As well as he can remember about June last past tis about four months since, John Inman talking of or concerning the producent Mrs Ann Lulman at Frank Dunch's coffee house in the market place in Norwich did then say that Anne Lulman when she came within about thirty yards of him as he was pissing cried, Bo, and added that Mr [Denee?] and Mr Brogden would swear that she told them that after she had seen it (by which word 'it' he this deponent understood his privities) she could not sleep a nights for dreaming or thinking of it... And Mr John Inman did also say further that when he was a widower she the said Anne Lulman would not tell, what might she tell tales now? and thereupon the company did shout and laugh out aloud… By the whole tenor of the discourse of Mr John Inman as above deposed... concerning Ann Lulman he understood that Mr Inman's meaning was that he had been very familiar with Anne Lulman and had been guilty of some indecency or incontinent with Mrs Anne Lulman and in the [illegible] he believes the whole company took it by the [illegible] and laughing as aforesaid and there was at [illegible] a great deal of company in the said coffee house [illegible] Mr Denny, Miles Brainthwait... He cannot tell the very exact day of the month the words were spoken by John Inman, twas about 4 of the clock in the afternoon; Mr John Inman did not seem to be in a passion but he did believe that he did it to discredit and expose the reputation of Mrs Lulman because it was spoken in such a public place as a coffee house he cannot think he meant anything less than to defame her, and as for the particular words verbatim he can't tell; but he has before deposed as near the words if not the same as he can now remember… He has been acquainted with Mrs Ann Lulman and her family a great while and he never in all his life ever heard or saw any ill word or action or from Anne Lulman… He can't tell how Ann Lulman has been injured by John Inman for he has not heard anybody speak the worse of her for being defamed by Mr Inman as abovesaid… He never heard the words spoken of Mrs Lulman until Mr Inman spoke them at the coffee house… He has heard some people say that Captain Lulman had better let this business alone rather than stir in this; but if he may give his opinion he thinks the Captain does his daughter's reputation justice in prosecuting Mr Inman for this defamation.
About four months since, this deponent being at Francis Dunch's coffee house in Norwich, there being present Mr Miles Brainthwaite, Mr Peter Hasbert and others, John Inman said that as he was pissing in the Castle Dikes in Norwich Mrs Anne Lulman about twenty or thirty yards before she came at him called out Bo, and that he also then said that Mr Denee the attorney and Mr James Brogden would swear that Anne Lulman did tell them that after she had seen it, which this deponent understood to be his privy parts, she could not sleep for thinking of it... which set all the people present a-laughing... At the same time John Inman over and over several times said that Anne Lulman did not tell tales of what passed between us... whilst he was a widower… He understood by John Inman's discourse of Anne Lulman that he the said John Inman had been guilty of some rudeness, indecency or incontinence with Anne Lulman... John Inman (after Mr Peter Hasbert his contest above was gone out of Frank Dunch's coffee room abovementioned) did say that he spoke the more and the oftener of Anne Lulman because Mr Hasbert was present and he knew he would tell Captain Lulman, Anne Lulman's father, what he had spoke of her… He has already declared what the particular words were which John Inman did speak of Anne Lulman... and likewise the house and room... John Inman was not in any anger or passion as he could perceive when he spoke the words... but never heard that ever Anne Lulman reported anything of John Inman, all that ever he heard was that an information was given in against him at the Crown bar… He did hear of an information at the Crown Office against John Inman and of Mrs Anne Lulman's crying Bo before he heard John Inman speak the words before by him deposed to the libel given in this cause… He believes Anne Lulman is injured in her reputation but he never heard either Anne Lulman or her father ever speak of it until the suit was begun in the Crown Office and that was by her father...
In company with John Inman on about the first day of March last, he thinks it was at the Sign of the Prince Inn in Norwich but because he did not just then take notice of it, he will not be positive as to the place, nor can't say who was in company, nor can't say who was in company with him but he verily believes the same words which he is now about [to] depose he has heard John Inman say twenty times over and over, scilt. That he the said John Inman was in the Castle Dikes in Norwich and Anne Lulman did come to him, wither as he was pissing or walking (he can't tell which), and she cried to him, Bo, and that John Inman turned him about with his prick in his hand, and did believe... Anne Lulman saw it; and that he has heard John Inman say that John Lulman would not tell tales when he was a widower… John Inman was never in any passion when he spoke of Anne Lulman, but always spoke in a laughing manner; that John Inman said so himself as he before deposed and did not say that Ann Lulman said so of him as in interrogate… He has heard both before and after John Inman speak as above deposed… the same things from other people in and about the city of Norwich… He believes that Ann Lulman has been injured by Captain Lulman her father and other her relations stirring so much in this business; but to say which has done her the greatest injury, her own relations or John Inman he can't take upon him to judge, he has heard the captain blamed for meddling with this matter and that he had done Ann Lulman an injury and had better let it alone.
