Quarter Sessions Rolls (ERO Q/SR105/24)

11.3.1588 (Monday 11 March 1588)

document 20200645

"woe unto Kendall that ever he was born he keeps his wife so lustily she makes him wear the horn but what is he the better or what is he the worse she keeps him like a cuckold with money in his purse" the witnesses which heard this rhyme made by one Jn Brand are Nich Ashefelde Jn Hatch Edw Read and Chas Huntsman " these words above written I heard him speak and hath also rebuked him for them and Kendall hath beaten his wife for them" this 11.3.1588 mark Humph Bracke