Gender and Defamation in York 1660-1700

Anne wife of William Straker v. John Straker

Reference: DC.CP.1675/11

Year: 1675

Plaintiff: female

Defendant: male

Defamatory words:

she was an impudent whore and a brasen faced whore and an arrand whore, and shee was all night among whroes, whore masters and bastard getters and bastard bearers wth her base leggs in a whore house

Tagged: impudent, whore