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messuages and copiehold and customarye landes and tenementes which were 

 and are demysed and demysable by coppie of court roll accordinge to the 

 custome of the said mannor, But this defendaunt saith, That wheras the said 

 complainaunt doth alleadge in her said bill of complaint, that the said 

 customarye or coppiehold tenements are and tyme out of mynde have byne 

 demysed and demysable by coppie of court roll accordinge to the custome of 

 the said mannor unto any personne or personnes that will take the same for 

 one two or three lives in possession or for two lives in revercion of one liffe in 

 possession, This said defendaunt thereunto saith that shee hath byne verye 

 creddablely informed and"averreth and beleeveth it to be true that the custome 

 of the said mannor is not, as the said complainant hath alleadged the same in 

 her said bill, But this defendaunt averreth and verye thinketh it to be true 

 that the custome of the said mannor is that the same copiehold tenementes 

 are granted by coppie of court roll accordinge to the custome of the said 

 mannor, for two lives only and no more That is to saye for one liffe in 

 possession and one in revercion, and not for more then one liffe in revercion, 

 and this defendaunt saith that shee doth not knowe whether the said Eaphe 

 Calley did graunt the copiehold tenementes with thappurtenaunces in the said 

 bill mencioned to have byne in the occupacion of Kobert Jeoffery to the said 

 complainaunt and Suzan her syster in the said bill named for terme of their 

 lives, for it seemeth by the date of the supposed coppie therof in the bill 

 mencioned if any such coppie were graunted that it was longe before this 

 defendaunt had any thinge to doe with the said mannor and premysses 

 neither is the said supposed coppie inrolled in any [of J the court rolls or court 

 bookes of the said mannor which came to this defendaunts hands after the 

 decease of the said John Calley this defendaunts husband, but if the same or 

 any such coppie were graunted as the said complainaunt hath supposed, Yett 

 neverthelesse this defendaunt taketh it not to be materiall unto this defendaunt 

 whether the same coppie were granted or no, beinge graunted in such manner 

 and forme as the said complainant hath alleadged in her said bill and not 

 beinge graunted accordinge to nor warranted by the custome of the said 

 mannor and so is void by the custome of the said mannor as this defendaunt 

 verely thinketh And this defendaunt saeth that shortelie after the decease 

 of the wife of the said Koberte Jeoffryes this said defendaunte entred uppon 

 parte of the said coppihowld tenemente accordinge to the custome of the said 

 mannor as this defendaunte thinketh it was lawfull for her to doe and doth 

 lawfullie refuse and denie to admitte the said complainaunte tenaunt to the 

 said coppihowld tenemente havinge noe good title therunto as this defendaunte 

 conceaveth And this defendaunte was in lawfull and quiett possession 

 accordinglie, And after the feast of St. Michaell the Archaingell now last past 

 (at which tyme the interest of the executors yere belonginge to the executor 

 of the said widdowe of the said Eoberte Jeoffryes was ended) this defendaunt 

 peaceablie and quietly entred and claymed and ought to enjoy e the residue 

 of the said coppiehowld tenemente. But the said complainaunte being a 

 woman of a furious and violente unwoemanlike spirite and disposition and 

 havinge gathered to herselfe a companye of violent and ruffianlike ill disposed 

 personnes hath with force and violence disturbed this defendaunte and made 

 forceble and violente entries into and uppon the said tenemente and greatly 



