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said Defendaunt saith that the said Pleyntyffes occupieng the said parcell of 

 x j x tene acres 0 f i an( j a t the will of the said Defendaunt and not by any lease 

 or lawfull interest And vppon dyscharge yeven to them by the said De- 

 fendaunt they did clerely give up the same into thandes of the said Defendaunt 

 at a coort holden at Puryton aforesaid in the presence of diverse ther. And 

 withoute that the said Edmounde Brigges hath denyed or restreyned the 

 Pleyntyffes of having of certen woodes in Braadon according to the purport of 

 their surmysed leasse but the said Defendaunt saith that that he hath permytted 

 and given to the said Pleyntyffes for every ther lodes of woodd demanded 

 asmoch as xvj oxen could drawe awey vp an hyll adioyning to the same wodd 

 called Bradon. Or that the said Defendaunt hath sufferid or doth suffer 

 certen his trees which he hath cutt doune as lawfull was for him soe to doo 

 to lie fur purpose to destroye the grasse of the said Pleyntyffes but hath and 

 doth and so myndyth to carie the same awey with asmoch spede as he may 

 haue cariage and as the tyme of the yere shall serue And withoute that the 

 bereward and Coke of the said defendaunt haue ether broken or caried awey 

 the hedges of the said Pleyntyffes from their severall pastur to the defendauntes 

 knowleage or that by reason of any suche actes the corne of the said Pleyn- 

 tyffes hath bin destroid by the catell of the said Defendaunt or any other 

 persons as vntrulie ys alleagid Or that the said Defendaunt vpon the 

 pounding of the said cattell or any other persons by the said Pleyntyffes hath 

 broken any pounde or caused any such pounde to be broken or so delyverid 

 any cattell ther being ageinst any lawe therof provided Or that one Bridges 

 and Jamys More seruauntes to the said Sir Edmound dyd at any tyme by 

 the comaundement of the said Sir Edmound or otherwise enter into the coort 

 of the said Pleyntyffes or ther did shote at or kill any ther hennes or kapons 

 with a hand gunne or that they doo or have daylie shott at the doves or 

 pultrie of the said Pleyntyffes as verie naughtelie and contrarie to all truth is 

 surmysed and alleaged Aud withoute that the sayd Briges dyd at any tyme 

 shoote a pellot out of a hand gunne into the kyechin of the said compleyn- 

 auntes to the said Defendauntes knowleage Nor that therbie the said 

 Pleyntyffes haue any pecacion to absent them selvis from their howsez for 

 daunger of their livis Or that the said Defendaunt at any tyme hath caused 

 his tenauntes to put their horsis into the severall pasture and corne fyldes 

 of the said Pleyntyffes to thentent to destroie their corne or grasse nor that 

 they were put ther at any tyme And without that the said Defendaunt the 

 said tenth day of March last past or at any other tyme did procur and cause 

 the said Henrie Bridges his brother being a child of tenne yeres of age and 

 his bereward or any of them to goo into a certen parcell of pastur called 

 Wyndmyll Hyll being parcell of the premisses whereas the said Pleyntyffes 

 supposed ther kyne and calves to bee or that theie then by the said Defen- 

 dauntes comaundement toke one calf of the said Pleyntyffes or cuttof the 

 tayle of him / or cutof the yeares of the said calf nere by the hedd or cutt his 

 clawes by any comaundement appoyntment or condiscent of the said 

 Defendannt as most sclaunderosely is also surmysed For the same Defen- 

 daunt saith he was never acknolege therof nor at home when the same was 

 done. But vpon relacion thereof made to him he did not onlie correct his 

 said brother being a verie childe and his seruaunt the bereward which is 



