Depositions & Examinations
EDC 5/1590/2 (unfol.) Lingart c Podmore
CRO
Defamation
1590
1590
Chester, Cheshire, England
Plaintiff
Sir William Lingart
male
Gentleman (Inferred)
Defendant
Sir William Podmore
male
Gentleman (Inferred)
Witness
Lawrence Philips
male
Chester, Cheshire, England
Signature
Event
A gentleman accuses another of adultery in an alehouse
November 1589
Kelsall, Cheshire, England
Components
Gossip and slander
Adultery
Mentioned Only
Fornication
Mentioned Only
Setting
Alehouse
Mentioned Only
Inferred
Statement
28 June 1590
Lawrence Philips
That in November last to his now remembrance of the time William Podmore came to get out a pieces against Sir William Lingart and openly spake and uttered these words or the like effect… that he the said Sir William lay all night in bed together with his wife in one Johnson's house of Kelsall as man and wife and that it was a shame that a man of his function should be of that disposition.