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02 Purton. <A Case in the Star Chamber. 
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stopped and dystroyed yntyll the tyme the seyd pleyntiffes caused the same 
welle to be clensed or not. / and wheder the same were doon by the cum- 
mandement assent or procurement of the seyd defendaunt or not / and wheder 
ye thynke in your conscience that the seyd Sir Edward (sic) were priuey 
assentyng or agreying to the same or not. / 
‘19. Item wheder the seyd defendaunt hath so threapened and manassed 
oon Anthony Doswell beyng poore laboryng men 
which were accustomed to come and labor and to doo worke with the seyd 
pleyntyffes for theyr hyre and wages that they ne any of them dare not nowe 
come.and worke ne do any labour with the same pleyntyffes for feare of the 
dyspleasure of the seyd defendaunt or not. | 
‘*20. Item whether the seyd Sir Edmund Brydges hath stretly warned 
forbydd and monysshed oon John Ware John Wevyng and Wylliam Webbe 
who were accustomed to kepe the seyd mancion house of the seid pleyntyffes 
when they were absent that they ne any of them shuld no more lye intheseyd 
mancion house of the seyd compleynauntes ne yet kepe the same / And 
wheder the same Ware Wevyng and Webbe or any of them at any tyme 
sythen the seyd monycion kept or leyn in the same house or not. /” 
Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 
Bundle I., No. 39. 




‘“* ix. xiij? Nouembris ‘‘ Examinacio testium facta super [interrogatoriis | 
An’ secundo H, vj". [13th per Benedictum Jey ministratis. 
Noy., 1548. | 
“* Joun Messencer of Puriton in the [county] of Wiltes’ yoman of thage 
of xlij yeres [and] aboue sworne, «ce. 
‘To the first second iij" iiij!* and v'* he sayeth he cannot depose to the 
contentes of thes interrogatories. / 
““To the vj'" he saithe that by all the tyme of his remembrance whiche is 
aboute a xxx yeres this deponent hathe knowen that Richard Pulley father 
to Isabell Jeye oone of the complainauntes during his lyfe dyd occupye and 
enioye the ferme the of same manor of Puryton with the parsonage 
of Puriton vnder the late abbotes for the tyme being of the late mon- 
astry of Malmesbury, and dyd percyue receyve and take the profettes 
and commodyties therof by all his lyfe tyme / And after his decease 
whiche was a xv or xvi yeres paste Margaret Pulley his wife dyd 
occupie and enioye the same during her lyfe tyme / And after her decease 
whiche was aboute a iij yeres past the same Isabell now complainaunt her 
daughter dyd occupie the same and hath: euersythe enioyed the same in 
peaseable [maner] / And this deponent neuer herde the contrary but that 
they haue so occupied and enioyed the same by vertue of an Indenture of 
lease to them made therof by the late abbote and covent of Malmesbury / 
And ne contradiction made therin by any persone to his knoledge as he saithe / 
And more towchinge this interrogatory he canne not depose /. 
‘““To the vij'" he saithe he herde John Precye saye that he was attorney 
namyd in the same Indenture to delyuer seison and possession of the same 
premisses / and that he accordingly dyd delyuer possession therof vnto the 


