160 The Society’s MSS. Chiseldon, &c. 
messuages and copiehold and customarye landes and tenementes which were 
and are demysed and demysable by coppie of court roll accordinge to the 
custome of the said mannor, But this defendaunt saith, That wheras the said 
complainaunt doth alleadge in her said bill of complaint, that the said_ 
customarye or coppiehold tenements are and tyme out of mynde have byne 
demysed and demysable by coppie of court roll accordinge to the custome of 
the said mannor unto any personne or personnes that will take the same for 
one two or three lives in possession or for two lives in revercion of one liffe in 
possession, This said defendaunt thereunto saith that shee hath byne verye 
ereddablely informed and averreth and beleeveth it to be true that the custome 
of the said mannor is not as the said complainant hath alleadged the same in 
her said bill, But this defendaunt averreth and verye thinketh it to be true 
that the custome of the said mannor is that the same copiehold tenementes 
are granted by coppie of court roll accordinge to the custome of the said 
mannor, for two lives only and no more That is to saye for one liffe in 
possession and one in revercion, and not for more then one liffe in revercion, 
and this defendaunt saith that shee doth not knowe whether the said Raphe 
Calley did graunt the copiehold tenementes with thappurtenaunces in the said | 
bill mencioned to have byne in the occupacion of Robert Jeoffery to the said 
complainaunt and Suzan her syster in the said bill named for terme of their 
lives, for it seemeth by the date of the supposed coppie therof in the bill 
mencioned if any such coppie were graunted that it was longe before this 
defendaunt had any thinge to doe with the said mannor and premysses 
neither is the said supposed coppie inrolled in any [of] the court rolls or court 
bookes of the said mannor which came to this defendaunts hands after the 
decease of the said John Calley this defendaunts husband, but if the same or 
any such coppie were graunted as the said complainaunt hath supposed, Yett 
neverthelesse this defendaunt taketh it not to be materiall unto this defendaunt 
whether the same coppie were granted or no, beinge graunted in such manner 
and forme as the said complainant hath alleadged in her said bill and not 
beinge graunted accordinge to nor warranted by the custome of the said 
mannor and so is void by the custome of the said mannor as this defendaunt 
verely thinketh And this defendaunt saeth that shortelie after the decease 
of the wife of the said Roberte Jeoffryes this said defendaunte entred uppon 
parte of the said coppihowld tenemente accordinge to the custome of the said 
mannor as this defendaunte thinketh it was lawfull for her to doe and doth 
lawfullie refuse and denie to admitte the said complainaunte tenaunt to the 
said coppihowld tenemente havinge noe good title therunto as this defendaunte 
conceaveth And this defendaunte was in lawfull and quiett possession 
accordinglie, And after the feast of St. Michaell the Archaingell now last past 
(at which tyme the interest of the executors yere belonginge to the executor 
of the said widdowe of the said Roberte Jeoffryes was ended) this defendaunt 
peaceablie and quietly entred and claymed and ought to enjoye the residue 
of the said coppiehowld tenemente. But the said complainaunte being a 
woman of a furious and violente unwoemanlike spirite and disposition and 
havinge gathered to herselfe a companye of violent and ruffianlike ill disposed 
personnes hath with force and violence disturbed this defendaunte and made 
forceble and violente entries into and uppon the said tenemente and greatly 
a desedy Seceh boa 
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