Manuscripts and Special Collections
AN/LB 221/5/23/3-5 : Depositions in Archdeaconry cause of adultery, Nicholas Walker v. Peter Roos, 1610
from the said Rose in these or the like words in effecte vidz: I praye thee Joane
goe to the righte honorable Peter Ros meaning the articulat Peter Ros & bid him
come to mee aboute tenne of the clocke at nighte & knocke at my chamber windowe
& I will lette him in, which message she this deponent did deliver to the said
Peter Rosse who as it is reported at the tyme appointed did goe unto her, when &
wheere he was taken & caried before Sr William Sutton one of the nexte Justices
…
…dicit et deponit that before & since the beginninge of this suite there
was & is a common speeche fame & reporte in the parishe of Laxston articulat
that the articulat Peter Ros & Rose Walker have committed adulterie togeather
& namelie she hathe hearde it so reported of Roberte Smith & his wyfe &
Elizabeth Northe & divers others of the same parishe Et aliter nescit deponere
ut dicit hoc excepto [Translation: and she does not know anything else to testify
or say excepting this,] that she verilie beleeveth that the same common fame &
reporte is true … [mark of Joanna Idle]
