Reference: CP.H.4379
Year: 1695
Plaintiff: male
Defendant: male
Defamatory words:
he was a rogue a whoremaster and a whoremasterly rogue and a cheate, and he kept false dies
Tagged: cheat, rogue, whoremaster
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Common abbreviations:
... upon the 15th day of January last pst... she this dept being in her father's shop in Whipma Whapme-gate... heard the arte James Kitching who was then in the open street call the arte Walsingham Cooke rogue & cheate and he further said that he was a rogue and a cheateing rogue and that he kept false dyes to cheate people wch all with severall other scandalous reflecting and diffamatory words... [in the presence of]this dept... Hannah Halliday & severall other people who were standing in the said street...
... beleives that the arte Walsingham Cooke is much injured & wronged and his credit & repuatcon~ much lessened & impaired by reason of speakeing the words...
[she is Walsingham Cooke's daughter]
... on the 15th day of January last past... she this dept being in the open street called Whipmi Whopmie-gate... heard the arte Walshingham Cooke & James Kitching scowlding together in the sd open street & she sayes & deposeth that the sd James Kitching did then & there in an angry & passionate manner call the sd Walshingham Cooke rogue and cheate and an old rogue & cheate & further said that he was an old cheat and that he kept false dyes to cheate people with.... [etc, repeated in presence of named witnesses and several others in the street]...
...[believes cook's reputation has been damaged etc]