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(15.) " Itm. Whether dyd Reynold Kirke Thomas Rawlynson 

 and others gyve unto Willm. Beard a pece of ground in the 

 sayd herbage called Half a Neyghbourshipp to maynteyn them 

 geynst the Quenes Ma"*, and ageynst the sayd Godfrey, and to 

 thentent that the sayd Beard should from tyme to tyme send 

 them ydill ryotouse p'sons to assyste them in there yll doinge ? 



(16.) " Itm. Dyd Raulphe Mellour, Reynold Kyrke, Richard 

 Kyrke, Otwell Kyrke, Thomas Rawlynson w' a great nomber 

 of others aforesayd riotouslye assemble and mete together 

 in the Forest of the Highe Peake to consult to mayntene there 

 wicked enterpryses, and soe about the tenthe daye of June last 

 paste marched on to a place called Bakewell — Howe many they 

 were in nomber, what weapons they and every of them had, 

 and what was there p'pose, to do at Bakewell, and with whom 

 had they conference there, and to what entent and purpose ? 



" Itm. Whether Edward Kyrke would have hyred and gyven 

 money to anye p'son to have burned a howse of the sayd Godfrey 

 Bradshawe in the sayd Chinleys or not, and how you knowe 

 the same to be trewe? 



" Itm. Whether the sayd Thomas Rawlynson Willm Ridge 

 Thomas Bowdon Reynold Kyrke and others doe suffer xxi 

 p'cells of the ground to be taken in '", the sayd (herbage) or 

 thereabouts, and whether they suffer them all to stand excepte 

 one p'cell taken in by the sayd Godfrey, and whether they 

 Riotouslye uphold and mayntayne, and in what sorte they mayn- 

 tayne, the same with howe many p'sons, and what weapons 

 have they, and what want they soe to doe ? 



" Itm. Howe many tymes Edward Kyrke Reynold Kirke 

 Edward Shower Nichs Aston Thomas Thomas Lomys Anthony 

 Barber and the other have riotouslye assembled and gathered 

 grete stores of money to meynteyn there unlawfull doings and 

 what is the cause they be doe? 



(19.) {Erased). 



(20.) " Itm. Whether Edward Bradshawe beinge appoynted 

 officer to serve the sayd Warrants came to Heyfild to attache the 

 said Thomas Rawlinson, Thomas Bawdon, Otwell Bawdon 



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