226 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
gyrrell in the house with her father of thage of a ij yeres to her iudgment or 
nere theraboute And this deponent saithe the same Isabell is now of thage 
of xxxyj yeres to her perfyt knowledge and remembraunce as she saithe 
“To the vij viij and ix she cannot depose |” 
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«Hix, xxvjto Joun Dyer [of Tetbury] in the county of Gloucester 
Aprilis gent’ of thage of . . . sworne &e. 
““To the first he saithe he hathe knowen perfytly well the same lordeship 
of Puryton and the parsonage of Puryton by the space ofaxxx . . .yeres 
now past. And was scolemaster in the monastry of Malmesbury aboute a 
XXXVj yeres past or some what more / 
‘*To the second and iij* he saithe that he hathe seene and redde the same 
Indenture specifyed in this Interrogatory so made to the saide Richard Pulley 
Margaret his wife Ambrose Edmond and Isabell theyr childerne for terme of 
theyr lyves and the longes lyver of them. And saithe the same lease was 
made xxxiij yeres past and in the fyrst yere of Richard Camme then Abbote 
of Malmesbury this deponent then beinge scolemaster in the same monastry. 
And saithe ther was to his now remembrance reseruyd vpon the same lease 
the yerely rent of xxiij' / And saithe that the same Indenture beyng sealyd 
with the covent seale and in thandes of the then prior of the same monastry 
this deponent dyd rede the same before the same prior and the then abbot 
and the same Richard Pulley and conferryd the same with the counterpane 
therof. And after collation therof made the same abbot sette his seale and 
delyueryd the same to the said Richard Pulley as the dede of the saide abbot 
and convent / 
“™o the iiijth he saithe he hathe knowen the same Richard Pulley in his 
lyfe tyme and after his decease Margarete his wife duringe her lyfe tyme and 
nowe the same Isabell complainaunte successyvely to haue occupied the same 
manor of Puryton with the parsonage of Puryton by vertue of the same lease 
so to them made / 
“To the vth he saithe he knoith that the same Richard Pulley Margaret 
his wife Ambrose and Edmond theyr childerne be all dede / and that the 
same Isabell now complainaunte ys survivor and hathe occupied and enioyed 
the same premisses by vertue of the same lease by the space of these iiij yeres 
or nere theraboute/ 
‘To the vjth he saithe [he knoith . . . ] that the same Isabell is of 
thage of xxxvj [yeres and] that she was borne in the same yere that the 
[Scotyshe] Kinge was slayne in the Scotyshe felde And saithe of his owne 
knoledge that within a yere [after] the same lease so made to the same 
Richard Pulley and the aforenamyd persones this deponent was attendant 
vpon the then abbot of Malmesbury at the keping of a courte vpon the same 
manor of Puryton / At what tyme he saithe that the same Isabell was then 
a lytell gyrle of a iiij yeres of age playinge in the howse ther with whome the 
then abbot of Malmesbury wolde iest with all and call yt wife / as he saithe / 
“To the vijth he saithe that the same dede of Indenture so made as he 
hathe predeposyd was the very trew dede of the same late abbote and convent 
of Malmesbury and was wryten by oone Robert Lawrence Register to 
