Gender and Defamation in York 1660-1700

Juliana wife of John Foster v. John Peck

Reference: CP.H.3170

Year: 1674

Plaintiff: female

Defendant: male

Defamatory words:

thou art a whoore, and I could have made the my whoore severall tymers; thou art a more common whoore then ever Pegg Beilbie was, who was held and reputed within the cittie of Yorke to be a lewd, lascivious and dishonest woeman of her body

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