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AN/LB 221/5/23/1-2, AN/LB 221/5/23/6-7 and AN/A 21 : Cause papers and Act Book entry in Archdeaconry cause of adultery, Walker v. Roos, 1610-1611
Translation of AN/LB 221/5/23/7, the Libel, into English:
- That in the month of April before the date of these articles, you were with Rose Walker in a place called the Hollyn Hill, and there committed the crime of adultery or fornication with the same Rose Walker
- That in the months stated in the third article, you gave Rose Walker a purse to the value of xxxs or thereabouts, and received from Rose a 'iudusium', four handkerchiefs and divers shirtbands and cuffs
- That in the months of March, April and May of this instant year 1610, you 'did privatly appointe, & agree with the sayd Rose Walker to come unto her unto the house of the sayd Nicholas Walker in Bilsthorpe, at a time when the sayd Nicholas was appointed to be from home, & then & theyre to lye with her the sayd Rose, Et rei veritate you the sayd Peter Roos came unto Bilsthorpe aforesayd uppon Saterday the xixth day of May last past, & about Eleven of the clocke in the night, you (hearing that the sayd Nicholas Walker was not gone from home) dyd send for the sayd Rose to come unto you, & she with her clothes all loose presently repayred unto you, & you & shee walked abroad for the space of an houre or thereaboutes & at the last were found together verie suspiciously your pointes being untrussed'
- That before this, there was a public voice, fame and opinion among the major part of the inhabitants of Laxton and Bilsthorpe that you had committed adultery with Rose Walker
- That there is a public voice and fame concerning all and singular the premises,
in the parishes of Laxton and Bilsthorpe.
