Upon or about Tuesday after Midsummer day last past in Alderman Pilkington's house in Wigan, Anne Bankes without any persuasion at all did in a very disgraceful manner call Anne Barker a whore, and said she kept a bawdy house and had done so ever since she came to that house which she lived and that she made all her servants into whores and those that would not be she turned them away or she uttered words to this purpose, the time and place aforesaid, this deponent and her contest Ellen Jolly both of them hearing the same... Anne Barker is much prejudiced in her good name by reason of the words aforesaid, and Anne keeping a public inn and alehouse diverse persons by reason thereof refuse to come to her house.
Upon after Midsummer Day last past in a place in Mr Pilkington's house in Wigan, Ann Banks called Anne Barker a whore. And said that she kept a bawdy house, and made all her servants into whores and those that would not be, she turned away and her house had carried the name of a bawdy house ever since she came to it, so she spoke words to that purpose this deponent and her precontest hearing the same. Mrs Pilkington was in the aforesaid place at the same time.