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restrayned the seyd pleyntyffes of hauyng of xx t! lodes of wodde in Bradon 

 Wodde yerely accordyng to the purport of the seyd Indenture of lease or 

 not / and howe long and duryng what tyme he hath so restrayned and kept 

 them from the seyd wodde. / 



" 12. Item wheder the seyd defendaunt hath caused Ixx trees to be cutt down 

 in oonof the seuerall pasture of the seyd pleyntyffes and hath suffred the same 

 trees to lye there ever sithen Cristynmas last past or not / and to what sum of 

 money you esteme the grasse to be of that ground which the seyd trees have 

 dystroyed in the same pasture by reason of lying thereof. 



" 13. Item wheder oon John Brydges and James More seruauntes to the 

 seyd defendaunt at ij or iij seuerall tymes haue entred in the court of the 

 seyd pleyntyffes with a hande gunne and then and there dyd shote and kyll 



with the seyd gunne hennes and capons of the seyd pleyntyffes or 



not / or howe many hennes and capons they then and there kylled and what 

 the same were worth. / 



" 14. Item wheder the seyd John Brydges dyd shote a pellett out of a 

 handegunne into the kechyn of the seyd pleyntyffes / theyr seruaunttes then 

 beyng in the same or not. / 



"15. Item wheder the seyd defendaunt hath caused hys seruauntes to putt 

 horses into seuerall pastures and corne feyldes of the seyd pleyntyffes or not / 

 and how many horses and howe often they were so putt in and what was 

 the corne worth that they haue eatyn of the seyd pleyntyffes. / 



" 16. Item wheder the seyd Sir Edmund Brydges aboutt the x th daye of 

 Marche last past procured and caused oon Henry Brydges hys brother and 

 hys seyd Bereward to come and entre into a certen pasture called Wynde- 

 myllhyll beyng parcell of the premyssez graunttid to the seyd pleyntyffes as 

 aforeseyd and then and there to take oon calue of the seyd pleyntyffes and to 

 cutt of the tayle of the same calue hard by the rompe and to stone or cutt of 

 the eares of the same calue nere by the hedde and also to cutt of the clawes 

 of the fete of the same calue or not. / and of what age the seyd calf was and 

 what he was worth. / 



" 17. Item whether the seyd Bereward and dyuers other of the seruauntes 

 of the seyd defendaunttes dyd lately lede and dryue a beare of the same 

 defendauntes into the seyd pasture called Wyndemylhyll and dyd there lett 

 the same beare lose and putt grett dogges at the same beare or not / and 

 wheder iij of the pleyntyffes kyne beyng then in the same pasture and beyng 

 grett with calues dyd cast theyr calues or not / and wheder both the same 

 kyne and calues dyed within iij or iiij dayes then next ensuyng after the seyd 

 yvyll handlyng feare and chacyng which they then had by reason of the seyd 

 beare and dogges so then beyng in the same pasture or not. / And what were 

 the names of the seid defendauntes seruauntes that so dyd the same and 

 wheder they dyd the same by the procurement of the seyd Sir Edmund or 

 not. / And what ye thynke the same kyne and calues were worth. / 



" 18. Item wheder the seyd James More and other of the seruaunttes of 

 the seyd defendauntes aboute the xxvj th daye of Februarye last past [1547-8] 

 dyd cast downe into a welle of the seyd pleyntyffes beyng at the seyd mancion 

 house of the same pleyntyffes oon cart lode of dunge and other thynges or 

 not. / and wheder the water of the same welle by occasion therof was clene 



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