146 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
the more fortunate, accordingly, that in the pleadings, here tran- 
scribed, nothing appears to be wanting. We have the bill, the 
answer, the replication, and the rejomder. We have the in- 
terrogatories, and the depositions of witnesses thereon, in support 
of the plaintiff’s case. Then we have the King’s commission with 
interrogatories, on either side, annexed, with the Commissioners’ 
report of the depositions made before them, engrossed and returned 
with the commission. We have rebutting evidence, taken on fresh 
interrogatories, on the plaintiff's behalf, and finally a re-examination, 
on further interrogatories on the defendant’s behalf, of certain of 
the plaintiff's witnesses. 
The decree of the court is not to be found, as we have mentioned. 
In leu of it, we may perhaps be allowed to make some observations 
on the whole case hereafter. For the present it will be sufficient 
to note the extreme appositeness of the proceedings to the observa- 
tions previously made (Wilts Arch. Mag., xxx., 130-1) as to the 
effect of conventual leases. 
“To the Kyng oure mooste dred souerayn lord. 
“In mooste humble wyse shewen and complaynen ynto youre Highnes 
youre true and faythfull subiectes Benett Jeye of Puryton in youre Countye 
of Wyltes Gent’ and Isabelle hys wyfe doughtour of Rychard Pulley and 
Margaret hys wyfe deceassed That where oon Rychard then Abbott of the 
late Monastery of oure blessed lady the vyrgyn and saynt Aldelme of 
Malmesbury in youre seyd County of Wyltes’ was laufully seysed in hys 
demeane as of fee in the ryght of the seyd Monastery of and in the lordship 
of Puryton aforeseyd wyth thappurtenaunces / And the seyd Abbott so beyng 
therof seysed and the Covent of the seyd late Monastery by theyr dede in- 
dentyd sealed with the seales of the seyd Abbott and Covent beryng date the 
iiijth daye of Septembre in the vijth yere of the Reygn of youre mooste dere 
father oure late Souerayn lord Kyng Henry the viijth [4th Sept., 1515] by 
oon assente and consente Dyd demyse graunt and confyrme to the seyd 
Rychard Pulley and Margarett hys wyfe and to Ambrose Edmond Isabelle 
and Gyles chyldern of the seyd Rychard Pulley and Margarett the syte of 
the seyd Manor of Puryton wyth thappurtenances and the parsonage of 
Puryton aforeseyd wyth all Tythes and landes to the seyd scyte and parsonage 
perteynyng or belongyng And also almaner Tythes what so euer of and in 
the seyd lordship of Puryton to the offyce of the Chaumberleyn of the seyd 
late Monastery perteynyng Wyth all and syngler theyr appurtenaunces / 
Thadvouson of the vycarege there wardes maryages homages releyffes eschetes 
bondmen to the same Manor belongyng courtes and letes of the seyed Manor 
wyth all and syngler amercymentes and proffyttes what so euer extrayes 
dboue the value of vjs. viijd. fynes of landes harryettes and rentes 
i i i ee 
lasinsstntddimaate ah Stak uae tee cae 
Ser ee re dened 

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