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seyd byll of compleynt to haue been caried furth of the seyd ground / For 

 the seyd Compleynauntes sey that the seyd trees haue been fallen and ther 

 haue leyen and yet do there lye euer sythen Cristymas last past, without 

 that that the seyd Bereward named in the seyd byll of compleynt ys knowen 

 for an naturall fole or that he is a naturall fole in dede as ys vntruly allegid 

 in the seyd Aunswer / or that yf he were so that the seyd Defendaunt 

 knowyng the same myght lawfully kepe hym in such lyberalytie to hurt hys 

 neygbours / wherfore vppon the propre confession of the seyd Defendaunt they 

 demaunde iudgement with theyr costes and damages. / And forasmoch as 

 the seyd Defendaunt hath declared and confessed in hys seyd Aunswer the 

 cuttyng of the clawes of the seid calfe to be an naughty acte and to be doon 

 by the seyd Henry Brydges hys brother and by the seyd Bereward beyng 

 hys seruaunt the seyd Compleynauntes prayen therof remedye and their 

 iudgement. / With out that that the restraynyng of the seyd persons named 

 in the seyd byll of compleynt from the house and worke of the seyd Com- 

 pleynauntes is only by any naughtye or deuylysshe demeanyng of the seid 

 pleyntyffes or eyther of them as ys vntruely and sclanderously surmysed. / 

 Or that the seyd Isabell oon of the seyd pleyntyffes hath any detestable 

 condycions openly knowen to all the cuntrey there or otherwyse / or that she 

 ys of any detestable condycions as ys moost vntruely malycyously and 

 sclaunderously surmysed in the seyd Answer / And forasmoche as the seyd 

 Defendaunt hath so openly sclaunderid the seyd Isabell and not declared in 

 any thyng certen wherin she ys of yvyll or detestable condycions the seyd 

 compleynauntes prayen therof theyr iudgement with theyr costes and 

 damages. / without that that the seyd Compleynauntes or eyther of them 

 doith yvyll handle or vntruely deale with any pore men or laborers that 

 haue worked and labored with them or with any other or that they or any 

 of them by reason therof haue had any occasion to restrayne and not to 

 worke with the seyd playntyffes as is moost vntruely surmysed in the seyd 

 Aunswer./ or that any tennaunttes or other persons within the seyd lordschip 

 dyd com and repayre vnto or dyd any worke with the seyd pleyntyffes before 

 the commyng of the seyd Sir Edmund Brydges to the seyd lordschip for any 

 feare because the seyd pleyntyffes were then fermers of the seyd manor and 

 dyd rule or had in any bounden subiection all or any of the tenauntes of the 

 seyd lordschip as ys also vntruely imagyned in the seyd aunswer. / Or that 

 the seyd Compleynauntes do repugne or grudge at any of the seyd tenauntes 

 or at any othir person which desyre to please and to do due seruyce to the 

 seyd Defendaunt or that they by reason therof have caused any sclaunderous 

 or vntrue byll to be made ayenst the seyd Defendaunt. / For the seyd Com- 

 pleynauntes sey that they alwey haue been glade to please the seyd Defen- 

 daunt and have doon theyr due seruyce to hym contynually vntyll such tyme 

 as he began to handle and vse them in suche maner and sort as they have 

 declared in theyr seyd byll of compleynt. / And further they sey that the 

 seyd Defendaunt doith thus mysuse and mysdemeane them of a develysshe 

 malycious and vncharytable mynde to the only intent that he myght dryve 

 awey the seyd compleynauntes from the seyd ferme and to haue it hym selfe. / 

 Without that that any other thyng matteryall or effectuall in the lawe to be 

 replyed vnto conteyned in the seyd aunswer not herin suhicyently replied 



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