasion given to him by any person in in which drunken humour the said Turner continued in the said house after this deponent did first see him there above one hour, and this deponent then asking the servants how he came in that drunken case, and where he had gotten so much drink they answered him, that he the said Turner had been drinking in a chamber of the same house with the miller’s wife… almost all of the afternoon, and that she was also so drunken with drinking with him that she was laid in a chamber of the same house dead drunk wallowing in filthy sick, and that there was aqua vitae sent for to comfort her.
This deponent being at the sign of the White Horse which is a public inn within the city of Norwich did see the arlate Thomas Turner at the said house drinking the most part of the afternoon… wine and beer and continued so long drinking that he was so far gone thereof and so drunk as that he would not go on himself upon his feet but reeled and tottered to and fro and fell out of a chair whereon he was sat and leaned upon this deponent in such sort as he hath his legs with his heels neither seemed he to have any sense or reason to go on himself for he let fall a piece of gold of his hand as he went… willing for more drink which he had lost if some of his friends who were careful that he should not receive any damage… he further saith that in his drunken fits he did in this deponent’s hearing swear and blaspheme his name of god swearing god’s wounds god’s blood god’s earth and other fearful oaths… present at all the said behaviour… this deponent with Roger Styles his contest and divers others who were much grieved to see him… That… he further deposeth that the servants of the same house told this deponent that the said Turner had accompanied the arlate Pickell’s wife who of his certain knowledge is reputed for a common strumpet certain hours drinking of wine and beer in a chamber and that the said Pickell’s wife was laid in a chamber drunk in most beastly manner.