222 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
And saith that he beinge monke professid in the same house of Malmesbury 
in the vijth yere of the reigne of the late Kinge of famouse memory Henry 
the viijth. and now xxxiij yeres past or somewhat more was present in the 
Chapter House of the saide late Monastry emongest other his cobretherne 
ther At what tyme the same Indenture so to the personnes aboue namyd 
made was ther redde and by the hole convent then ther assemblyd agreed 
vpon and so sealyd withe the Convent Seale And afterwarde also sealyd with 
the Abbotes Seale as he herde saye/ And . . . ther was reseruid vpon 
the same lease to {his present] remembrance the yerely rent of xxiii" to 
the [same] Abbote and convent of Malmesbury / And more therof he cannot 
depose / 
“To the iiijth he saithe that after the same lease so made he knew the 
same Richard Pulley by vertue ther of in peaseable possession and occupie 
the same by the space of a xj yeres after vntyll he dyed And after his 
decease the same Margaret his wife by the space of an xviii yeres after oceupyed 
and enioyed the same / vntyll she dyed And sythe hir tyme by the space 
of this iiij yeres he hathe knowen the same Isabell and her said husband now 
complaynauntes to occupié the same by vertue of the same lease / 
‘To the vth he saithe he knowith perfytly well that the same Richard 
Pulley and Margaret his wife Ambrose Edmond and Gyles theyre childerne 
pe all dede And that the same Isabell now complaynaunt as survivor is in 
possession and dothe occupie the same premisses by vertue of the same lease / 
“To the vjth he saithe that the same Isabell now complainaunt [is of] 
thage of xxxvj yeres or nere theraboutes As this deponent saithe that he 
beinge monke of Malmesbury dyd muche resorte to the house of the saide 
Richard Pulley her father And dothe remember that before the makyng of 
the same lease he sawe the same Isabell then a very yonge gyrle of a ij or 
iij yeres of age playing vp and downe in her saide fathers house / 
‘“To the vijt he saithe the same Indenture of lesse before specifyed is a 
trew dede and the very dede of the Abbot and convent of the same late house 
of Malmesbury wiche this deponeut sawe sealyd as he hath predeposid And 
by reporte saithe that possession therof was delyuered accordingly by Sir 
John Frankelyn vicar of Puryton / 
“*To the viij he saith he knowith that Sir Edmond Bridges hathe stayed 
the rent of the same xix acres specifyed in this Interrogatory frome the saide 
complainauntes./ 
“To the last he saithe the contynewance of the possession of the same 
Lordeship of Puryton with the parsonage hathe contynewyd in the same 
Richard Pulley Margarett his wife and the same Isabell euer syth the grante 
of the same lease / withoute the interruption of any persone to his knoledge 
vntyll this present strife as he saithe./ 
[ Attested] By me THomas WESHBURN” 
“Aanres Smiru, alias . . . widowe of Puryton aforesaid of thage of 
of lx yeres [and] aboue sworne &c. 
“To the first she saithe that she hathe knowen the same Lordeship of 
Puryton and the landes therto belonging by all the tyme of her reraenieace 
wiche is by the space of this .l. yeres as she saithe / 
“To the second and iij4 she saithe that she hathe sondry tymes on 

