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‘most vntrue dealing with pore men causith them to refreyne and not to 
work with the said Pleyntyffes which before tyme they have done only for 
feare because the said pleyntyffes being farmors of the said manor before the 
coming of the said Sir Edmund Briges to the same as aforesaid did rule and 
had in most bounden subiection all or most part of the tenauntes of the said 
lordship wher now they [ar] desierose to please and doo their dew seruice to 
the said Sir Edmound the said Pleyntyffes repyning and grudgyng greatly at 
same haue made and caused this most sclaunderose and vntrue bill 
» be made And without that the said Defendaunt at any tyme causid his 
gottes being but ij to be put into any the corne of the said Pleyntyffes or that 
y at any tyme came into any parcell of the corne Or that yf they were or 
eame thither that the said Pleyntyffes had euer any maner of occacion given 
vhie they shuld feare their livis in putting or chasing the saide gootes oute 
f the saide corne nor that the said ij gootes had bin in the said corne that 
nerby the Pleyntyffes had or cold haue any such hinderaunce or grett losse 
srin as most vntruly is alleagid for that the said Defendaunt hath not had 
said ij gottes aboue fortnight next before Whytsontyde last past And 
shout that the said Defendaunt ys gyltie of any ryott force or other mysde- 
anour supposed to be done by the said Defendaunt in the said bill of 
mmpleynt And without that any other matters in the said most sclaunderose 
1 not traversed nor confessid and avoided nor awnswerid vnto is true in 
” 
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Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 
Bundle I., No. 39. 
‘The [replicaci]on of Bennett Jey and Isabell hys wyf[e to the awnsw]er 
of Sir Edmund Brydges Knyght 
‘The seyd compleynauntes sey that the byll of compleynt ys certen true 
flyeyent in the Lawe to be aunswerid vnto and that the matters therin 
ned ar not sclaunderously sett [forth] by the seyd Compleynauntes to 
y such intent and purpose as in the seyd answer ys vntruely surmysed. / 
d further seyen in all and euery thyng as they before haue seyd in theyr 
1 byll of Compleynt and doo auerre and maynteyn all and euery thyng 
yall therein comprised to be good and true in mauer and forme as in 
same byll ys declared. / Without that that the seyd Browne named in the 
| Aunswer or any of the seruauntes of the seyd Compleynauntes dyd 
le the seyd Image of Seynt George out of the seyd Church of Puryton as 
Jaunderously and malicyously surmysed for the seyd Compleynauntes 
hat oon of the Church Wardens of the same Churche of Puryton 
the seyd Image to be brought to the seyd Mancion House of the seyd 
pley nauntes / the seyd Compleynauntes then beyng absent from the 
house for that that the seyd Benett Jey was an other of the Churche 
eyns of thesame Churche. / Without that that the seyd Brown or any of the 
tes of the seyd Compleynauntes vppon any examynacion confessed any 
: 
h takyng or steylyng of the seyd Image as ys vntruely surmysed. / Or that 
