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same Kichard Pulley and the resideue namyd in the same Indenture aboute 

 a xxxij or xxxiij yeres past /. 



" To the viij he cannot depose /. 



" To the ix he cannot depose /. 



" To the x th he saithe that the same xix acres mencyoned in this interrogatory 

 haue allwayes by all the tyme of his remembraunce byn occupied by the 

 fermors of the same manor of Puryton / But whether the saide Mr. Bridges 

 hathe or dothe now take the profettes therof he saithe he knowith not /. 



" To the xj he cannot depose /. 



"To the xij he saithe that the same Sir [Edmund] Bridges hathe felly d 

 certen trees vpon the [land] of the complainauntes wherof he saithe the 

 [most parte] he hathe carryed awaye and some yet [remain] ther behinde / 

 And he supposithe no great [hurt] or losse to be in the grasse of the [com- 

 plainauntesj ther by lyeng of the trees ther /. 



" To the xiij and all the reside we of thes interrogatories he saith he can 

 nothinge depose." 



[Attested by mark.'] 



" William Eobbyns of Puriton aforesaid husbandman of thage of Ix. yeres 

 sworne, &c. 



" To the first second iij iiij and v th he cannot depose to thes interrogatories 

 " To the vj th he saithe that he hathe byn inhabitant in Puriton by the space 

 of xx li yeres. In the wiche tyme he saithe he hathe knowen that the same 

 Eichard Pulley during his lyfe tyme dyd occupie and enioye the same manor 

 of Puriton and the parsonage of Puriton with all thappurtenaunces as fermor 

 to the late abbotes of Malmesbury for the tyme being and after his decease 

 Margaret his wife dyd occupie and enioye the same by the space of [a] dosen 

 yeres vntyll she dyed / And after her decease whiche was aboute a iij yeres 

 past the same Isabell her daughter now complainaunt dyd enter the same 

 and hathe euersythe occupied and enioyed the same quyetly withoute any 

 contradiction / And this, deponent neuer herde the contrary / but that they 

 have enioyed the same successyvely by vertue of an indenture therof made 

 to them frome the same late abbotes of Malmesbury / And more therof he 

 knowith not. / 



" To the vij th he saith he hathe herde John Precy saye that he was an 

 attorney namyd in the same dede indentyd and dyd delyuer seisyn and 

 possession of the same premysses accordingly /. 



" To the viij he cannot depose /. 



" To the ix he cannot depose /. 



" To the x th he saithe that trew yt is that the same Sir Edmond Bridges 

 hathe enterid into the same xix acres mencyoned in this interrogatory by the 

 name of borde Lande / whiche this deponent saithe that he hathe knowen 

 the fermors of the manor of Puriton allwayes occupie as parcell of theyr f erme / 



" To the xj he cannot depose / 



"To the xij he saithe the same Sir Edmond hathe fellyd certen trees for 

 fewell vpon the grounde of the ferme of the saide [pleyntyfes which] he hathe 

 carryed awaye to this deponentes [knowledge] / 



