Gender and Defamation in York 1660-1700

Mountague Gyles v. Catherine Harrison

Reference: DC.CP.1672/1

Related cases: DC.CP.1672/4, DC.CP.1672/2

Year: 1672

Plaintiff: male

Defendant: female

Defamatory words:

he was a whoremaster and whoremasterly rogue; and he would needs have ravished her or committed rape upon her

Tagged: rape, rogue, whoremaster