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Edmond hymself and oon Bradeley his seruante haue brokyn opyn the 
-seyd pound and putt out the seyd cattall / And also oon John Bridges and 
James More seruauntes to the seyd Sir Edmond and by his commandement 
at ij or iij seuerall tymes haue entred into the courte of your seyd subiectes 
-wyth a hand gun and then and there dyd shote and kyll with the seyd gun 
_ the hennes and capons of youre seyd subiectes and dayly shoteth at his doves 
and pultry And also he the seyd John Brydges dyd shote a pellett out of the 
‘seyd gun into youre seyd subiectes kechyn by reason wherof youre seyd 
-supplyauntes ne eyther of them dare not abyde in theyr seyd house for daunger 
_ of theyr lyves / And yet the seyd Sir Edmond not so contentyd of his further 
malycyous mynd sythen youre seyd subiectes cam from theyr seyd house 
_hathe caused his seruauntes to put his horsez into the seuerall pasterz and 
corne feydes of your seyd supplyauntes to eate and dystroye theyr corne and 
gresse and doyth manesse and threpen your seyd supplyauntes seruauntes 
‘that they ne any of them dare not dryve ne putt the seyd borsez out of the 
corne and gresse of your seyd supplyauntes / 
And also the seyd Sir Edmund Brydgys of hays further malycious 
-mynde and develyshe intent aboute thexth daye of Marche last past [10th 
March, 1547-8] hath procured and caused oon Henry Brydges hys brother 
‘and hys Berewarde to cum and entre into a certein pasture called Wynde- 
-myll Hyll beying parcell of the premyssez where as your seyd subiectes 
kyne and theyr calues were then and there pasturyng and to take oon 
ealfe of your seyd subiectes and to cutt the tayle of the same calue hard 
by the rompe and to stone or cutt of the ereis of the same calue nere by 
the hedde and also to cutt of the clawes of the fete of the same calue. / 
And further the seyd Sir Edmunde Brydges hath at dyuerz and sundry tymes 
nowe of late caused and commaunded hys seyd Bereward and dyuerz other 
of hys seruauntes to lede and brynge a beyre of hys into the seyd pasture 
ed Wyndemyll Hyll and the same persons dyd there lett the same beyre 
e@ and putt grett dogges at the same beyre so that by reason therof iij of 
seid subiectes kyne beyng then there in the same pasture and beyng 
it with calues dyd not only cast theyr calues but also the same kyne and 
es dyd then within iij or iiij dayes next ensuyng dye vppon such euyll 
dlyng fere and chacyng as they then had by reason of the seyd beyre and 
ges so then beyng in the same pasture to the damages of your subiectes 
of iiij poundes. / Also oon Jamys Moore and other of the seruantes of the 
d Sir Edmund Brydges haue nowe lately to wytte aboute the xxvjth daye 
Februarye last past [26th February, 1547-8] by the procurement of the 

es which welle dyd serue hys seyd house aswell to brewe bake and to 
sse mete with all as for all other necessarye thynges in the same house 
/ so that by occasion therof the water of the same welle was clene 
‘oyed vntyll the tyme your seyd subiectes dyd clene the same welle ayen./ 
nd furthermore where as oon John Ware Wylliam Webbe and John 
vevyng dyd at the request of your seyd subiectes nowe of late lye in hys seyd 
se at such tyme as he was absent from the same the seyd Sir Edmund 
Brydges hath nowe of late so threpened and manassed them that they ne 
