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knowen a naturall foole but considering the naughtie act done by them he — 
sent his seruauntes with a crowne of v’ to the said Pleyntyffes to recompence 
them for their calf which was but ij dayes old not worth soo moch money to 
all mensiudgment Or that the said Defendaunt at any tyme hath comaunded 
or cawsed his said bereward or any other his servauntes to leade or bring 
any beare of his into the same pasture called Wyndmyli Hyll or that any 
such bere was thither brought to the knowleadge of the said Defendaunt at 
any tyme or that the same beere was ther lett loose or that any dogges were 
ther put to him or that any such act or thing was done by reason wherof the 
said Pleyntyffes [kyne] in the same pastur being great with calf dyd cast 
their calvis Or that any such kyne and calvis diedd within iij or iij daies by 
such meanis as is also vntruly declared or that the said Pleyntyffes by reason 
of any such thing susteyned any damage losse or hinderaunce Or that Jamys 
More or any other the seruauntes of the said [Defendaunt] abought the 
xxv'" day of Februarie last past by the procurement of the said Sir Edmound 
or otherwise to his knowleage did cast downe or carie into a well of the said 
Pleyntyffes one cart loode of doung or any other thing or that any such act 
was done wherby the water in the said well was destroied or that for the same | 
the said Pleyntyffes neded to clense hit. Nor that the said Defendaunt hath — 
at any tyme feared or thretenyd John Ware William Webb and John Wevyng 
soo that by any such meanis they have refreyned to come or lie in the house 
of the said Pleyntyffes but that yf such restrayning be by the said parties 
hit is onlie by the naughtie and divelyshe demeaning of the said Pleyntyffes — 
specyally the said Isabell whose detestable condicions ar openlie knowen to | 
all the cuntrey Nor that the said Ware Webb and Weving doo wythdrawe 
them sealvis for fearre of ther lyvis from the house of the said Pleyntyffes” 
nor that any suche occacion hath ever byn [g}|yven by the said defendaunt 
or any other his seruantes as vntruly is alleagid And without that the said 
Defendaunt hath so manassed the said Pleyntyffes seruauntes that they dare 
not go abought the necessarie businesse of the said Pleyntyffes Or that the 
said Defendaunt hath by any such meanis occasioned the said Pleyntyffes 
hynderaunce of the seruice in husbandrie of his seruauntes or that they have 
anye cause of feare of bodelie hurt mynystred at the said Defendauntes 
handes or by his procurement or sufferaunce Or that the said Defendaunt 
doth or at any time hath manassed any laborers or workmen coming to the — 
said compleynauntes being other their neighbors or other foreiners or that by 
any such meanis the pleyntyffes haue lost and susteyned hinderaunce in 
their work or that any such laborers or workmen dare not work 
with the said Compleynauntes for feare of their livis or that any 
such oceacion hath bin to them given by the said Defendaunt as — 
in the said bill most vntrulie is alleagid Nor that by reason of any 
manassing the said Compleynauntes ar anything hinderyd of the 
having of their neybours or adioyment [of] laborers to work with them or — 
travell in their necessarie doinges Or that in harvest tyme next comyng — 
the said Pleyntyffes shall have or susteyne any maner of hinderaunce by the — 
said Defendaunt as vntrulye by them ys alleagid But yf any such preiudice 
or hinderaunce or like myshapp chaunce to the said Pleyntyffes it ys and — 
~ wilbe onlie by ther owne procurement and purchasse for that their evell and _ 
