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seith that he hard John Jaakes say that the said Jackes (sic) toke the Image 

 of the (sic) George oute of the church of Puryton and brought hym to Benet 

 Joys house by whose comaundement he knoith not. 



" Item to the second iijde iiijth vth and vj th Interrogatoris he knoith nothing. 



" Item to the vijth Interrogatory the said deponent seith that in the fellyng 

 of certen trees by the said Sir Edmund Bridgis the said Bennet Joy hath no 

 hurt nor damage 



"Item to the viij th artycle the said deponent saith that he herd the said 

 Sir Edmund sey that he wold recompence the said Bennet Joy for the cutting 

 of his calfes feete which was done vnknowen to the said Sir Edmund Bridgis 



"Item to the ix th article he saith he knoith nothyng 



" Item to the xth artycle the said deponent saith that the said Bennet Joys 

 wyffe was not born at the tyme of possession taking And to the rest of the 

 said artycle he knoith nothing 



" Item to the xjth artycle the said deponent saith that Gylis namyd in the 

 said Indenture shuld haue had the premisses before Isabell Joye And that 

 the said Isabell ys vnder the age of xxxiiij 1 * yeres And more he knoith not. 



"Item to the last Interrogatorie the said deponent saith that the said 

 Richard Pulley and John Franklyn were not frindes in one yere before the 

 said Pulleys deth. 



" John Hays clerk parson of Lydyatt Mylcent in the county e aforsaid of 

 the age of lxiiij yeres sworn and examenyd from the first to the ix th artycle 

 the said deponent knoyth nothing 



Item to the x th the said deponent saith that the said Isabell Joy was not 

 present at the delyuery of possession of the premisses nor namyd in the said 

 Indenture for she was not then borne / 



" Item to the xj th artycle he knoith nothing 



" Item to the last he saith that the said .Richard Polley and John Frankleyn 

 were'not fryndes by the space of one yere before the said Pulleys death. 



" Wyllyam Bobyns of Puryton aforsaid of the age of lx yeres sworn and 

 examenyd from the fyrst to the ixth Interrogatory saith he knoith nothing- 



"Item to the x th artycle he seith that he hard sey that Gylis was namyd 

 in the Indenture and not the said Isabell And sence the delyuery of possession 

 of the premisses hyt ys abought xxxvij yeres or more. And the said de- 

 ponent saith that the said Isabell [is] of the age of xxxiij yeres or therabought 

 and more he knoith not./ 



" Item to the last he saith that the said Franklein and Polley were not 

 fryndes as the last deponent before hath said And more he knoith not. 



"John Ware of Puryton aforsaid yoman of the age of xxxti yeres or ther 

 abought sworn and examenyd to the first artycle he saith that the same 

 deponent and John Jaakes dyd carye the Image of the George into the house 

 of Bennet Joy. 



" Item to all the rest of the Interrogatories he seith he knoith nothyng." 



John Bamsbury saith vpon hys othe as John Ware before hath said and 

 more he knoith not./ 



