In one Lawrence Holland's house in Ince one day a little after Michaelmas last past... William Laverocke told it to one Mr Harrison and this deponent (some others this deponent thinks being then also present but whom he now remembers not) that the arlate Joan Cook did pull William Holt's prick out and he seeming to be angry at it she thereupon pulled up her clothes and said does not this now give him satisfaction or he then said to this purpose.
One day about Michaelmas last past this deponent was drinking in Lawrence Holland's house in Ince and Holland's wife told this deponent that William Laverocke had told her that a woman at Cooke's house (meaning at the plaintiff Samuel Cooke's house, but did not say it was his wife nor name any woman) put her hands into William Holt's codpiece and took hold of his prick which he being very angry at she presently stepped back and pulled up her clothes and said I have made you amends now, or Holland's wife then told this deponent to this purpose.
One day a little after Michaelmas last past, this deponent came into Lawrence Holland's house in Ince into the company of his precontest Arthur Wilkinson and the defendant Wm Holland [Laverocke] who were drinking together there and this deponent perceived that some such words had been spoken by Laverocke as is arlate but part of them were so spoke by him as of that concerning Joan Cooke before this deponent came into their company and part of them after. And about a week afterwards this deponent was in the arlate Samuel Cooke's house in Thornton and the defendant William Laverocke also came in thither after him whereupon the arlate Joan Cooke questioned him for speaking against her the words arlate or some other words to the same effect. He then confessed and said that he had spoken the words and he would stand to it, and did then after several times call her an arrant whore, at which time also were several neighbours present whose names this deponent now remembers not.