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kyll dystroye and feare-awey or not. / or how many dowffes they dyd kyll 

 feare and dryue awey, and what the same doues that were then and there 

 dystroyed and feared awey were worth. / 



" 5. Item how often tymes the seyd defendaunt hath putt hys horses into 

 the Court of the seid pleyntyffes amonges theyr cattail and wheder the same 

 horses by such puttyng in haue eatyn and dystroyed such hey as the pleyn- 

 tyffes cattail were fothered with all or not. / 



" 6 Item whether the late abbott and couent of the late monasterye of 

 Malmesbury in the countie of Wyltes by theyr dede indentid sealed with the 

 couent seales of the seyd abbott and couent beryng date the iiij th daye of 

 Septembre in the vij th yere of the reygn of o r late souerayn lord Kyng Henry 

 the viij th by oon assent and concent dyd demyse grauntte and lett to ferme 

 to oon Rychard Pulley and Margarett hys wyfe and to Ambrose Edmond 

 and to the seyd Isabell oon of the compleynauntes and Gyles their childern 

 named in the seyd indenture and byll the seyd scyte of the seyd manor of 

 Puryton with thappurtenaunces and the parsonage of Puryton aforseyd with 

 all tythez and landes to the seyd scyte and parsonage perteynyng vsed or 

 belongyng and also all maner tythez what so euer of and in the seid lordship 

 of Puryton to the offyce of the Chamberleyn of the seyd late monasterye 

 perteynyng with all and synguler theyr appurtenaunces speciefied in the seyd 

 Indenture and not exceptid out of the seyd lease. / To haue and hold all the 

 seyd manor and other the premyssez / except the thynges in the seyd In- 

 denture exceptid / to the seyd Rychard Margarett Ambrose Edmund Isabell 

 and Gyles in maner and forme as in the byll of compleynt of the seyd 

 pleyntyffes therof made ys allegid or not. / And wheder the seyd Indenture 

 be not a true Indenture and the very dede of the seyd abbot and couent or 

 of the more part of them or not. / 



" 7. Item wheder the seyd John Precye named and auctoryzed oon of the 

 attorneys in the seid dede indentid to delyuer possession and seysen to the 

 seyd Rychard Margarett Ambrose Edmund Isabell and Gyles dyd delyuer 

 seysen or possession to them or to any of them of and in the seyd ferme 

 landes tenementes and other the premyssez so leassed or demysed or not. / 



" 8. Item wheder the seyd Isabell now compleynaunt and named in the 

 seyd Indenture of lease were borne and had her byrth at the tyme of the 

 seyd delyuere of seysen or possession or not. / 



"9. Item wheder the seyd Sir Edmund at Easter last past dyd perceyue 

 or take to his own vse with out the wylle and concent of the seyd pleyntyffes 

 such tythez as were and yet be to them due in the parysshe of Puryton 

 aforseyd byforce of the seyd Indenture of lease therof to the seyd Isabell and 

 other so made or not / and what tythez it were and to what sum of money 

 the same tythez so by the seyd defendaunt taken do arryse and amount vnto./ 



" 10. Item wheder the seyd Sir Edmond Brydges hath entred into xix 

 acres of land at Puryton aforseyd beyng parcell of the scyte of the manor 

 of Puryton with thappurtenaunces so demysed by the seyd Indenture of 

 lease and the same doith occupye and taketh the profittes therof to hys owne 

 vse or not. and what the same ar worth by yere and wheder the same haue 

 been heretofore occupied by the fermers of the seid manor or not. / 



"11. Item wheder the seyd Sir Edmund Brydges hath denyed or 



