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Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



Mr. Bridges sayng Thou [lying] knave and so toke him by the hedde and 

 gave him two or thre blowes / And so went into the buttry and ther bett 

 Jane Webbe bycause she wolde not tell wher her mystres was and threw her 

 agynst a cupbord that her bodye was blake and blewe wiche she saithe she 

 sawe / And so frome thens he went to the kechin And ther bett Agnes Symkes 

 And so bycause he coulde not gett the keye of the woll house / he brake 

 open the dore with a pyked staffe and enteryd thereat and toke furth the 

 ymage of St. George and so departyd / And more therof she knowith not / 



"To the iiij th she saithe that at the tyme articuled or nere therabout and 

 aboute x. of the clocke in the nighte tyme this deponent lokyng furthe at the 

 wyndowe mighte se James More and ij or iij mo with him brekyng open of 

 the dovehouse dore and fearing awaye the doves being a boue a c cople and 

 so toke awaye the younge doves wherat her saide mystres lokyng furth at 

 her chamber wyndowe sayde yt w r er better that I lost my doves then you 

 shulde lose your occupation / And so after the saide persones wer gone 

 her said mystres went to the saide Mr. Bridges to complayne therof this 

 deponent and other wayting on her thither / And more she can not depose / 



" To the v th she saithe the same Mr. Bridges horses hath sondry tymes 

 come into the playntif es courte and eaten vp the f oder ther gy ven to his cattail / 



" To the vj th vij and viij she cannot depose / 



" To the ix and x she saithe she cannot perfytly depose / 



" To the xi she saithe that she knowith that Mr. Bridges dyd denye and 

 wolde not suffer the playntifes seruauntes to fatche any wood in Bradon 

 Wood wher he was accustomyd to have yerely xx li loodesof wood as she saithe/ 



" To the xij th she saithe that ther lyeth xxij trees felly d on the grounde and 

 dothe hurte the grounde and kepith yt from grasyng to the annoyaunce of 

 the playntifes as she saithe / 



" To the xiij she saithe that in the tyme that she was seruaunt to the saide 

 playntyfes she hathe knowen the saide Mr. Bridges seruauntes kyll in the 

 courte yard of the playntifes of his hennes and capons above lx. as she saithe/ 

 and dyd almost dayly vse so to kyll with ther handgonnes the hennes and 

 capons ther beinge / 



" To the xiiij she saithe she was present in the same kechin at the shoting 

 of the same pellet in therto / And saithe therin as John Symes hath pre- 

 deposid / 



" To the xv. she saithe the same Mr. Bridges horses hathe of ten tymes byn 

 in the playntifes corn feldes / And more thereof she knowith not / 



" To the xvj she saithe [she sawe] the same playntifes calfe beinge but a 

 sevenight olde havinge his eares cut by the hedde and the tayle by the rompe 

 and the clawes also cut of wiche was done by John Bridges as she herde 

 saye / And more therof she knowith not / 



"To the xvij she saithe she sawe Mr. Bridges bereward and dyuerse other 

 with him course a bere on the same Wyndmyll Hill whereby she saithe that 

 iij kyen then ther pasturing beinge sore chasyd therwyth dyd cast theyre 

 calfes and dyed within a sevennight after / And more therof she knowith 

 not / 



" To the xviij she saithe that she was present in a malte loft with her 

 precontestis and sawe James More cast in the same dounge in to the well 



