156 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
they had sett vp the same Image in the seyd Mancion House of the seyd 
Compleynauntes in such lyke sorte as the same stode in the seyd Churche of 
Puryton as ys vntruely surmysed in the seyd aunswer / For the seyd Com- 
pleynauntes sey that the seyd Image was leyd in a wolle house of theyrs beyng 
at the seyd Mancion House by the meanes and occasion of the seyd Churche 
Warden and John Ware Constable there / Without that that the seyd lease 
made by the seyd late Abbott and Covent of the seyd late Monasterye of 
Malmesbury mencioned in the seyd bill of Compleynt ys not no neuer was 
of any effycacye or strenght in the lawe. / Or that lyuerey of seysen was 
neuer gyuyn therof by the seyd John Frankleyn clerke and John Precye nor 
by eyther of them as ys alsoe vntruely surmysed in the seyd Aunswer / For 
the seyd Compleynauntes seyen that the seyd John Precy beyng named and 
auctoryzed Attorney by vertue of the seyd dede indentid to delyuer possession 
and seysen of and in the premyssez to the seyd Rychard Margarett Ambrose 
Edmond Isabell and Gyles dyd execute the same accordyngly in due forme 
e the lawe / without that that the same lyuerey of seyseyn avayleth not to 
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wylle of the seyd Defendaunt and not by & any Tease b or -laufull interest. / Or 
that they vppon any dyscharge therof gyuyn vnto them by the seyd Defen- 
daunt dyd clerely gyue vp the same xix acres or any parcell therof into the 
handes of the seyd Defendaunt at any Court holden at Puryton aforseyd in — 
the presence of any persons there or other wyse as ys moost od 
surmysed in the seyd Answer. / Or that the seyd Defendaunt hath permytted 
or gyuyn vnto the seyd Compleynauntes for euery theyr lodes of wodde 
demaunded asmoche as xvj oxen could drawe awey / for the seyd Compleyn- 
auntes sey that they neuer put mo oxen to drawe any lode of wodde there 
but only viij'" oxen to a lode onles yt were vp the stepe of an high hyll there for 
then the seyd Compleynauntes and other neyghbours there as is vsed through _ 
England vse to ioyne ij teames togeyther oon to helpe an other vntyll it be 
drawen to the top of the hyll. / Without that that the seyd Defendaunt hat 
doon hys endeueraunce for to haue caused the seyd trees mencyoned in thi 

