Gender and Defamation in York 1660-1700

John Baycock esquire v. Priscilla wife of Charles Farnell

Reference: DC.CP.1668/2

Year: 1668

Plaintiff: male

Defendant: female

Defamatory words:

[speaking to John's mother] Never any of my sonnes shaved their heades for the French pocke as thine did; I meane thy sonn the barber and thou helped to cure him thereof

Tagged: pox