Archdeaconry Depositions (ERO D/ABD2)

1.2.1621 (Thursday 1 February 1621)

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to the twenty second article she said and deposed that one night the articulate Nath Hatley being in bed in the articulate Isabel Collin's house she the said Isabel after her husband was gone to bed went with this deponent into his the said Hatley's chamber and would have had him to rise out of his bed and offered to pull the clothes from off the bed and so striving with him the candle fell down and went out then she bade this deponent go down and light it and bring it again which she saith she did and when she had brought up the candle again she set it down and went away into the hall leaving her still pulling the clothes from off the said Hatley and within half an hour after or thereabouts they came both down together into the hall without a candle light he being bare legged and there she caused some meat to be fried and the y did eat it and further she does not know to depose