That since the beginning of this suit as this deponent believeth, but saith she doth not certainly remember the time, the defendant came to this deponent's husband's house, and this deponent having heard of the falling out and ward betwixt the plaintiff and the said defendant, reproved her the said defendant and asked her why she did call the plaintiff whore, whereupon the said defendant replied that what she called her the plaintiff she told her in her ear and therefore if she called her whore she might have kept it to herself, but saith the told this deponent, that, at a certain time her the said defendant's husband, being gone from home about some business of the plaintiff's husband the said plaintiff and her the defendant's husband lay both in one chamber all night he in a high bed and she in a truckle bed under him the door being made upon them, and asked this deponent what she thought of this, and this deponent answering that she thought she might be an honest woman notwithstanding, the said defendant said she did not think so.
A little before the death of the late lord Bishop of Chester this deponent in the house of one Thomas Marsland within the parish of St Bridget's of this City and the defendant being there also Margaret Marsland her precontest did ask the said defendant why she said and called the plaintiff whore, whereunto the defendant replied that what she called he she told he in her ear and therefore she might have kept it to herself, and saith the defendant did then affirm that when Robert Bryce the defendant's husband and the plaintiff were from home about her the plaintiff's husband's business they were lodged both all night in the same chamber and the said Robert Bryce lay in an high bed and the plaintiff in a truckle bed under him.