Manuscripts and Special Collections
AN/LB 221/5/23/3-5 : Depositions in Archdeaconry cause of adultery, Nicholas Walker v. Peter Roos, 1610
…dicit et deponit that for the most parte the articulat Peter Ros hath binne
& is of the parishes of Laxstone & Edwinstowe …
… dicit et deponit that aboute the tyme articulat one Thomas servant as he this
deponent thinketh to the articulat Peter Ros came late in the Eveninge about x of
the clocke at nighte to the house of Nicholas Walker articulat & callinge at the
doore the articulat Rose Walker came to the windoe & whispered with the said Rose
which said Rose presentlie after she had whispered with him took occasion to goe out
of the doores but to what purpose he knoweth not wheere shee continued aboute the
space of an houre in which tyme he the said Peter Rose & shee the said Rose weere
taken by her husband and the constable & some others and broughte to the towne
in verie suspicious manner & the nexte daye were caried before Mr William Sutton
& this he knoweth to be true because he this deponent did & dothe dwell with
the said Nicholas Walker & did see & heere all that he hathe deposed …
[mark of William Heage]
