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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1232/O/63
Title"My testimony as Mr Buxton"
Date[1646]
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorThomas Sanders of Little Ireton (1610-1695), Parliamentarian soldier
Administrative HistoryHenry Buxton, commissary to Sir John Gell, was nominated by Sir John Curzon to be added to the Committee for the County of Derby. He was accused by Gell himself to the Committee for being familiar with a whore and for disclosing to her secrets of the Committee took an oath of secrecy, which oath Buxton gave them but took it not himself - the parties were both examined and could not deny the fact. Mr Buxton is not displaced for the present but all business and secrets are kept from him.
TermWomen
Prostitution
First English Civil War (1642-1646)
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