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Edmond hymself and oon Bradeley his seruante haue brokyn opyn the 

 seyd pound and putt out the seyd cattail / And also oon John Bridges and 

 James More seruauntes to the seyd Sir Edmond and by his commandement 

 at ij or iij seuerall tymes haue entred into the courte of your seyd subiectes 

 wyth a hand gun and then and there dyd shote and kyll with the seyd gun 

 the hennes and capons of youre seyd subiectes and dayly shoteth at his doves 

 and pultry And also he the seyd John Brydges dyd shote a pellett out of the 

 seyd gun into youre seyd subiectes kechyn by reason wherof youre seyd 

 supplyauntes ne eyther of them dare not abyde in theyr seyd house for daunger 

 of theyr lyves / And yet the seyd Sir Edmond not so contentyd of his further 

 malycyous mynd sythen youre seyd subiectes cam from theyr seyd house 

 hathe caused his seruauntes to put his horsez into the seuerall pasterz and 

 corne feydes of your seyd supplyauntes to eate and dystroye theyr corne and 

 gresse and doyth manesse and threpen your seyd supplyauntes seruauntes 

 that they ne any of them dare not dryve ne putt the seyd horsez out of the 

 corne and gresse of your seyd supplyauntes / 



And also the seyd Sir Edmund Brydgys of hys further malycious 

 mynde and develyshe intent aboute thexth daye of Marche last past [10th 

 March, 1547-8] hath procured and caused oon Henry Brydges hys brother 

 and hys Berewarde to cum and entre into a certein pasture called Wynde- 

 myll Hyll beying parcell of the premyssez where as your seyd subiectes 

 kyne and theyr calues were then and there pasturyng and to take oon 

 calfe of your seyd subiectes and to cutt the tayle of the same calue hard 

 by the rompe and to stone or cutt of the ereis of the same calue nere by 

 the hedde and also to cutt of the clawes of the fete of the same calue. / 

 And further the seyd Sir Edmunde Brydges hath at dyuerz and sundry tymes. 

 nowe of late caused and commaunded hys seyd Bereward and dyuerz other 

 of hys seruauntes to lede and brynge a beyre of hys into the seyd pasture 

 called Wyndemyll Hyll and the same persons dyd there lett the same beyre 

 lose and putt grett dogges at the same beyre so that by reason therof iij of 

 your seid subiectes kyne beyng then there in the same pasture and beyng 

 grett with calues dyd not only cast theyr calues but also the same kyne and 

 calues dyd then within iij or iiij dayes next ensuyng dye vppon such euyll 

 handlyng fere and chacyng as they then had by reason of the seyd beyre and 

 dogges so then beyng in the same pasture to the damages of your subiectes 

 of iiij poundes. / Also oon Jamys Moore and other of the seruantes of the 

 seyd Sir Edmund Brydges haue nowe lately to wytte aboute the xxvjth daye 

 of Februarye last past [26th February, 1547-8] by the procurement of the 

 seyd Sir Edmund Brydges cast downe and caried into a welle of your seid 

 subiectes beyng at hys seyd Mancion house oon cart lode of dunge and other 

 thynges which welle dyd serue hys seyd house aswell to brewe bake and to 

 dresse mete with all as for all other necessarye thynges in the same house 

 vsed. / so that by occasion therof the water of the same welle was clene 

 dystroyed vntyll the tyme your seyd subiectes dyd clene the same welle ayen./ 

 And furthermore where as oon John Ware Wylliam Webbe and John 

 Wevyngdyd at the request of your seyd subiectes nowe of late lye in hys seyd 

 house at such tyme as he was absent from the same the seyd Sir Edmund 

 Brydges hath nowe of late so threpened and manassed them that they ne 



