168 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
vnto confessed and avoyded or trauersed ys true. / All which matterz the 
seyd Compleynaunttes ar redy to auerre and proue as thys honourable Court 
wyll award / And prayen as they before haued prayed in theyr seyd byll of 
Compleynt. /” 
Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 
Bundle I., No. 39. 
“The Reioyndre of Sir Edmound Brigges Knight vnto the replicacion of 
Benet Joy and Isabell hys wyffe. 
‘‘The said Defendaunt saith in all and euery thyng as before he hath said. 
and avarryd in hys said aunswer And doth averr and meynteyne all and 
every thyng materyall therin comprised to be good and true in maner 
and forme as in the said awnswer ys alleagid without that that one of 
the Church Wardens of the same Church of Puryton caused the said 
Image to be brought to the said Mancion House of the said Compleyn- 
auntes being an other of the Churchwardens as most vntruly in the 
said replicacion ys alleagid Or that the said Image was leyd in a woll 
house of the said Compleynauntes by the meanys of the said Church- 
warden and the said John Ware Cunstable ther or by their comaunde- 
ment And without that that the said John Precye was namyd and auctorised 
attorney by the said surmysed dede Indentyd to delvuer possession and seisen 
of the premyssez to the said Richard Margeret Ambrose Edmunde Elizabeth 
and Gylys or did execute the same accordingly or made any lyuery of the 
premisses to the dew forme and order of the lawe or that the said Elizabeth 
was borne at the tyme of the said surmysed lesse made or lyuery gyven Or 
that the said Defendaunt hath leyd any thyng in hys said awnswer to thentent 
to stopp parte of the many fold wronges which he hath done to the pleyntyffes 
or that he hath done any such wronges to the pleyntyffes as vuntruly is alleagid 
in the said replicacion and byll And without that the said Defendaunt hath 
confessid the beatyng of the said Browne in his Awnswer to be in such soort 
as in the said bill ys alleagyd Or that he dyd otherwise therin then he mought 
lawfully doo. And without that that any of the trees of the said Defen- 
dauntes lye in the grounde of the said Pleyntiffes in such soort as vntruly 
and falsely in the said replicacion ys alleagid Or that upon any confession 
of the Defendaunt touching the Bereward the Compleynauntes ar at any 
hynderaunce or neded to susteyne any maner losse And without that that 
the Pleyntyffes have byn glad to please the said Defendaunt or haue done 
their dew and honest seruice as becomyd them to doo to the said Defendaunt 
Or that the said Defendaunt doth mysvse or ivell entreate the same com- 
pleynauntes for any suche purpose or entent as most sclaunderosely ys 
alleagid in the said replicacion And without that that any other thyng 
materyall in the said replicacion not reioyned vnto trauersed or avoyded ys 
true All which matters &c. 
Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 
Bundle I., No. 29. 
[Zo be continued. ] 

