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most vntrue dealing with pore men causith them to refreyne and not to 

 work with the said Pleyntyffes which before tyme they have done only for 

 feare because the said pleyntyffes being farmors of the said manor before the 

 coming of the said Sir Edmund Briges to the same as aforesaid did rule and 

 had in most bounden subiection all or most part of the tenauntes of the said 

 lordship wher now they [ar] desierose to please and doo their dew seruice to 

 the said Sir Edmound the said Pleyntyffes repyning and grudgyng greatly at 

 the same haue made and caused this most sclaunderose and vntrue bill 

 to be made And without that the said Defendaunt at any tyme causid his 

 gottes being but ij to be put into any the corne of the said Pleyntyffes or that 

 they at any tyme came into any parcell of the corne Or that yf they were or 

 came thither that the said Pleyntyffes had euer any maner of occacion given 

 whie they shuld feare their livis in putting or chasing the saide gootes oute 

 of the saide corne nor that the said ij gootes had bin in the said corne that 

 therby the Pleyntyffes had or cold haue any such hinderaunce or grett losse 

 therin as most vntruly is alleagid for that the said Defendaunt hath not had 

 the said ij gottes aboue fortnight next before Whytsontyde last past And 

 without that the said Defendaunt ys gyltie of any ryott force or other mysde- 

 meanour supposed to be done by the said Defendaunt in the said bill of 

 Compleynt And without that any other matters in the said most sclaunderose 

 bill not traversed nor confessid and avoided nor awnswerid vnto is true in 

 any parte therof &c." 



Endorsed : 



" Watson of the Inner Temple." 



Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 

 Bundle 7., No. 39. 



" The [replicaci] on of Bennett Jey and Isabell hys wyf[e to the awnsw]er 

 of Sir Edmund Brydges Knyght 



" The seyd compleynauntes sey that the byll of compleynt ys certen true 

 and suffycyent in the Lawe to be aunswerid vnto and that the matters therin 

 conteyned ar not sclaunderously sett [forth] by the seyd Compleynauntes to 

 any such intent and purpose as in the seyd answer ys vntruely surmysed. / 

 And further seyen in all and euery thyng as they before haue seyd in theyr 

 seyd byll of Compleynt and doo auerre and maynteyn all and euery thyng 

 materyall therein comprised to be good and true in maner and forme as in 

 the same byll ys declared. / Without that that the seyd Browne named in the 

 seyd Aunswer or any of the seruauntes of the seyd Compleynauntes dyd 

 steyle the seyd Image of Seynt George out of the seyd Church of Puryton as 

 ys sclaunderously and malicyously surmysed for the seyd Compleynauntes 

 seyen that oon of the Church Wardens of the same Churche of Puryton 

 caused the seyd Image to be brought to the seyd Mancion House of the seyd 

 Compleynauntes / the seyd Compleynauntes then beyng absent from the 

 seyd house for that that the seyd Benett Jey was an other of the Churche 

 Wardeyns of the same Churche. / Without that that the seyd Brown or any of the 

 seruauntes of the seyd Compleynauntes vppon any examynacion confessed any 

 such takyng or steylyng of the seyd Image as ys vntruely surmysed. / Or that 



