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Margarett his wyfe . . . before nanryd to whom the said lese . . 

 were sesid of . . . osid and grauntid in there demesne . . . lyves 

 lese or demyse before the Dissolution] . . . the said late . . . they 

 were who were seysid therof./ 



"v Whether the said Eichard Pulley Margarett his wyfe [Ambrose 

 Edmond] and Gyles be deade / And whether the said Isabell wyfe [of] the 

 saide Benett Joye [be the survivor] of [all] the said lessees / And whether 

 the said Benett [Joye] and Isabell be in ... of the [premisses] so 

 demysed and graunted / And ho we longe [they] haue byn seysid therof /. 



" vj Item whether these deponentes do knowe what age the said Isabell 

 wyfe to the said Benett Joye ys And yf they do of what age she is of / And 

 whether the said Isabell was borne before the said lease was made or not./ 



" vij Item yf these deponentes have seen any suche Indenture or lease as 

 ys before recyted whether the same be a true dede and the vere dede of the 

 said late Abbot and Covent or of the more parte of them And whether they 

 knowe or have harde that possession of the premisses so demised and grauntid 

 was delyuered according to the tenor and purport of the same Indenture And 

 yf it were who delyuered possession therof / And whether these deponentes 

 or any of them were present and prevey when the same dede was delyuered 

 as the dede of the same late Abbott and Covent./ 



"viij Item whether the said Sir Edmond Brydges hathe entrid into xix acres 

 of lande at Puryton forsaid parcell of the scyte of the said manor of Puryton 

 with thappurtenaunces so demysid by the said Indenture of lease and the 

 same dothe occupye and taketh the profittes therof to his owne vse And 

 what the same are worthe by the yare./ 



" ix Item whether the persones before rehersid to whom the said lease 

 was made or some of them haue euer sythen the same lease made byn in 

 possession of the said scyte and other the premisses so demysid and graunt 

 by reason of the same lease and inyoyed the same withowt lett troble or 

 disturbaunce tyll nowe of late that the said Sir Edmond hathe wrongfully 

 vexid and trobled the said Benett Joye and Isabell in the premisses./ 



Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI., 

 Bundle L, No. 39. 



" Ex. xvto Marcij [Super interrogatoriis] per Joye secundo loco 



An° iij° E. vjti ministratis. 

 [15 March, 1548-9.] 



"Thomas Wa[shbu]rne of Malmesbury in the county of Wiltes' Clarke 

 of thage of lxj yeres sworne &c. 



"To the first he saithe he knoith perfytly well the same Lordeship of 

 Puryton and that the same dyd belong to the late Monastery of Malmesbury 

 wherof this deponent was monke professid by the space of xvj yeres And 

 hathe known the same Lordship of Puryton by the space of xl. yeres as he 

 saith. 



" To the second and iijrd he saithe that he hathe seene the Indenture of 

 of lease of the saide Lordeship of Puryton and parsonage of Puryton so made 

 to the same Kichard Pulley Margaret his wife Ambrose Edmond and Isabel 

 ther childerne in maner and forme as yt ys deducyd in this Interrogatory 



