172 The Society’s MSS. Chiseldon, &e. 
yeard landes entred in and uppon your orators possession and him thereof 
wrongfullie desseased and by reason your orator hath not the possession of 
the said writinges [&c.] he can not sufficientlie sett downe a courte of accion 
againste the said Edith [&c.] for the recoverie of the said moytie [kc.] 
George Horde. 
Then follows the writ, dated 10th February, 35 Elizabeth (A.D. 
1592-3) addressed to Roger Garrard, John Hycchecock and William 
Lavyngton, gentlemen, to examine the said Edith and Ralph, &c., 
which was returned by Roger Garrard, and William Lavington, 
28th August, 35 Elizabeth. 
In the examination or answer of the said Edith and Ralph 
annexed they say that the matter of the bill is devised to put them 
to trouble, the complainant knowing them “to be but pore and of 
meane estate, and he himself a man of wealth and greter coun- 
tenuance,” &c. The said 
Edith Hollowey for herself saith that longe tyme before the said Raphe 
Cawly gentleman father . . . was seazed of and in the mannor of 
Highwey in the said bill of complaint mencioned that is to say about one 
hundred yeres past one John Overton grandfather unto this defendant . . . 
tenement and of three yard landes in Highwey mencioned the moytie of which 
three yard landes this said defendant thinkenge to be the moytie in the bill of 
complaint mencioned and so died therof sesed [after] whose decease the said 
thre yard landes with thappurtenaunces desended and came as of right the 
same ought to desend and come unto one Roberte Overton as the sonne and 
heire of the said John . . . Roberte Overton therinto entred and was 
therof seased accordingly and died therof seazed by and after whose decease 
the said thre yard landes with thappurtenaunces desended and came [| &c.| unto 
this defendant Edith and unto one Edith Elington hir sister deceased as to 
the daughters and heires of the said Roberte Overton by force whereof they 
the said this defendant Edith [and Edith] hir sister into the said three yarde 
landes entred and were therof seased accordingly and being therof so seazed 
in and about the fower or fifte yere of the raigne of the late kinge of famous 
memory Edward the sixth the said defendant Edith and Edith her sister 
together with John Hollowey the husband of this said defendant and Thomas 
Plumer husband of the said Edith her sister [as lawful to them] was made 
particion of the said [messuage] and thre yard landes as by due order and 
course of the lawe they might doo and the same was quietly occupied and 
enjoyed ever since the said particion made untell nowe of latte that 
hath disturbed the quyett possession of the nowe defendant she the nowe 
defendant havinge enjoyed the same by the space of thresckore years or 
theraboutes havinge as the nowe defendant thenk nothinge to doe with 
the demeasnes fees rentes and profittes of the said mannor of Highway for 
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