case GOUCH against Buxton Qure whether the spiritual court can take cognizance  for say to a parson you be a rascal a scoundrel fellow and will swear anything  motion for a prohibition the plaintiff in the spiritual court be a parson and  the defendant say to he these word thou art a saucebox sirrah a rascal and  scoundrel fellow and will make a affidavit to anything modern report wield  sergeant a prohibition ought not to go for to say a man will swear anything be  a great scandal much more to say so of a clergyman and cite roll Abr keb Lutw  lev keb march Rep page contra these word import matter of heat and not of  scandal and they only show the opinion his client have of he at that time holt  chief justice suppose the word in this libel have be speak of a layman can he  have have a action No then how the more for his be a clergyman for the word do  not touch he immediate in his office to say a parson be a rascal be no more  than to call he rascal a see Musgrave v Bovey that the spiritual court can  take cognizance of the word you be a old rogue and a rascal and a contemptible  fellow despise and bear by everybody say by one parson to another parson stram  a Powell justice there be a difference between defame a parson and a layman  but then it ought to be something for which he may be draw in question in the  ecclesiastical court b see Inst     Fitzherbert n b Lutw bunb stram Com dig  prohibition g b he say he remember a case in the common plea for call a parson  pimp and they will not grant a prohibition for that the word pimp have a  common and know signification and the like in call a layman so in the first  word here there be nothing scandalous and then it add you will make a  affidavit to anything this do not charge he with any act which can draw he  into question thereof powys justice here be no colloquium of his function and  the word import only heat suppose he have say you will murder a man this be  only the opinion he have of he c gold justice remember the word pimp be  adjudge to be one who procure woman but he think in this case that take the  whole together they import a great scandal and afterward Powell justice desire  time to consider of it for all the book make a difference between defame a  parson and a layman which holt chief justice say he see no reason for for the  character and conscience of other man be as tender and of as great concern to  they as a parson but Powell justice say to call a parson knave a prohibition  have be deny c see roll Abr Lutw side and the case of Nelson v Hawkins Mod S c  holt S c comy Rep S c ld ray c but no doubt but it will be grant in a layman  case Adjournatur