148 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
with force and armes riotously and ayenst your peace assembled themselfes 
togeyther at Puryton aforeseyd and then and there in foreyble maner arayed 
that is to say with staves swyrdes and other weapens of warre with force and 
armes riotously ayenst your peace dyd foreybly entre into the dwellyng house 
of your seyd oratours at Puyrton aforeseyd parcell of the premysses your 
seyd oratourz beyng bothe absent from theyr seyd house / and apon George 
Browne Jane Webbe and Agnes Symkes beyng seruantes to your seyd 
supplyantes then beyng within the seyd house in goddes peace and yours with 
force and armes riotously dyd make an assaulte and them then and there dyd 
beate and putt in danger of theyr lyves / And aftur the seyd riotous entre in 
forme aforeseyd so made the seyd riotous persons dyd breke open a wolle 
house dore of your seyd oratourz there contrary to your highnes lawes and 
peace / And the vth daye of the moneth of February last past [5th Feb., 
1547-8] aboutes mydnyght oon James More John Edward and oon Pyrry 
servauntes of the seyd Sir Edward Bridges and by his commandement at 
Puryton aforeseyd with lyke force and armes riotously and foreybly 
dyd breke and entre into the duff house of your seyd orators and 
all the dowves of your seyd orators beyng above iij° cowple then 
and there dyd kyll dystroye and feare awey to the vtter decaye and 
dystruccion of the seyd duff house / And also the seyd S' Edmond Brydges 
doyth comonly vse to put his horsez into the Courte of your seyd orators 
amonges his cattall to eate and destroye suche haye as the catall of your seyd 
oratourz be fothered with / and hath so beaten and threapened the seruantes 
of your seyd orators beyng at ploughe and aboute theyr other laufull busynes 
so that they or any of them dare scasely goo out of the house / And yet the 
seyd Sir Edmond Brydges of his further malyce at Eastur last past wold not 
suffre your seyd subiectes to resceyue suche tythes as were to them due in 
the seyd parysshe of Puryton byforce of theyr seyd indentur / but kepeth 
the same from youre seyd oratours ayenst all right and conscyence and also 
the seyd Sir Edmond Bridges hath vnlawfully entred into xix acres of land 
at Puryton aforeseyd parcell of the premysses demysed by the seyd indentur 
and the same doyth occupye and taketh the proffyttes thereof to his owne vse 
without any laufull tytle thervnto / and also where your seyd orators ought 
to haue yerely xx loodes of wood for parte of theyr fuell to be taken of and in 
the wood of Bradon aforeseyd the seyd Sir Edmond Brydges wyll not suffre 
youre seyd subiectes to fell and cary awey the seyd xx loodes ne any parte 
therof but the same doyth vtterly denye and withhold from youre seyd 
supplyauntes / and also the seyd Sir Edmond hathe caused lxx trees and moo 
to be cutt downe in oon of the seuerall pasters of youre seyd orators and 
there letteth them lye to dystroye the gresse of your seyd orators to his grete 
losse and damage / and also the Bereward and Cooke of the seyd Sir Edmond 
do dayly breke vp and cary awey the hedges of your seyd supplyauntes 
from his seuerall pasterz so that by reason therof aswell the cattall 
of the seyd Sir Edmond as the catall of other persons do eate vp 
and dystroye the corne and gresse of youre seyd subiectes to theyr 
grete losse and hyndraunce / And also at suche tymes as your seyd subiectes 
haue inpoundyd any cattall of the seyd Sir Edmondes or of any other persons — 
for suche trespassez as they haue don in theyr corne and gresse the seyd Sir — 

