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the more fortunate, accordingly, that in the pleadings, here tran- 

 scribed, nothing appears to be wanting. We have the bill, the 

 answer, the replication, and the rejoinder. We have the in- 

 terrogatories, and the depositions of witnesses thereon, in support 

 of the plaintiff's case. Then we have the King's commission with 

 interrogatories, on either side, annexed, with the Commissioners' 

 report of the depositions made before them, engrossed and returned 

 with the commission. We have rebutting evidence, taken on fresh 

 interrogatories, on the plaintiff's behalf, and finally a re-examination, 

 on further interrogatories on the defendant's behalf, of certain of 

 the plaintiff's witnesses. 



The decree of the court is not to be found, as we have mentioned. 

 In lieu of it, we may perhaps be allowed to make some observations 

 on the whole case hereafter. For the present it will be sufficient 

 to note the extreme appositeness of the proceedings to the observa- 

 tions previously made (Wilts Arch. Mag., xxx., ]30-l) as to the 

 effect of conventual leases. 



" To the Kyng oure mooste dred souerayn lord. 

 " In mooste humble wyse shewen and complaynen vnto youre Highnes 

 youre true and faythfull subiectes Benett Jeye of Puryton in youre Countye 

 of Wyltes Gent' and Isabelle hys wyfe doughtour of Eychard Pulley and 

 Margaret hys wyfe deceassed That where oon Eychard then Abbott of the 

 late Monastery of oure blessed lady the vyrgyn and saynt Aldelme of 

 Malmesbury in youre seyd County of Wyltes' was laufully seysed in hys 

 demeane as of fee in the ryght of the seyd Monastery of and in the lordship 

 of Puryton aforeseyd wyth thappurtenaunces / And the seyd Abbott so beyng 

 therof seysed and the Covent of the seyd late Monastery by theyr dede in- 

 dentyd sealed with the seales of the seyd Abbott and Covent beryng date the 

 iiijth daye of Septembre in the vijth yere of the Eeygn of youre mooste dere 

 father oure late Souerayn lord Kyng Henry the viijth [4th Sept., 1515] by 

 oon assente and consente Dyd demyse graunt and confyrme to the seyd 

 Eychard Pulley and Margarett hys wyfe and to Ambrose Edmond Isabelle 

 and Gyles chyldern of the seyd Eychard Pulley and Margarett the syte of 

 the seyd Manor of Puryton wyth thappurtenances and the parsonage of 

 Puryton aforeseyd wyth all Tythes and landes to the seyd scyte and parsonage 

 perteynyng or belongyng And also almaner Tythes what so euer of and in 

 the seyd lordship of Puryton to the offyce of the Chaumberleyn of the seyd 

 late Monastery perteynyng Wyth all and syngler theyr appurtenaunces / 

 Thadvouson of the vycarege there wardes maryages homages releyffes eschetes 

 bondmen to the same Manor belongyng courtes and letes of the seyed Manor 

 wyth all and syngler amercymentes and proffyttes what so euer extrayes 

 aboue the value of \js. viijc/. fynes of landes harryettes and rentes 