About the one and twentieth day of March last past he this deponent heard John Inman at the Castle Tavern in Norwich, he thinks 'tis in St John's parish in Norwich, speak these words or words to this purpose that he had some time before put his prick into the producent Mrs Anne Lulman's hand and that he also said that the producent was a silly jade for making so much noise of it for that it was not the first time he had served her so or had done so to her, all these words were spoken between him this deponent and John Inman: but immediately after within five or six minutes after this in the same house he said that Mrs Anne Lulman did say Bo to him John Inman at near twenty yards' distance and then there were present Mr Roland [Corbey?] and one Mr Howard a master weaver and some others that are now slipped out of his memory, but the first part of this discourse was between him this deponent and John Inman only, he having called him out of the room from the company to talk with him about this matter because he heard so much talk of it about the town and then he told him what he has above deposed and when he came into the room again then Mr John Inman told openly before all the company that Mrs Anne Lulman cried Bo to him as aforesaid at near twenty yards distance… In his opinion and thinking Mr John Inman by his discourse of Mrs Anne Lulman as above deposed did intend to defame... Anne Lulman for that he spoke in a laughing and deriding manner, and when he this deponent came into the room again to the company a little after Mr John Inman for he stayed to make water before he went into the room after he had discourses with John Inman privately as aforesaid, which might be six or five minutes and as he came into the room heard him say to the whole company as above deposed that Mrs Anne Lulman cried Bo to him, and all the company took occasion to laugh at it… The words deposed by this respondent were spoken by John Inman in Norwich, he spoke the word Bo in the parlour (he thinks 'tis called so) and the other discourse or words were spoken in the passage just entering into the parlour, 'twas about the forepart of the day as well as [he] can remember; Mr John Inman was not at all in anger or passion that he could discern but very merry and jocular; he did not at that time hear him mention one tithe that Mrs Anne Lulman had spoken such words or things of him as above deposed to the second article of the libel… He has known Mrs Anne Lulman for more than seven years and never knew any ill thing by her but believed her to be a virtuous young gentleman… Mrs Ann Lulman's reputation is lessened by Mr John Inman's words and discourse of her for that really he himself has not the same esteem and value for her that he had before, and as for others' opinions of the matter he can't answer… He only heard (but if he was to lose his life he can't say from whom) that Mr John Inman had shamefully exposed himself to Mrs Anne Lulman in the Castle Dikes in Norwich putting down his breeches and then opening his coat and showing her his privities... and that he had heard so about a day or two before he met him at the Castle as above deposed... and 'twas the occasion of his this respondent's calling Mr John Inman out of the room to discourse with him about it… He believes Mrs Anne Lulman's reputation is now diminished and lessened by Mr John Inman (that he in his soul believes) and as to other people's opinions whether Captain Lulman has injured his daughter's reputation by stirring in this matter he is not able to judge which it had been best to have let it rested or to have it prosecuted; he has heard some people commend the Captain and others discommend him for prosecuting this matter.
He has not been often in Mr John Inman's company, but those time he hath been with him, he never saw the least insincerity by him... As he does now think twas the month of March four years ago (to the best of his knowledge) he did see Mrs Ann Lulman in the said producent Mr Inman's company at Trowse and he did not see any incivility in the said producent, he might salute her for ought he knows but he took no notice whether he did or did not; or that there was any other familiarity between the producent Mr Inman and Mrs Ann Lulman than there was between any there of the company, there was eight of us in the room together, five men and three women, only that he remembers Mr Inman brought the three women up into the room where we was at Trowse… He has known Mr Inman these ten years last past... but he never was in Mrs Ann Lulman's company before or since he saw her at Trowse… The meeting at Trowse... was by chance for he remembers that just we, the five men, lighted off our horses at trowse the three women came by together in the street and either his brother John Bursen (who was one of the five men) or else Mr John Inman or both asked the women to come in... he remembers the three women did go to the house in Trowse to be an idiot as interrogated and he this repsondent and one Mr Hazel who was also another of the five men followed the women but nobody else did follow them.
He never heard any ill of the producent before the noise of this difference between him and Mrs Ann Lulman and has known Mr Inman and has been acquainted with him these seven years last past and upward but never before the noise of this business ever heard anything amiss of Mr Inman… In the spring of the year... now tis about four or five years ago he was in company with the producent and Mrs Ann Lulman at the Sign of the White Horse in Trowse and Mr Inman carried himself very civilly towards Mrs Ann Lulman and does believe they were formerly acquainted with each the other, for that Mr Inman and did usher Mrs Lulman and two other women into the room where he this deponent then was at trowse in company of Mr Inman and two or three more gentlemen… The meeting of Mrs Ann Lulman and the two other women at trowse was merely by accident for [illegible] this respondent and the other gentlemen who [were there] with him had been riding out to take the air and came home again by Trowse which they never designed to do when they first went out [rest?] as they came to the White Horse and [meeting?] Mrs Lulman and the other two women with her and they sat on their horses and then went into the chamber of the said house. And then Mr Inman then went and brought the three women into the room as aforesaid and did he believes salute and talk with and drink to all of them but there did nothing but what was modest and civil.