That about a year and a half since and in one of the months arlate… Simon Wells... coming to this deponent’s house situated in Bury St Edmunds called the sign of the King’s Arms where this deponent then dwelt, and the arlate George Chid being in the back side of the stable there where the said Simon Wells Doctor of Divinity alighted of… his horse the said Chid took occasion to tell the said Dr Wells that he was once or twice by Shimpling men for their [illegible] whereunto the said Dr Wells replied that it was a lie, which the said Chid not seeming to digest said unto the said Dr Wells in raging and angry manner that he lied, and the said Dr Wells telling the said George Chid that he was overthrown by such witnesses as the said Chid himself was, whereunto the said Chid further said that the said witnesses were as good and honest men as he the said Dr was, and that he the said Dr Wells was but a blacksmith’s son, with many other disgraceful and uncivil words touching the said Dr Wells, which were spoken in the place aforesaid in the presence of this deponent and others, and… that Robert Wiboron his contest then also present and took the horse of the said Dr (being at that time this deponent’s ostler)… That the words aforesaid were spoken upon a Monday between 11 and 12 o’clock in the forenoon.
That the arlate Mr Simon Wells Dr of Divinity and for these many years last has been and at this present is Rector of the parish Church of Shimpling and a Minister in holy orders… That about a year and a half since and as he remembreth in the month of August… the arlate Simon Wells clerk alighting of his horseback at the back side of this deponent’s then master’s house situated in Bury St Edmunds commonly called the sign of the King’s Arms, and the arlate George Chid being then and there unto the said Child told the said Dr Wells arlate of some passages which had happened between him the said Mr Dr and Shimpling men... and the said Mr Dr denying the same the said George Chid told the said Mr Dr Wells in disgraceful and railing manner that he lied and bared a turd in his teeth and said that he the said Chid was as good a man as he the said Dr Wells was for that the said Dr Wells had but a blacksmith to his father and that he the said Chid was an honest man.