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Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



vnto confessed and avoyded or trauersed ys true. / All which matterz the 

 seyd Compleynaunttes ar redy to auerre and proue as thys honourable Court 

 wyll award / And pray en as they before haued prayed in theyr seyd byll of 

 Compleynt. /" 



Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 

 Bundle I., No. 39. 



"The Keioyndre of Sir Edmound Brigges Knight vnto the replicacion of 

 Benet Joy and Isabell hys wyfTe. 



" The said Defendaunt saith in all and euery thyng as before he hath said 

 and avarryd in hys said aunswer And doth averr and meynteyne all and 

 every thyng materyall therin comprised to be good and true in maner 

 and forme as in the said awnswer ys alleagid without that that one of 

 the Church Wardens of the same Church of Puryton caused the said 

 Image to be brought to the said Mancion House of the said Compleyn- 

 auntes being an other of the Churchwardens as most vntruly in the 

 said replicacion ys alleagid Or that the said Image was leyd in a woll 

 house of the said Compleynauntes by the meanys of the said Church- 

 warden and the said John Ware Cunstable ther or by their comaunde- 

 ment And without that that the said John Precye was namyd and auctorised 

 attorney by the said surmysed dede Indentyd to delvuer possession and seisen 

 of the premyssez to the said Richard Margeret Ambrose Edmunde Elizabeth 

 and Gylys or did execute the same accordingly or made any lyuery of the 

 premisses to the dew forme and order of the lawe or that the said Elizabeth 

 was borne at the tyme of the said surmysed lesse made or lyuery gyven Or 

 that the said Defendaunt hath leyd any thyng in hys said awnswer to thentent 

 to stopp parte of the many fold wronges which he hath done to the pleyntyffes 

 or that he hath done any such wronges to the pleyntyffes as vntruly is alleagid 

 in the said replicacion and byll And without that the said Defendaunt hath 

 confessid the beatyng of the said Browne in his Awnswer to be in such soort 

 as in the said bill ys alleagyd Or that he dyd otherwise therin then he mought 

 lawfully doo. And without that that any of the trees of the said Defen- 

 dauntes lye in the grounde of the said Pleyntiffes in such soort as vntruly 

 and falsely in the said replicacion ys alleagid Or that upon any confession 

 of the Defendaunt touching the Bereward the Compleynauntes ar at any 

 hynderaunce or neded to susteyne any maner losse And without that that 

 the Pleyntyffes have byn glad to please the said Defendaunt or haue done 

 their dew and honest seruice as becomyd them to doo to the said Defendaunt 

 Or that the said Defendaunt doth mysvse or ivell entreate the same com- 

 pleynauntes for any suche purpose or entent as most sclaunderosely ys 

 alleagid in the said replicacion And without that that any other thyng 

 materyall in the said replicacion not reioyned vnto trauersed or avoyded ys 

 true All which matters &c. 



Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 

 Bundle I., No. 29. 



[To be continued.'] 



