154 Pur ton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



knowen a naturall foole but considering the naughtie act done by them he 

 sent his seruauntes with a crowne of v s to the said Pleyntyffes to recompence 

 them for their calf which was but ij dayes old not worth soo moch money to 

 all mens iudgment Or that the said Defendaunt at any tyme hath comaunded 

 or cawsed his said bereward or any other his servauntes to leade or bring 

 any beare of his into the same pasture called Wyndmyll Hyll or that any 

 such bere was thither brought to the knowleadge of the said Defendaunt at 

 any tyme or that the same beere was ther lett loose or that any dogges were 

 ther put to him or that any such act or thing was done by reason wherof the 

 said Pleyntyffes [kyne] in the same pastur being great with calf dyd cast 

 their calvis Or that any such kyne and calvis diedd within iij or iiij daies by 

 such meanis as is also vntruly declared or that the said Pleyntyffes by reason 

 of any such thing susteyned any damage losse or hinderaunce Or that Jamys 

 More or any other the seruauntes of the said [Defendaunt] abought the 

 xxv th day of Februarie last past by the procurement of the said Sir Edmound 

 or otherwise to his knowleage did cast downe or carie into a well of the said 

 Pleyntyffes one cart loode of doung or any other thing or that any such act 

 was done wherby the water in the said well was destroied or that for the same 

 the said Pleyntyffes neded to dense hit. Nor that the said Defendaunt hath 

 at any tyme feared or thretenyd John Ware AVilliam Webb and John Wevyng 

 soo that by any such meanis they have refreyned to come or lie in the house 

 of the said Pleyntyffes but that yf such restrayning be by the said parties 

 hit is onlie by the naughtie and divelyshe demeaning of the said Pleyntyffes 

 specyally the said Isabell whose detestable condicions ar openlie knowen to 

 all the cuntrey Nor that the said Ware Webb and Weving doo wythdrawe 

 them sealvis for fearre of ther lyvis from the house of the said Pleyntyffes 

 nor that any suche occacion hath ever byn [g]yven by the said defendaunt 

 or any other his seruantes as vntruly is alleagid And without that the said 

 Defendaunt hath so manassed the said Pleyntyffes seruauntes that they dare 

 not go abought the necessarie businesse of the said Pleyntyffes Or that the 

 said Defendaunt hath by any such meanis occasioned the said Pleyntyffes 

 hynderaunce of the seruice in husbandrie of his seruauntes or that they have 

 anye cause of feare of bodelie hurt mynystred at the said Defendauntes 

 handes or by his procurement or sufferaunce Or that the said Defendaunt 

 doth or at any time hath manassed any laborers or workmen coming to the 

 said compleynauntes being other their neighbors or other foreiners or that by 

 any such meanis the pleyntyffes haue lost and susteyned hinderaunce in 

 their work or that any such laborers or workmen dare not work 

 with the said Compleynauntes for feare of their livis or that any 

 such occacion hath bin to them given by the said Defendaunt as 

 in the said bill most vntrulie is alleagid Nor that by reason of any 

 manassing the said Compleynauntes ar anything hinderyd. of the 

 having of their neybours or adioyment [of] laborers to work with them or 

 travell in their necessarie doinges Or that in harvest tyme next comyng 

 the said Pleyntyffes shall have or susteyne any maner of hinderaunce by the 

 said Defendaunt as vntrulye by them ys alleagid But yf any such preiudice 

 or hinderaunce or like myshapp chaunce to the said Pleyntyffes it ys and 

 wilbe onlie by ther owne procurement and purchasse for that their evell and 



