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playntyfe wiche was but oone yere he hathe knowen at sondry tymes kyllid 

 with handgonnes aboue xl. hennes and capons by the seruauntes of the saide 

 Mr. Bridges in the courte yarde of the mansion house of the playntyfes / 



" To the xiiij he saithe that within a while after . . . last past this 

 deponent and other the seruauntes of the saide playntyfes beinge in the kechin 

 by the fyer in the evening ther came in a pellet of gonne at the wyndowe 

 and strake oone of the pannes ther wher [at] he saith they wer all astonyd 

 And so lept vp to the wyndowe and ther sawe the said John Bridges with a 

 gonne in his hande vnder neth the same wyndow in the garden / 



" To the xv. he cannot depose / 



" To the xvi he saithe that in Lent last past this deponent beinge in the 

 courte yarde of the saide playntyfes sawe the bereward of the saide Mr. 

 Bridges and oone other with him whome he knewe not on the same grounde 

 callyd Wyndmyll Hill and ther had a calfe of the playntyfes of iiij dayes 

 olde betwene them / and so cut of his tayle by the rompe and the eares by 

 the hedde / and also the clawes of the fete of the same / wiche calfe is yet on 

 lyve as he saithe / 



" To the xvij he saithe that he was present in a close within the same 

 Wyndmyll Hill when the same bereward and dyuerse other of Mr. Bridges 

 seruauntes wer ther and dyd lett lose a bere and coursid him with dogges 

 ther / wherby he saithe the cattail ther pasturing made a greate bellowing 

 and ranne aboute the hill / and iij kyen ther greate with calfe within iij dayes 

 after dyd cast theyr calfes and dyed them selfes also within a sevenight after / 

 And saith he knew none of the persones therat but the bereward / And more 

 he knowith not / 



" To the xviij he saithe that he and Elizabethe Stradlinge woman seruaunt 

 in the house of the saide playntyfes standing aboue in a malt lofte of the 

 same house and casting of the same malte sawe James More oone of the 

 seruauntes of saide Mr. Bridges cast into the well ther a greate basket full of 

 dounge / wherby the water was stoppid And so this deponent being then 

 seruaunt ther dyd dense the same well ageyne / And more therof he knowith 

 not / 



"To the xix he saithe he herde Anthony Doswell saye that Mr. Bridges 

 had threatenyd him for workyng and laboring with the saide playntyfes so 

 that he durst worke no longer with him / 



" To the last he cannot depose / 



[Attested by mark.] 



" Elizabeth Stradling widowe of Bristowe in the countye of Gloucester 

 of thage of xl. yeres sworne &c. 



"To the first second and iij rd she saithe that at the tyme articuled this 

 deponent then being seruaunt to the said playntyfes sawe the same Mr. 

 Bridges accompanyd with Bradley Gabryel Kede oone More and other of his 

 seruauntes to the nomeber of a xij persones having swerdes and daggers 

 come to the mansion house of the playntyfes and ther in the yarde mett 

 George Browne seruaunt [in] the howse ther and askyd him for the Image 

 of St. George / wiche he answeryd he knewe not [wher] yt was The saide 



