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Margarett his wyfe . . . before namyd to whom the said lese 
were sesid.of . . . osid and grauntid in theredemesne .. . lyves 
lese or demyse before the Disso[lution] . . . thesaidlate . . . they 
were who were seysid therof./ 
‘‘y Whether the said Richard Pulley Margarett his wyfe [Ambrose 
Edmond| and Gyles be deade / And whether the said Isabell wyfe [of] the 
saide Benett Joye [be the survivor] of [all] the said lessees / And whether 
the said Benett [Joye] and Isabell be in . . . of the |premisses] so 
demysed and graunted / And howe longe [they] haue byn seysid therof /. 
‘vj Item whether these deponentes do knowe what age the said Isabell 
wyfe to the said Benett Joye ys And yf they do of what age she is of / And 
whether the said Isabell was borne before the said lease was made or not./ 
“‘vij Item yf these deponentes have seen any suche Indenture or lease as 
ys before recyted whether the same be a true dede and the vere dede of the 
said late Abbot and Covent or of the more parte of them And whether they 
knowe or have harde that possession of the premisses so demised and grauntid 
was delyuered according to the tenor and purport of the same Indenture And 
yf it were who delyuered possession therof / And whether these deponentes 
or any of them were present and prevey when the same dede was delyuered 
as the dede of the same late Abbott and Covent./ 
“‘viij Item whether the said Sir Edmond Brydges hathe entrid into xix acres 
of lande at Puryton forsaid parcell of the scyte of the said manor of Puryton 
with thappurtenaunces so demysid by the said Indenture of lease and the 
same dothe occupye and taketh the profittes therof to his owne vse And 
what the same are worthe by the yare./ 
‘‘ix Item whether the persones before rehersid to whom the said lease 
was made or some of them haue euer sythen the same lease made byn in 
possession of the said seyte and other the premisses so demysid and graunt 
by reason of the same lease and inyoyed the same withowt lett troble or 
disturbaunce tyll nowe of late that the said Sir Edmond hathe wrongfully 
vexid and trobled the said Benett Joye and Isabell in the premisses./ 
Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward V1., 
Bundle I., No. 89. 
‘Ex. xvto Marcij [Super interrogatoriis] per Joye secundo loco 
An? iij? E. yjti ministratis. 
{15 March, 1548-9. ] 
“THomas Wa[sHBU]RNE of Malmesbury in the county of Wiltes’ Clarke 
of thage of lxj yeres sworne &c. 
“To the first he saithe he knoith perfytly well the same Lordeship of 
Puryton and that the same dyd belong to the late Monastery of Malmesbury 
wherof this deponent was monke professid by the space of xvj yeres And 
ae known the same Lordship of Puryton by the space of xl. yeres as he 
saith. 
“To the second and iijtd he saithe that he hathe seene the Indenture of 
of lease of the saide Lordeship of Puryton and parsonage of Puryton so made 
to the same Richard Pulley Margaret his wife Ambrose Edmond and Isabel 
ther childerne in maner and forme as yt ys deducyd in this Interrogatory 
