Manuscripts and Special Collections
AN/LB 221/5/23/3-5 : Depositions in Archdeaconry cause of adultery, Nicholas Walker v. Peter Roos, 1610
Lincolne, and then the articulat Peter Ros did offer to drawe his sword and there
upon the said Nicholas Walker havinge a Constable readie did apprehend the said Peter
Rose & the nexte Morninge did carrie him before a Justice of the peace togeather
with the said Rose & this he knoweth to be true because he was present bothe at
the place wheere theie did meete in the nighte & when theie were before the Justice
& that at the tyme of his apprehencion which was at or aboute xij of the clocke
in the nighte he the said Peter Ros had his points untrussed…
[n.b. points = ribbon, cord or lacing used for attaching hose to a doublet, or in
place of modern buttons] [signed John Bealle]
Thomas Lawe of Bildesthrope [Bilsthorpe], Nottinghamshire, yeoman, age 35 years
or thereabouts. Dicit se novisse Nicholaum Walker circiter xxiiij annos et dicit
se novisse Petrum Ros generosum circiter decem annos… [Translation: said that
he had known Nicholas Walker for around 24 years and said that he had known Peter
Roos, gentleman, for around ten years]
… dicit et deponit that in one of the moneths articulat the tyme certeyne he
this deponent remembreth not he this deponent being commanded
