222 Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



And saith that he beinge ruonke professid in the same house of Malmesbury 

 in the vijth yere of the reigne of the late Kinge of famouse memory Henry 

 the viij th . and now xxxiij yeres past or somewhat more was present in the 

 Chapter House of the saide late Monastry emongest other his cobretherne 

 ther At what tyme the same Indenture so to the personnes aboue naniyd 

 made was ther redde and by the hole convent then ther assemblyd agreed 

 vpon and so sealyd withe the Convent Seale And afterwarde also sealyd with 

 the Abbotes Seale as he herde saye / And . . . ther was reseruid vpon 

 the same lease to [his present] remembrance the yerely rent of xxiii 1 ' to 

 the [same] Abbote and convent of Malmesbury / And more therof he cannot 

 depose / 



" To the iiijth he saithe that after the same lease so made he knew the 

 same Eichard Pulley by vertue ther of in peaseable possession and occupie 

 the same by the space of a xj yeres after vntyll he dyed And after his 

 decease the same Margaret his wife by the space of an xviii yeres after occupyed 

 and enioyed the same / vntyll she dyed And sythe hir tyme by the space 

 of this iiij yeres he hathe knowen the same Isabell and her said husband now 

 complaynauntes to occupie the same by vertue of the same lease / 



"To the vth he saithe he knowith perfytly well that the same Eichard 

 Pulley and Margaret his wife Ambrose Edmond and Gyles theyre childerne 

 be all dede And that the same Isabell now complaynaunt as survivor is in 

 possession and dothe occupie the same premisses by vertue of the same lease / 



"To the vj 1 * he saithe that the same Isabell now complainaunt [is of] 

 thage of xxxvj yeres or nere theraboutes As this deponent saithe that he 

 beinge monke of Malmesbury dyd muche resorte to the house of the saide 

 Eichard Pulley her father And dothe remember that before the makyng of 

 the same lease he sawe the same Isabell then a very yonge gyrle of a ij or 

 iij yeres of age playing vp and downe in her saide fathers house / 



" To the vij th he saithe the same Indenture of lesse before specifyed is a 

 trew dede and the very dede of the Abbot and convent of the same late house 

 of Malmesbury wiche this deponeut sawe sealyd as he hath predeposid And 

 by reporte saithe that possession therof was delyuered accordingly by Sir 

 John Frankelyn vicar of Puryton / 



"To the viij he saith he knowith that Sir Edmond Bridges hathe stayed 

 the rent of the same xix acres specifyed in this Interrogatory frome the saide 

 complainauntes./ 



" To the last he saithe the contynewance of the possession of the same 

 Lordeship of Puryton with the parsonage hathe contynewyd in the same 

 Eichard Pulley Margarett his wife and the same Isabell euer syth the grante 

 of the same lease / withoute the interruption of any persone to his knoledge 

 vntyll this present strife as he saithe./ 



[Attested] By me Thomas Weshburn " 



" Agnes Smith, alias . . . widowe of Puryton aforesaid of thage of 

 of lx yeres [and] aboue sworne &c. 



" To the first she saithe that she hathe knowen the same Lordeship of 

 Puryton and the landes therto belonging by all the tyme of her remembrance 

 wiche is by the space of this .1. yeres as she saithe / 



" To the second and iij r d she saithe that she hathe sondry tymes herde 



