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Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



with force and armes riotously and ayenst your peace assembled themselfes 

 togeyther at Puryton aforeseyd and then and there in forcyble maner arayed 

 that is to say with staves swyrdes and other weapens of warre with force and 

 armes riotously ayenst your peace dyd forcybly entre into the dwellyng house 

 of your seyd oratours at Puyrton aforeseyd parcell of the premysses your 

 seyd oratourz beyng bothe absent from theyr seyd house / and apon George 

 Browne Jane Webbe and Agnes Symkes beyng seruantes to your seyd 

 supplyantes then beyng within the seyd house in goddes peace and yours with 

 force and armes riotously dyd make an assaulte and them then and there dyd 

 beate and putt in danger of theyr lyves / And aftur the seyd riotous entre in 

 forme aforeseyd so made the seyd riotous persons dyd breke open a wolle 

 house dore of your seyd oratourz there contraiy to your highnes lawes and 

 peace / And the vth daye of the moneth of February last past [5th Feb., 

 1547-8] aboutes mydnyght oon James More John Edward and oon Pyrry 

 servauntes of the seyd Sir Edward Bridges and by his commandement at 

 Puryton aforeseyd with lyke force and armes riotously and forcybly 

 dyd breke and entre into the duff house of your seyd orators and 

 all the dowves of your seyd orators beyng above iij c cowple then 

 and there dyd kyll dystroye and feare awey to the vtter decaye and 

 dystruccion of the seyd duff house / And also the seyd S r Edmond Brydges 

 doyth comonly vse to put his horsez into the Courte of your seyd orators 

 amonges his cattail to eate and destroye suche haye as the catall of your seyd 

 oratourz be fothered with / and hath so beaten and threapened the seruantes 

 of your seyd orators beyng at ploughe and aboute theyr other laufull busynes 

 so that they or any of them dare scasely goo out of the house / And yet the 

 seyd Sir Edmond Brydges of his further malyce at Eastur last past wold not 

 suffre your seyd subiectes to resceyue suche tythes as were to them due in 

 the seyd parysshe of Puryton byforce of theyr seyd indentur / but kepeth 

 the same from youre seyd oratours ayenst all right and conscyence and also 

 the seyd Sir Edmond Bridges hath vnlawfully entred into xix acres of land 

 at Puryton aforeseyd parcell of the premysses demysed by the seyd indentur 

 and the same doyth occupye and taketh the proffyttes thereof to his owne vse 

 without any laufull tytle thervnto / and also where your seyd orators ought 

 to haue yerely xx loodes of wood for parte of theyr fuell to be taken of and in 

 the wood of Bradon aforeseyd the seyd Sir Edmond Brydges wyll not suffre 

 youre seyd subiectes to fell and cary awey the seyd xx loodes ne any parte 

 therof but the same doyth vtterly denye and withhold from youre seyd 

 supplyauntes / and also the seyd Sir Edmond hathe caused lxx trees and moo 

 to be cutt downe in oon of the seuerall pasters of youre seyd orators and 

 there letteth them lye to dystroye the gresse of your seyd orators to his grete 

 losse and damage / and also the Bereward and Cooke of the seyd Sir Edmond 

 do dayly breke vp and cary awey the hedges of your seyd supplyauntes 

 from his seuerall pasterz so that by reason therof aswell the cattail 

 of the seyd Sir Edmond as the catall of other persons do eate vp 

 and dystroye the corne and gresse of youre seyd subiectes to theyr 

 grete losse and hyndraunce / And also at suche tymes as your seyd subiectes 

 haue inpoundyd any cattail of the seyd Sir Edmondes or of any other persons 

 for suche trespassez as they haue don in theyr corne and gresse the seyd Sir 



