Gender and Defamation in York 1660-1700

Priscilla wife of Charles Farnehill v. Margery wife of John Baycock

Reference: DC.CP.1668/6

Year: 1668

Plaintiff: female

Defendant: female

Defamatory words:

she was an [outcomeling?] meane filthye baude and whore; and she and her husband kept and maintained a bawdy house for naughty & lewde people to meete together in, and there to comitt adultery or fornicacion together

Tagged: bawdyhouse, outsider, whore