Ann Ellcockes said in the presence of this deponent and hearing of his contests Stephen Harte and John Haiwarde these words following vizt. There is a brewer which had the wife of a jackmaker in Ipswich upon his knee with her clothes up, and her husband coming into the room where they were, she said unto him her said husband, I am glad you are come for I had thought to have shriek out, and Ann Elcockes being demanded what man the jackmaker was, she said, it was one that took in his beer of Inglethorpe, whereupon it was said by one then present that Thomas Wesson the husband of the party producent did take in his beer of Inglethorpe, and thereupon Ann Ellcockes replied and said Thomas Wessom was the jackmaker whose wife she was. Which words were spoken in the month of February in the house of this deponent situate in the parish of St Mary Tower in Ipswich in the presence of this deponent and his contests aforesaid.
Upon the 24th day of February last past Ann Elcockes being in the house of his precontest John Batterson in St Mary Tower parish in Ipswich speaking of the party producent said as followeth, vizt., The wife of Thomas Wessom the jackmaker had half a barrel of beer given her by Inglethorpe's man the brewer for sitting her upon his knee and taking up of her clothes and the husband of the party producent came in and finding the said brewer taking up of her clothes, she the said Ann Wessom said unto her husband in this wise, viz., I am glad thou art come for if thou haddest not come I would have cried out. Which words were spoken in the presence of this deponent, his precontest Batterson and his contest John Haiward… By the speaking of the words afore by this deponent deposed of this deponent did understand that Ann Elcockes meant that the wife of Thomas Wessom had committed adultery with a brewer, neither could the words be otherwise understood in this deponent's judgment.
That upon the 24th of February last past... Ann Ellcockes did in the presence of this deponent and his precontests Stephen Harte and John Batterson and in the house of the said Batterson situate in St Mary Tower parish in Ipswich speaking of the party producent say as followeth vizt. Thomas Wessom's wife the jackmaker had half a barrel of beer given her by a brewer for sitting upon his knee, and he took up her clothes, and while he was taking up of her clothes her the said Ann Wessom's husband came into the house where they were and thereupon she the said ann Wessom said unto her husband, I am glad that thou art come for if thou haddest not come I would have shriek out… This deponent did understand that Ann Ellcockes by the speaking of the words before by him deposed of did mean that Ann the wife if Thomas Wessom had committed adultery with a brewer, and the same words could not in this deponent's understanding be otherwise understood and taken by the hearers thereof.