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Roland Wheler attached to answer William Bott

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The plaintiff exhibits that hitherto he has lived in good reputation and estimation among his fellows as a liege subject of the queen within the counties of Stafford, Warwick, Worcester and Northampton, filling divers creditable and lucrative offices within the same, when the defendant, envious of his prosperity and with a view to detraction of his (plaintiff's) good name, did on the 25th of October, 5 Elizabeth I., at Stratford in the hearing of many utter the following scandalous words,--"William Bott, thou art a false harlott, a false vyllayne and a rebellyon, and I wyll make the to be sett on the pyllory," by which he is greatly damnified, c. Damages laid at fourty marks