210 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
Mr. Bridges sayng Thou (lying| knave and so toke him by the hedde and 
gave him two or thre blowes / And so went into the buttry and ther bett 
Jane Webbe bycause she wolde not tell wher her mystres was and threw her 
agynst a cupbord that her bodye was blake and blewe wiche she saithe she 
sawe / And so frome thens he went to the kechin And ther bett Agnes Symkes 
And so bycause he coulde not gett the keye of the woll house / he brake 
open the dore with a pyked staffe and enteryd thereat and toke furth the 
ymage of St. George and so departyd / And more therof she knowith not / 
“To the iiij"" she saithe that at the tyme articuled or nere:therabout and 
aboute x. of the clocke in the nighte tyme this deponent lokyng furthe at the 
wyndowe mighte se James More and ij or iij mo with him brekyng open of 
the dovehouse dore and fearing awaye the doves being a boue a c cople and 
so toke awaye the younge doves wherat her saide mystres lokyng furth at 
her chamber wyndowe sayde yt wer better that I lost my doves then you 
shulde lose your occupation / And so after the saide persones wer gone 
her said mystres went to the saide Mr. Bridges to complayne theref this 
deponent and other wayting on her thither / And more she can not depose / 
‘*To the v'* she saithe the same Mr. Bridges horses hath sondry tymes 
come into the playntifes courte and eaten vp the foder ther gyven to his cattall / 
“To the vjth vij and viij she cannot depose / 
**To the ix and x she saithe she cannot perfytly depose / 
‘“‘To the xi she saithe that she knowith that Mr. Bridges dyd denye and 
wolde not suffer the playntifes seruauntes to fatehe any wood in Bradon 
Wood wher he was accustomyd to have yerely xx" loodes of wood as she saithe / 
‘To the xijt) she saithe that ther lyeth xxij trees fellyd on the grounde and 
dothe hurte the grounde and kepith yt from grasyng to the annoyaunce of 
the playntifes as she saithe / 
‘To the xiij she saithe that in the tyme that she was seruaunt to the saide 
playntyfes she hathe knowen the saide Mr. Bridges seruauntes kyll in the 
courte yard of the playntifes of his hennes and capons above Ix. as she saithe / 
and dyd almost dayly vse so to kyll with ther handgonnes the hennes and 
capons ther beinge / 
‘To the xiiij she saithe she was present in the same kechin at the shoting 
of the same pellet in therto / And saithe therin as John Symes hath pre- 
deposid / 
‘‘To the xv. she saithe the same Mr. Bridges horses hathe often tymes byn 
in the playntifes corn feldes / And more thereof she knowith not / 
“fo the xvj she saithe [she sawe] the same playntifes calfe beinge but a 
sevenight olde havinge his eares cut by the hedde and the tayle by the rompe 
and the clawes also cut of wiche was done by John Bridges as she herde 
saye / And more therof she knowith not / 
‘To the xvij she saithe she sawe Mr. Bridges bereward and dyuerse other 
- with him course a bere on the same Wyndmzyll Hill whereby she saithe that 
iij kyen then ther pasturing beinge sore chasyd therwyth dyd cast theyre 
calfes and dyed within a sevennight after / And more therof she knowith 
not / 
“To the xviij she saithe that she was present in a malte loft with her 
precontestis and sawe James More cast in the same dounge in to the well 

