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Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



Edwarde the Syxte [12th January, 1548-9] before Syr Henrye Long S r Anthony 

 Hungerford S r Wylliam Wroughton knyghtes and John Hanilyn esquier 

 Commissioners chosen and assigned for the same by vertue of [the] Kynges 

 maiesties commission to them dyrectyd from his Graces Counsell oute of the 

 Sterre Chambre bering date the xv th day of Decembre the yere aboue wrytten." 



" Thomas Browne of Puryton in the countie of Wiltes husbondman of the 

 age of lxxxij yeres or ther abought sworn and examenid to the first interro- 

 gatorie saith that he hard sey that Kichard Polley had a lesse made by the 

 said Abbott and covent to hym hys wyffe Ambrose Edmonde and Gylis of the 

 saide ffarme and parsonage as hytys namyd in the said Interrogatories sauing 

 only the teythe belonging to the howsez of Maubye Jaakes and Eeedes that 

 belongith to the farme and not to the parsonage And whether the said 

 Elizabeth namyd in the said Interrogatories were in the said lesse or not he 

 knowith not / And furder he knowith not. 



" Item to the second Interrogatorie he seith that he hard sey that S r John 

 Frankleyn clerk dely veryd possession of the said ffarme and other the premisses 

 according to the leasse made to the seid Kichard Polley and other namyd in 

 the lesse. 



" Item to the iij Interrogatorie he sayth that he knowith nothing. 



" Item to the iiij Interrogatorie he sayth that he hard sey that Sir Edmond 

 Bridgis did byd the iij tenauntez aboue namyd to stay and kepe ther tithes 

 going oute of their holdes vntyll the matter be tryed bytwyne the same Sir 

 Edmund and Benett Joy and more he knowith not. 



" Item to the v th Interrogatorie he knowith nothing. 



" Item to the vjt* 1 Interrogatorie he sayth that he neuer hard that the said 

 Benet Joy was denyed of the wood namyd in the said Interrogatorie 



" Item to the vij th Interrogatorie he seith that the said Sir Edmund Bridgis 

 fellyd certen trees to what nombre he knowith not Wherof the said Sir 

 Edmund hath ffott xxx loodes and more he knowith not." 



" John Hays clerk parson of Lydyat Mylcent in the Countie of Wiltes of 

 the age of lxiiij yers or theraboughtes sworn and examenyd to the first 

 Interrogatorie and second he seyth that he was present when Sir John 

 Frankleyn gaue the possession and seisen of the said ffarme and other the 

 premissez to the said Kichard Polley Margaret hys wyf Ambrose Edmunde 

 and Gylys namyd in the said lesse And that he hard noo other namyd in the 

 said lesse / And the said deponent saith that he and one Henrye Egmanton 

 clerk John Gleede and Thomas Goldsmyth were called for wytnesse to the 

 same. Which ys sence the delyuery of possession abought xxxvij yeres 

 past or more And the said deponent seith that consernyng the tythes he 

 knoith not but hyt longyd to the parsonage which was grauntyd by the same 

 lesse and more he knoith not 



" Item to the iij de Interrogatory he seith that soo forr as he knoith the said 

 Isabell was not borne at the tyme of possession takyng 



" Item to the iiij th and v th Interrogatorie he seith he knowith nothyng. 



