32 . Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 
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Richard and the last abbott of Malmesbury famylyar fryndes after the said 
Rychard Polley’s deth wherby she myght haue what lessys and copies she wold./ 
‘10 Item whether dyd the said Margarett require yow to lent some 
money to the said abbott and what some was hytt / And what promesse made 
she for to recompence the same /. 
‘‘11 Item were yow present or dyd yow euer here of any lyuery and seisen 
made by the same Frankleyn to Polley within the compasse of xxxiiij yeres 
past. And how long is it sence Franklayn (sic) occupied the farme first xl or 
Xxxix yere agoo./ 
Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 
Bundle 8, No. 41. 
“Bix vj? Maij Super Interrogatoriis ex parte magistri Bridges ultimo 
An? ii}? E. vj. loco datis. 
[6th May, 1549.| 
‘‘Joun Hayes clere’ parsone of the parishe churche of Lydyard in the 
county of Wiltes, of thage of lxiij yeres. 
‘‘To the first he saithe he knew the same John Frankelyn Clerc’ xxxix 
yeres ago he beinge then vicar of Puryton. . 
‘‘To the seconde he saithe he dwelte with the same John Frankelyn xxxix 
yeres past and was then parish prest of the churche of Lydyerde to the same 
Frankelyn the parsone therof / and so contyneuyd with him yntyll his dethe 
by the space of a vj yeres as he saithe / 
‘To the iij* he saithe he was so dwellyng with the saide Frankelyn at the 
tyme of his dethe who laye ther sycke by the space of viij or ix dayes before 
he dyed as he saithe / 
‘To the iiij* he saithe the same Frankelyn dyed aboute Bartylmew tyde to 
his now remembrance being xxxiij yeres ago at Bartylmew tyde last past 
[24th Aug., 1548] and that he saithe he knowithe for that this deponent the 
vn daye of December nexte after was instituted parsone of Lydyard by the 
then bysshop of Sarum then being voyde by the deth of the said Frankelyn. 
The date of whiche Institucion at this his examination shewyed is quinto 
Decembris An° Domini Millesimo quingentesimo quinto decimo. 
“To the v yjt" and vij* he saithe he knewe the same Richard Pulley 
fermour of Puryton about a xl. yeres past and was so fermour there before this 
deponent came to [be] parishe prest at Lydyard to the same parsone Frankelyn 
wiche is xxxix yeres past as he hathe predeposid / And saithe that there 
was no frendship or amytie betwene the saide Pulley and the same parsone 
Frankelyn at the tyme of the dethe of the saide Frankelyn nor oone yere 
before the same / for he saithe the same Pulley then fermour of Puryton 
went aboute by all meanes he coulde to inclose a certen grounde callyd Puryton 
Hill whiche was and is comon euery thirde yere to the Inhabitantes of 
Puryton / wherin he was resisted by the same Inhabitantes which rose in 
greate nomber against him therin and complayned to the same parsone 
Frankelyn therof who toke parte with the same his parishners therin and 
ther[u]pon arose greate variaunce and grudge betwene the same Frankelyn 
