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the same lease mencyoned in this Indenture redde in the Lordes Courte 

 ther wherin yt apperid that the same Lordship of Puryton with thappur- 

 tenaunees and the parsonage of Puryton was lette and demised by thabbot 

 and convent of Malmesbury for the tyme being vnto the saide Richard Pulley 

 Margaret his wyfe Edmond Ambrose Isabell find Gyles theyre childerne for 

 terme of theyr lyves and the longest lyver of them vpon the yerely rent of 

 xxiip. And the same lease was so made as she saithe xxxiij yeres ago. And 

 that she saithe she remembrith for that the yere before that the saide Richard 

 Pulley obteynid the same lease this Deponent broughte furthe two childerne 

 at oone byrthe wiche is now xxxiiij yeres ago as she saithe / 



"To the iiij th she saithe she knew the same Richard Pulley occupie the 

 same premisses by vertue of the saide lease by all his lyfe tyme after / wiche 

 was aboute a xj yeres and after his decease the same Margarett Pulley 

 occupied the same xvj yeres togethers vntyll she dyed. Sythe the wiche 

 tyme the now complainauntes have occupied the same by the space of this 

 iiij yeres / 



"To the v th she [saithe that] trew yt is that the same Richard Pulley 

 M [argaret hi]s wife Edmond Ambrose and Gyles theyre chyldern be all dede 

 And that the same Isabell now complainaunte is the survivor and in possession 

 of the same premisses by vertue therof / 



" To the vj th she saithe that the same Isabell is of thage of xxxvj yeres and 

 was borne in the same yere that this deponent had a childe callyd Thomas 

 wiche Thomas shalbe xxxvj yeres of age at Whitsuntyde nexte In the wiche 

 yere she saithe that the soldyers of England went into Scotland to batayle 

 and the Scotyshe Kyng was ther slayne / [Battle of Flodden Field, 9th 

 Sept., 1513.] 



"To the vij she saith by reporte of Thomas Goldsmith that Sir John 

 Frankelyn deceasyd then vicar of Puryton dyd delyuer possession of the same 

 farme to the saide Pulley and thother before namyd / And more therof she 

 knowith not / 



" To the viij she saithe she knowith that Sir Edmond Bridges hathe denyed 

 the occiipieng of the same xix acres vnto the saide playntyfes And this 

 deponent saithe that she knew John Calfe and Richard Wootely fermers 

 therof and paye the rent for the same xix acres vnto the saide Richard Pulley 

 in his lyfe tyme and afterward to Margaret Pulley / 



" To the last she saithe as she hath said to the iiij th Interrogatory and that she 

 neuer knewe them interruptid therein vntyll this present strife as she saithe / " 



"William Webb[e of WJroughton in the Countye of Wiltes gent' of 

 [thage] of lij yeres sworne &c. 



" To the first he saithe he knowith the same Lordship of Puryton with the 

 landes and tenementes therto belonging and hathe so knowen the same by all 

 the tyme of his remembraunce / beinge borne and broughte vp within a iij 

 myles of the same / 



"To the second and iij rd he saithe that he hathe seene and herde redde 

 the same Indenture of lease so made of the saide Lordship of Puryton and 

 the parsonage of Puriton withthappurtenaunces by ihabbote and Co vent then 

 being of the late Monastery of Malmesbury vnto the persones namyd in this 



