About a quarter of a year last past before this examination there came to this deponent's house Arthur Gray and it chanced also... the said Thompson's wife to be there also and being there together a little space fell to cards for a pot of beer and in their play at length they were at words insomuch that he the said Gray reviled and called her the said Eleanor Thompson arrant whore, saying further then and there that she... was not good in the art of surgery only it to hear a burnt pintle, which filthy words were spoken at that time of malice in the presence and hearing of this deponent, Margaret Thompson and Anne Shaw who was at that time this deponent's servant.
She this deponent chanced to be at the house of her precontest Thomas Woodcock where also [were] Arthur Gray and Eleanor Thompson at cards for a pot of beer, and at the end of their play they were at great words insomuch that Gray reviled her and called her the said Eleanor, arrant whore, and said further that she the said Eleanor was a burnt pintelled whore ... Which words were spoken in the month of June last past as she now remmebereth in the presence of her precontest Thomas Woodcock, this deponent and Anne Shaw, being spoken of mere malice.
She this deponent being a servant with Thomas Woodcock of Lowestoft... before harvest last past before this her examination... there came to the said Woodcock's house Arthur Gray being then at that time also Eleanor Thompson, Gray requested Eleanor to go to cards for a pot of beer, she being at that time sewing, at whose request went and played for a pot of beer and in the end of their play fell out at words together insomuch that Gray reviled her... Eleanor Thompson, and said that she was an arrant whore, and further... Gray said that she... Eleanor was one that burnt men's members. Which words were spoke of mere malice in the presence of this deponent, Thomas Woodcock and Margaret Thompson.