Archdeaconry Depositions (ERO D/ABD2)

1.2.1621 (Thursday 1 February 1621)

document 701525

(now return to previous hand) to the fifth and sixth articles of the said allegations she said and deposed that the articulate Thos Jones is a capital and a great enemy of the articulate Isabel Collins as she is verily persuaded and further she deposeth that one day her master Wm Collin asked this deponent whether she did ever hear her dame say that she would cut his throat and this deponent answered no and the day following this deponent and the articulate Thos Jones sitting together by the fireside she told him that her master did ask her if she did not hear her dame say that she would cut his throat and that she answered him she did not and then the said Jones replied again unto her and said why did'st not thou say as thy master would have had thee for then he would have thought better of thee and further she does not know to depose