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_ playntyfe wiche was but oone yere he hathe knowen at sondry tymes kyllid 
with handgonnes aboue xl. hennes and capons by the seruauntes of the saide 
Mr. Bridges in the courte yarde of the mansion house of the playntyfes / 
_ “To the xiiij he saithe that within awhile after . . . last past this 
deponent and other the seruauntes of the saide playntyfes beinge in the kechin 
by the fyer in the evening ther came in a pellet of gonne at the wyndowe 
and strake oone of the pannes ther wher |at] he saith they wer all astonyd 
And so lept vp to the wyndowe and ther sawe the said John Bridges with a 
-gonne in his hande vnder neth the same wyndow in the garden / 
_ To the xv. he cannot depose / 
“To the xvi he saithe that in Lent last past this deponent beinge in the 
courte yarde of the saide playntyfes sawe the bereward of the saide Mr. 
Bridges and oone other with him whome he knewe not on the same grounde 
eallyd Wyndmyll Hill and ther had a calfe of the playntyfes of iiij dayes 
olde betwene them / and so cut of his tayle by the rompe and the eares by 
the hedde / and also the clawes of the fete of the same / wiche calfe is yet on 
lyve as he saithe / 
“To the xvij he saithe that he. was present in a close within the same 
r dyd cast theyr calfes and dyed them selfes also within a sevenight after / 
saith he knew none of the persones therat but the bereward / And more 
knowith not / 
; « To the xviij he saithe that he and Elizabethe Stradlinge woman seruaunt 
in the house of the saide playntyfes standing aboue in a malt lofte of the 
auntes of saide Mr. Bridges cast into the well ther a greate basket full of 
ge / wherby the water was stoppid And so this deponent being then 
naunt ther dyd clense the same well ageyne / And more therof he knowith 
“To the xix he saithe he herde Anthony Doswell saye that Mr. Bridges 
ad threatenyd him for. workyng and laboring with the saide playntyfes so 
t he durst worke no longer with him / 
“To the last he cannot depose / . 
| Attested by mark.| 
‘ELIZABETH STRADLING widowe of Bristowe in the countye of Gloucester 
e of xl. yeres sworne Kc. 
the first second and iij™ she saithe that at the tyme articuled this 
mt then being seruaunt to the said playntyfes sawe the same Mr. 
S accompanyd with Bradley Gabryel Rede oone More and other of his 
ntes to the nomeber of a xij persones having swerdes and daggers 
to the mansion house of the playntyfes and ther in the yarde mett 
Browne seruaunt [in] the howse ther and askyd him for the Image 
i. George / wiche he answeryd he knewe not [wher] yt was The saide 
