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yeard landes entred in and uppon your orators possession and him thereof 

 wrongfullie desseased and by reason your orator hath not the possession of 

 the said writinges [&c] he can not sumcientlie sett downe a courte of accion 

 againste the said Edith [&c] for the recoverie of the said moytie [&c] 



George Horde. 



Then follows the writ, dated 10th February, 35 Elizabeth (A.D. 

 1592-3) addressed to Roger Garrard, John Hycchecock and William 

 Lavyngton, gentlemen, to examine the said Edith and Ralph, &c, 

 which was returned by Roger Grarrard, and William Lavington, 

 28th August, 35 Elizabeth. 



In the examination or answer of the said Edith and Ralph 

 annexed they say that the matter of the bill is devised to put them 

 to trouble, the complainant knowing them "to be but pore and of 

 meane estate, and he himself a man of wealth and greter coun- 

 tenuance," &c. The said 



Edith Hollowey for herself saith that longe tyme before the said Eaphe 

 Cawly gentleman father . . . was seazed of and in the rnannor of 

 Highwey in the said bill of complaint mencioned that is to say about one 

 hundred yeres past one John Overton grandfather unto this defendant . . . 

 tenement and of three yard landes in Highwey mencioned the moytie of which 

 three yard landes this said defendant thinkenge to be the moytie in the bill of 

 complaint mencioned and so died therof sesed [after] whose decease the said 

 thre yard landes with thappurtenaunces desended and came as of right the 

 same ought to desend and come unto one Eoberte Overton as the sonne and 

 heire of the said John . . . Eoberte Overton therinto entred and was 

 therof seased accordingly and died therof seazed by and after whose decease 

 the said thre yard landes with thappurtenaunces desended and came [&c] unto 

 this defendant Edith and unto one Edith Elington hir sister deceased as to 

 the daughters and heires of the said Eoberte Overton by force whereof they 

 the said this defendant Edith [and Edith] hir sister into the said three yarde 

 landes entred and were therof seased accordingly and being therof so seazed 

 in and about the fower or fifte yere of the raigne of the late kinge of famous 

 memory Edward the sixth the said defendant Edith and Edith her sister 

 together with John Hollowey the husband of this said defendant and Thomas 

 Plumer husband of the said Edith her sister [as lawful to them] was made 

 particion of the said [messuage] and thre yard landes as by due order and 

 course of the lawe they might doo and the same was quietly occupied and 

 enjoyed ever since the said particion made untell no we of latte that . . 

 hath disturbed the quyett possession of the nowe defendant she the nowe 

 defendant havinge enjoyed the same by the space of thresckore years or 

 theraboutes havinge as the nowe defendant thenk nothinge to doe with 

 the demeasnes fees rentes and profittes of the said mannor of Highway for 



