Examinacio testis inferius nominata capta coram venerabili viro Magistro Michaele Purefey in artibus Magistro surrogato Magristi Nicholai Langford artium Magistri domini Archidiaconi Nottingham Officialis in presentia mei Johanis Tibberd notarij publici deputati registrarij xxvto die mensis Octobris Anno domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo decimo.
[Translation: The examination of the named witness below was taken in front of the venerable man Magister Michael Purefey, surrogate to Magister Nicholas Langford Master of Arts, Official [judge] of the lord Archdeacon of Nottingham, in the presence of me, John Tibberd, notary public, deputy registrar, on the 25th day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Six hundred and ten]
Joanna Idle of Laxston, Nottinghamshire, spinster, aged 40 years or thereabouts
dicit se novisse Nicholaum Walker circiter annum et dicit se novisse Petrum
Ros circiter triginta annos
[Translation: said that she had known Nicholas
Walker for around one year and said that she had known Peter Roos for around thirty
years]
dicit et deponit that the articulat Peter Ros at the beginninge of this suite
was of the parishe of Laxston articulat but of whence he is nowe she knoweth not
dicit et deponit that in Lent laste paste the tyme certeyne she this deponent
remembreth not she this deponent did see the articulat Peter Ros & the articulat
Rose Walker sittinge all alone togeather in a chamber at Laxstone Hall about tenne
of the clocke in the forenoone
dicit et deponit that aboute a sevennight or a fortnighte after Easter laste
paste the articulat Peter Ros comminge forth of Stafford sheere did give to the
articulat Rose Walker a purse worth as he reported xxxijs & this she knoweth
to be true by reason the said Peter did acknowledge that he had given to the said
Rose a purse worth xxxijs in this deponents heeringe & further saith that she
the said Rose did give to the said Peter a shirte & two bands as he the said
Peter did confesse in this deponents heeringe & that the said Rose did sende
by her this deponent one napkinge to the said Peter Ros which she this deponent
did deliver to him
dicit et deponint that aboute Maye daye laste paste the tyme certeyne she
this deponent remembreth not she this deponent was requested by the articulat Rose
Walker to deliver a message in privat to the articulat Peter Rose which message
she this deponent did receave