ABSTRACT
That this deponent well knows Mrs Winifred Bave, and first came to her by her taking a lodging at the house of Mr Thomas Plummer, a fan stick maker, next door to the Kings Arms in Great Wild Street, near Lincolns Inn Fields, about a year since, where she lodged about two months ending in or about August, 1714 (she the deponent being a servant to Thomas Plummer during all the said time). And sayeth that one Mr Talbot Clark also lodged in the said house for the same time, and he lay with his brother, Sir Clement Clark, who hath a place under the Queen. And farther sayeth that about 11 or 12 of the clock at night within the time aforesaid she, the deponent, was waiting for Sir Clement Clark’s coming in and then heard Mr Talbot Clark come downstairs from his own chamber to the door of the back parlour where Winifred lay and also heard her, Winifred, open the door and let Mr Clark into the parlour, and thereupon she, the deponent, went into the yard and looked into the parlour through the glass window, and then and there saw Mr Clark pull off his nightgown and go into the bed to Winifred Bave, who hath then no clothes on but his shirt, and there was then a lighted candle standing upon the table in the parlour, which candle he, Mr Clark, brought downstairs with him, which she the better knows by reason that she, the deponent, but about half an hour before such his coming down hath seen Mrs Bave go into her bed, and also hath brought away her candle out of her room; and further sayeth that about three hours afterwards he, Mr Clark, arose out of the bed from Mrs Bave and put on his nightgown and took away the candle and went up into his own chamber; and the deponent verily believes that they,
Mrs Bave and Mr Clark, did the time aforesaid commit the crime of adultery together; and the deponent once saw Mrs Bave as she was sitting in his lap. And also sayeth there was a person who came several times to see her within the time aforesaid, and at one of the said times she sent the deponent to Covent Garden market for a pot of strawberries, and the deponent at her return found her and the said person upon the bed together with their clothes on, and he was then kissing her and she told the deponent that he brought her over from Jamaica and that she loved him better than she loved her own husband, and the deponent knows that she was very uneasy about losing a letter which she declared she had wrote in order to have sent the same to the person last mentioned. And the deponent heard her ask him for her ten pounds which she had lent him, to which her replied in these or the like words, Damn you for a bitch, what a noise here is about nothing, I’ll pay you when I please.
