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the saide Richard Pulley and that the same Richard Pulley dyd begynne 
by vertue therof to occupie the farme of the same manor this deponent then 
came from the seruice of Alice Prater wydowe of Mychall / vnto Puryton to 
his father then ther dwelling and ther contynewyd with his saide father a 
single man by the space of .x. yeres after and then maryed and hathe byn 
now a maryed man by the space of xxiiij yeres as he saithe / And saithe that 
at the nexte courte ther holden after his suche comyng frome the saide 
wydowes seruice vnto his father as he hath predeposyd he herde ther the same 
Indenture redde wherin the same Richard Pulley Margarete his wife 
Ambrose Edmond and Isabell theyr childerne wer namyd as he saithe / 
‘To the iiijth he saith [that by] vertue of the same lease the said Richard 
Pulley [for] the space of a xj yeres vntyll he dyed dyd enioye [and] occupie 
the same / and after his decease the same [Marga ]rete his wife by the space 
of an xvj yeres vntyll she dyed Sythe whose deth wiche is almost iiij yeres 
the now complainaunte hath occupied the same / 
‘To th vth he saith that trew yt is that all the persones namyd in the same 
lease savinge the same Isabell be all dede / 
“To the vjth he saithe he knowith that the same Isabell is of thage of 
xxxvj yeres for he saithe that at his suche comyng from the saide wydowes 
seruice home to Puryton to his father as he hathe predeposid he knewe 
perfytly well the same Isabell a lytell gyrrell and then beganne to ronne 
aboute the house beinge of a two yeres of age to his estimation / 
“To the vij he saithe he hath herde saye that the Vicar of Puryton callyd 
Willyam Frankelyn dyd delyuer possession of the same premisses to the saide 
Richard Pulley / And more he cannot depose / 
“To the viij he saithe he herde saye that the same Sir Edmonde Bridges 
dothe staye the rent of the saide xix acres frome the complainaunte wiche 
this deponent knewe allwayes occupied with the farme of Puryton / 
“To the last he neuer herde that the same Richard Pulley Margaret his 
wife or the now complainaunt wer euer interrupted in the occupieng of the 
same premisses vntyll this present stryte /”’ 
[Attested by mark. ] 
““EpytH Sayer [wife of] Robert Sayer of Radborne in the County of 
[Wiltes’] of thage of .l. yeres, sworne Xe. 
“To the first seconde iijrd, iiijth. and vth. she saithe she cannot depose of 
any suche Indenture made to the persones namyd in this Interrogatory of 
the same manor and parsonage of Puriton. And she saithe that aboute a 
yere and some what more before the deporent was maryed wiche is now 
XXxilij yeres a goo this deponent was then seruant in [the] house with the 
same Richard Pulley at Radborne aforesaid at what tyme he had ther in his 
handes the farme of the same manor of Puryton for that yere vpon lykyng 
and not by Indenture And how he came by the same after warde by Inden- 
ture she saith she knowith not nor can depose any more to this Interrogatory / 
“To the vjth she saithe that at such tyme as she fyrst came to the 
seruyce of the saide Richard Pully father to the same Isabell now complain- 
aunte wiche is xxxiiij yeres ago and aboute a ij yeres before this deponentes 
saide mariage as she hathe predeposid the same Isabell was then a lytell 
