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(seq. 41)
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 imprisonment 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 deprived 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 amongst good honest & prudent persons as well her neighbors as other leige subjects of ours to be of a good name & character honest behaviour & conversation & hath all her life time hitherto lives & continued untouched & unsuspected 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 nevertheless the said A. of her mere wicked malice had [ag.] the said B. contriving & 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 & punishements 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 pronounced & 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
(seq. 42)
charing the [?] with fornication & adultery whereby she lost her marriage
Case for words with an intent to deprive the [?] of her marriage with the said C. did with a loud voice & in the hearing of [diverse?] of our good subjects falsely & maliciously pronounce publish & declare that she (meaning the said B.) had an husband living in Ireland & of her further [malice?] at ____ on the ____ day of ____ with an intent to deprive the said B. of her marriage with the said C. & to make her subject to the punishment by law prescribed [ag.] fornication did with a loud voice & in hearing of [diverse?] of our [?] subjects pronounce publish & declare the following false & scandalous words of the said B. [?] that her sister's apparition (meaning the apparition of the said A's sister had that night before appeared to me (meaning the [said?] A & told me (meaning the said A) that she (meaning the said B) was a damned whore & that she (meaning the said B) had lodged with my brother (meaning the said A's brother) that night. By means of speaking proclaiming & publishing all said false scandalous & [opprobrious?] words the said B hath fallen into comtempt infamy & scandal with several worthy persons subjects of [?] with whom she was before that time in great favor & esteem & of good credit & reputation & also the said C. who hath sollicited her in marriage & to whom she was out published as aforesaid hath thereby since neglected & utterly refused to marry the said B. & still [continuette?] so to do whereby the said B. hath not only lost her credit & reputation but hath also lost her [preferment?] by marriage.
(seq. 43)
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(seq. 44)
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(seq. 45)
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