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“To the vj vij and viij he cannot depose / 
“To the ix he saithe he herde the prest of Puriton saye that Mr. Bridges 
had chargid him to commaunde the parishners to paye no tythes to the 
pleyntyfe / 
‘*To the xt® he saithe that the same Mr. Bridges taketh the rent of the 
same xix acres whiche is parcell of the manor of Puryton and hathe allwayes 
‘byn occupied by the fermors of the same manor as he hathe herde seye / 
‘* To the xj he saithe that the saide Mr. Bridges hathe restrayned xx" loodes 
of wood this yeare from the saide pleyntyfe wiche he shulde have had in 
Braidon wood as he saithe / 
“To the xij" he saith that the same Mr. Bridges hathe fellyd aboute a lx 
trees in oone of the pastures of the saide pleyntyfe and hathe sufferid a 
greate parte of them to lye styll on the grounde to the hurte and losse of the 
grasse but how muche he knowith not / 
“To the xiij he saithe he sawe John Bridges kyll with his hand gonne 
oone henne of the pleyntyfes within his yarde and vsyth muche to shote 
therwith aboute the pleyntyfes house / 
_ To the xiiij he cannot depose / 
“To the xv he saithe the sayd Mr. Bridges horses hathe sondry tymes byn 
put into the corne feldes of the saide pleyntyfe the corne grene on the grounde 
and this deponent durst not put them furthe but at oone tyme tolde the same 
_ Mr. Bridges therof and askyd whether he shulde put them furthe or no / who 
answerid and chargid this deponent to lett them be ther styll / 
“To the xvj he saith that Henry BridgesandJ . . . Nicholas toke a 
calfe of the saide pleyntyfes of . . . dayes age and cut of the tayle 
therof and [the] earesby the hedde and also the hovesof . . . wherat 
he saith he was not present / but sawe [the] calfe afterwardes so handelyd 
__wiche the same persones haue not denyed the doyng therof / but [sythe] 
that tyme Mr. Bridges dyd offer mony for the same calfe so handelyd and 
 destroyid / 
“To the xvij he saithe that Mr. Bridges Beareward and his seruauntes dyd 
- eourse a beare vpon the grounde callyd Wyndmy]ll Hill wher the pleyntyfes 
__kyen beinge greate with calfes dyd pasture And of the same kyen oone dyd 
east her calfe and two other of the kyen dyed greate with calfe / And as he 
__ supposyth yt came miche throughe the coursing of the same beare emongest 
them / 
“To the xviij he saith ther was aboute a carte lood of dunge cast in to the 
well of the plaintiff but by whome he knowith not / And by that meanes he 
saith the water was stopid vntyll yt was therof clensid / 
_ To the xix he saithe he herde Mr. Bridges demaunde oone Anthony 
_ Dodeswell a laborer whither he went to worke / who answered to Bennet 
--Jayes And then he sayde ageyne yf thou go thither to worke I shall beate 
_ the that thou shalt not be able to helpe thiself And therwith the same 
_ Dodeswell retornyd backe ageyne 
* “To the last he saith he cannot perfytly depose 
[ Attested by mark. | 
