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Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 223 
the same lease mencyoned in this Indenture redde in the Lordes Courte 
ther wherin yt apperid that the same Lordship of Puryton with thappur- 
tenaunces and the parsonage of Puryton was lette and demised by thabbot 
and convent of Malmesbury for the tyme being vnto the saide Richard Pulley 
Margaret his wyfe Edmond Ambrose Isabell and Gyles theyre childerne for 
terme of theyr lyves and the longest lyver of them vpon the yerely rent of 
xxiij', And the same lease was so made as she saithe xxxiij yeresago. And 
that she saithe she remembrith for that the yere before that the saide Richard 
Pulley obteynid the same lease this Deponent broughte furthe two childerne 
at oone byrthe wiche is now xxxiiij yeres ago as she saithe / 
“To the iiijth she saithe she knew the same Richard Pulley occupie the 
same premisses by vertue of the saide lease by all his lyfe tyme after / wiche 
was aboute a xj yeres and after his decease the same Margarett Pulley 
occupied the same xvj yeres togethers vntyll she dyed. Sythe the wiche 
tyme the now complainauntes have occupied the same by the space of this 
iiij yeres / 
“To the vth she [saithe that] trew yt is that the same Richard Pulley 
M[argaret hi]s wife Edmond Ambrose and Gyles theyre chyldern be all dede 
And that the same Isabell now complainaunte is the survivor and in possession 
of the same premisses by vertue therof / 
‘To the vjth she saithe that the same Isabell is of thage of xxxvj yeres and 
was borne in the same yere that this deponent had a childe callyd Thomas 
wiche Thomas shalbe xxxvj yeres of age at Whitsuntyde nexte In the wiche 
yere she saithe that the soldyers of England went into Scotland to batayle 
and the Scotyshe Kyng was ther slayne/ [Battle of Flodden Field, 9th 
Sept., 1513.] 
“To the vij she saith by reporte of Thomas Goldsmith that Sir John 
Frankelyn deceasyd then vicar of Puryton dyd delyuer possession of the same 
farme to the saide Pulley and thother before namyd / And more therof she 
knowith not / 
“To the viij she saithe she knowith that Sir Edmond Bridges hathe denyed 
the occupieng of the same xix acres vnto the saide playntyfes And this 
deponent saithe that she knew John Calfe and Richard Wootely fermers 
therof and paye the rent for the same xix acres vnto the saide Richard Pulley 
in his lyfe tyme and afterward to Margaret Pulley / 
‘To the last she saithe as she hath said to the iiijth Interrogatory and that she 
neuer knewe them interruptid therein vntyll this present strife as she saithe /” 
“Winut1am Wess[e of WJroughton in the Countye of Wiltes gent’ of 
[thage] of lij yeres sworne kc. 
“To the first he saithe he knowith the same Lordship of Puryton with the 
landes and tenementes therto belonging and hathe so knowen the same by all 
the tyme of his remembraunce / beinge borne and broughte vp within a iij 
myles of the same / 
“To the second and iijrd he saithe that he hathe seene and herde redde 
the same Indenture of lease so made of the saide Lordship of Puryton and 
the parsonage of Puriton with thappurtenaunces by thabbote and Covent then 
being of the late Monastery of Malmesbury vnto the persones namyd in this 
