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AN/LB 221/5/23/3-5 : Depositions in Archdeaconry cause of adultery, Nicholas Walker v. Peter Roos, 1610
Alicia Unwen of Kneesall, Nottinghamshire, spinster, where she has stayed for about
14 weeks but before at Laxton Hall where she stayed about three years, aged 30 years
or thereabouts … dicit se novisse Nicholaum Walker per xxiiij annos ad minus
et dicit se novisse Petrum Ros ciricuter annum… [Translation: said that she had
known Nicholas Walker for 24 years or less and said that she had known Peter Roos
for about one year]
… dicit et deponit that the articulat Peter Ros for the moste parte is eyther
of Laxstone or of the parishe of Edwinstowe …
… dicit et deponit that in Aprill laste paste the tyme certeyne she this deponent
remembreth not the articulat Peter Ros & the articulat Rose Walker beinge at Laxston
Hall aboute tenne of the clocke in the Eveninge he the said Peter walked forthe of
the house in this deponents sighte & he was no sooner gonne forth but she the
said Rose followed him & so continued abroade with him aboute one houre and a
halfe verie suspiciouslie & in such sorte as this deponent verilie beleeveth that
theie did committee adulterie togeather …
… dicit et deponit that the common fame & reporte is bothe in Bildesthrop
& Laxston that the articulat Peter Ros & Rose Walker have committed adulterie
togeather et interrogata de causa scientie sue dicit [Translation: and having been
interrogated about her knowledge of the cause said] that she hathe heard the same
common fame of John Beale & Thomas Lawe & William Heage & of divers others
… [mark of Alice Unwen]
William Heage of Bildesthrop, Nottinghamshire, labourer, aged 29 years or thereabouts…dicit
se novisse Nicholaum Walker circiter xij annos et dicit se novisse Mr Petrum Rosse
circiter quinque annos …[Translation: said that he had known Nicholas Walker
for around 12 years and said that he had known Mr Peter Roos for around five years]
