Case for malicious prosecution
Let go without day. Now the said B. in fact says that he was entirely
clear & innocent of feloniously taking & carrying away out of the [?]
aforesaid the goods aforesaid and that by means of the said [A.] false
& malicious oath & complaint aforesaid he hath suffered imprison-
ment for the [?] of ____ days as aforesaid & was obliged to find
[?] for his appearance as aforesaid & thereby he hath suffered
great ignominy & [?] & hath left much time & is entirely de-
prived of the means of getting into [?].
No. 32
Charging the [?] with fornication & adultery wherby she lost her marriage
Case for words
Attach A. of ____ to answer to B. of ____ in a plea of trespass of the case for
that whereas the said B. now is a virgin & chaste woman & from the time
of her nativity hath been so & hath been accounted esteemed & reputed a-
mongst good honest & prudent persons as well her neighbors as other leige
subjects of ours to be of a good name & character honest behaviour & conversa-
tion & hath all her life time hitherto lives & continued untouched & unsus-
pected of the atrocious crimes of adultery & fornication or either of them or
any such like enormous crimes & by means thereof several young men of
good name & character have at several times desired to take the said B. to be
their wife and in particular one C. of ____ to whom the said B. before the
speaking & publishing some of the false and scandolous words hereafter
mentioned of & concerning the said B. was lawfully outpublished never-
theless the said A. of her mere wicked malice had [ag.] the said B. contriv-
ing & maliciously intending not only to ingue the said B. & detract her
in her good name character & reputation & to bring her into infamy
& disgrace & (as much as in her [lay?]) to deprive her of her marriage
with the said C. but also to subject her to undergo the penalties & pu-
nishements that are provided by the law of this [?][ag.] adultery &
fornication on the ____ day of ____ at ____ in the [?] & hearing
of [?] of our subjects loudly & publikly spoke & repeated pronoun-
ced & published of the said B. then & yet being a [?] unmarried pure
chaste woman these following [?] scandalous & lying words [?] that
she (meaning the said B.) was a whore to a man that courted her (meaning
the said B.) & of her further malice on the ____ day of ____ at ____ with
EN