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more kept bym selff prively yn the wooddes of the forest of Selwodd 

 and somtyrae comyng to the seid Hartgilles house yn the nyght 

 tyrae, and ymediatly after Webbe fledde oute of the coutrey for 

 V or vj yeres and was not seen yn the countrey ageyn by all that 

 space, for this deponent contynued yn the service of Hartgyll ij 

 yeres next after the seide felonye comytted. The deponent was 

 also arrested by a warraunt made by the Lord Stourton, and put 

 yn stockes by the space of half a day immediatly after th'assises 

 by the procurement of Hertgill, and there was compelled to fynde 

 ny we sureties and paide for his fees iiijs. vjd. Further, on Sonday 

 last past he delyvered a lettre from S' Giles Strangwayes and other 

 the Kinge's Comissioners to William Hartgill for his apparaunce 

 before them apon these causes, wherapon Hartgill saide to him 

 ' Iff thou wyn by this, thou shalt never lose by no bargayn that 

 ever thou shalt make.' 



" Thomas Rastall of Stavordell said, that Webbe who was an 

 arrant theffe, when he came back yn to the countrey kept him 

 selffe prively in the day tyme and was supported in the bowse of 

 the said Hartgill yn the night tyme, wherapon the seid Mr. Richard 

 Zouche did send this deponent with on Edward Morice and others 

 to apprehend the eeide Webbe being then yn the housse of Hartgill, 

 wherappon hering that Webb used to be every mornyng yn the 

 Holt adjoyning to the forrest of Selwodd, they went to siche place as 

 they supposed the seide Webbe wold goo towardes the Holt, 

 thynking that oon of them shuld fetche the constable of Kylmyng- 

 ton to assist theym, and ther goyng yn ther way they mett with 

 Webb, and then this deponent saide to him ' I arrest the of felonye,' 

 and with that the seide Webbe turned from hym and drew oute 

 his swerd and buckler and cast a foyne at hym backward wherewith 

 he strake this deponent through the cote under his arme, and then 

 this deponent and his felowes didd take Webb and lefte him to his 

 other felowes, under arrest. 



" Edward Morice of Stavordell saith that when Webb was arrested 

 Hartgill came with divers other persons to the number of xiiij, 

 with bowes and arrowes and oder wepons, and som of theym beyng 

 harnysed, did forcibly take a way the seide Webbe from this depo- 



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