204 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
“To the xiii and all the residewe of thes interrogatories he saithe he knowith 
nothing of the contentes therof / 
[Attested hy mark.| 
*“GrorGE Browne of Puriton aforesaid husbandman servant to the 
plaintiff of thage of xxiiij yeres sworne, &e. 
‘To the first second and iij he saithe that at the tyme articulid the same 
Sir Edmond Bridges accompanid with John Bradley James More John 
Edwardes oone Perye Gabriell Rede Nicholas Brewer and John Ayleworthe 
came to the mansion house of the same complainauntes they being then from 
home and ther meting this deponent seruant in the howse ther the same Mr. 
Bridges demaundyd him wher the ymage of St George was that was caryed 
furthe of the churche / this deponent anwering that he coulde not tell / And 
then [he] facyd this deponent saying that he had stolen yt awaye this 
deponent denyeng the same And then the same Mr. Bridges gave this 
deponent two buffettes on the face / wherwith this deponent stopid backe and 
went from him / And therupon he went into the kychin and ther founde 
Agnes Symes a mayden seruant whom he bett also And from thens went to 
the buttery and ther fynding Jane Webbe an other mayden seruant he bett 
her also and threw her ageynst a cupborde And so. hering saye that the 
same image of St George was in the woll house ther he with a pycked staffe 
causyd the dore to be broken open and so entrid and toke away the same 
ymage of St George with him and so departyd And saith he so bett the 
maydens bycause they wolde not tell him wher theyr mystres was nor 
delyuer him the key of the same woll house And saithe the same persones 
had swerdes and daggers and oone a pykd staffe / 
“To the iiij'" he saithe that within a vj dayes after James More John 
Edwardes and oone Pery seruauntes to the same Mr. Bridges and other 
personnes with them came to the same house of the pleyntyfe ther in the 
nighte tyme and ther brake open the dofe house and kylled the younge dofes 
and fearyd awaye the olde beinge then [above] accopleas he saythe and with 
[staves] beate rounde aboute within the same dovehouse so that the same 
doves so fearyd came not [ageyn] to the same howse as he saithe / And saithe 
he knowith perfytly well that James More and John Edwardes seruauntes 
of [Mr. Bridges] by him before namyd wer therat / for he saith [he] sawe 
them and spake to them oute of a window And as towching the valor of 
the doves so destroyed he saithe he knowith not / 
“To the v'" he saith that the same Mr. Bridges horses hathe sondry tymes 
byn put in to the yarde of the saide pleyntyfe and ther eaten suche heye as 
his cattall wer fotheryd with all / And none of the saide pleyntyfes seruauntes 
durst turne them furthe for the saide Mr. Bridges and his seruauntes haue often 
tymes beaten this deponent and other seruauntes of the pleyntyfe for so 
turning his horses furthe / and he hathe stonde by whiles the childeren of 
the howse haue dryven them furthe and sayde what harlot is that (meanyng 
the wife of the howse as he saithe) that cannot suffer her Lande Lordes 
horse to eate a bytt of haye emongest her beastes / 

