Chancery Depositions (PRO C24/297 part 2 no 80 depositions: Rosse v Harlakenden)

13.2.1623 (Thursday 13 February 1623)

document 17700601

five that Jn Parker named in this interrogatory was produced at the said trial for a witness on the behalf of the said Rich Harlakenden and gave evidence accordingly on the said Harlakenden's part affirming the said court rolls or some of them so produced to be true which the said judges and chiefly the said lord Hobart observing did sift the business very narrowly and took the said Parker in his said evidence and reproving him sharply said he was a very bad fellow and required him to depart out of the court and did not accept of the said evidence then given by him the said Parker for that there was a verdict in writing then and there showed forth by the tenants directly contrary to the evidence which he then gave upon his oath unto which verdict in the said Parker had set his hand and as for that other all this deponent saith that it went upon the said Abbott his side