Gender and Defamation in York 1660-1700

Frances wife of William Turnbull v. Elizabeth Chapman

Reference: CP.H.3810

Related cases: CP.H.3296

Year: 1677

Plaintiff: female

Defendant: female

Defamatory words:

thou arte a base Queane & a whoore and plaide the shoore in a hay cocke, and thy husband is a silly blinde cuckold, thou had noething but an overblowne barne

Tagged: cuckoldry, whore