Reference: CP.H.4258
Year: 1691
Plaintiff: male
Defendant: male
Defamatory words:
he was a rogue, a rascall, a knave & a fool, and the hempe was growing to hang himselfe in as his father had done
Tagged: rogue
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Common abbreviations:
... abt a month or six weeks before Michaelmas last past... this exte walkeing in ?Davygate within the city of York and heareing some high words between the arte Mr Thomas & Mr Dewfris, sayes that he then & there heard the said Mr Dewfris call the said Henry Thorpe rogue and rascall severall times, wch sd words he then spoake & repeated in the heareing of this exte & of severall others...who were then walking to & fro in the said street...