202 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



stopped and dystroyed Vntyll the tyme the seyd pleyntiffes caused the same 

 welle to be clensed or not. / and wheder the same were doon by the cum- 

 mandement assent or procurement of the seyd defendaunt or not / and wheder 

 ye thynke in your conscience that the seyd Sir Edward (sic) were priuey 

 assentyng or agreying to the same or not. / 



" 19. Item wheder the seyd defendaunt hath so threapened and manassed 



oon Anthony Doswell beyng poore laboryng men 



which were accustomed to come and labor and to doo worke with the seyd 

 pleyntyffes for theyr hyre and wages that they ne any of them dare not nowe 

 come. and worke ne do any labour with the same pleyntyffes for feare of the 

 dyspleasure of the seyd defendaunt or not. / 



" 20. Item whether the seyd Sir Edmund Brydges hath stretly warned 

 forbydd and monysshed oon John Ware John Wevyng and Wylliam Webbe 

 who were accustomed to kepe the seyd mancion house of the seid pleyntyffes 

 when they were absent that they ne any of them shuldnomore lye in the seyd 

 mancion house of the seyd compleynauntes ne yet kepe the same / And 

 wheder the same Ware Wevyng and Webbe or any of them at any tyme 

 sythen the seyd monycion kept or leyn in the same house or not. /" 



Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 

 Bundle I., No. 39. 



" Ex. xiij 0 Nouembris " Examinacio testium facta super [interrogatoriis] 

 An 0 secundo E. vj u . [13th per Benedictum Jey ministratis. 



Nov., 1548.] 



" John Messenger of Puriton in the [county] of Wiltes' yoman of thage 

 of xlij yeres [and] aboue sworne, &c. 



"To the first second iij" 1 iiij th and v th he sayeth he cannot depose to the 

 contentes of thes interrogatories. / 



" To the vj th he saithe that by all the tyme of his remembrance whiche is 

 aboute a xxx yeres this deponent hathe knowen that Bichard Pulley father 

 to Isabell Jeye oone of the complainauntes during his lyfe dyd occupye and 

 enioye the ferme the of same manor of Puryton with the parsonage 

 of Puriton vnder the late abbotes for the tyme being of the late mon- 

 astry of Malmesbury, and dyd percyue receyve and take the profettes 

 and commodyties therof by all his lyfe tyme / And after his decease 

 whiche was a xv or xvi yeres paste Margaret Pulley his wife dyd 

 occupie and enioye the same during her lyfe tyme / And after her decease 

 whiche was aboute a iij yeres past the same Isabell now complainaunt her 

 daughter dyd occupie the same and hath euersythe enioyed the same in 

 peaseable [maner] / And this deponent neuer herde the contrary but that 

 they haue so occupied and enioyed the same by vertue of an Indenture of 

 lease to them made therof by the late abbote and covent of Malmesbury / 

 And ne contradiction made therin by any persone to his knoledge as he saithe / 

 And more towchinge this interrogatory he canne not depose /. 



"To the vij th he saithe he herde John Precye saye that he was attorney 

 namyd in the same Indenture to delyuer seison and possession of the same 

 premisses / and that he accordingly dyd delyuer possession therof vnto the 



