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the saide Eichard Pulley and that the same Eichard Pulley dyd begynne 

 by vertue therof to occupie the farme of the same manor this deponent then 

 came from the seruice of Alice Prater wydowe of Mychall / vnto Puryton to 

 his father then ther dwelling and ther contynewyd with his saide father a 

 single man by the space of .x. yeres after and then maryed and hathe byn 

 now a maryed man by the space of xxiiij yeres as he saithe / And saithe that 

 at the nexte courte ther holden after his suche comyng frome the saide 

 wydowes seruice vnto his father as he hath predeposyd he herde ther the same 

 Indenture redde wherin the same Eichard Pulley Margarete his wife 

 Ambrose Edmond and Isabell theyr childerne wer namyd as he saithe / 



" To the iiij th he saith [that by] vertue of the same lease the said Eichard 

 Pulley [for] the space of a xj yeres vntyll he dyed dyd enioye [and] occupie 

 the same / and after his decease the same [Marga]rete his wife by the space 

 of an xvj yeres vntyll she dyed Sythe whose deth wiche is almost iiij yeres 

 the now complainaunte hath occupied the same / 



"To th v th he saith that trew yt is that all the persones namyd in the same 

 lease savinge the same Isabell be all dede / 



" To the vj th he saithe he knowith that the same Isabell is of thage of 

 xxxvj yeres for he saithe that at his suche comyng from the saide wydowes 

 seruice home to Puryton to his father as he hathe predeposid he knewe 

 perfytly well the same Isabell a lytell gyrrell and then beganne to ronne 

 aboute the house beinge of a two yeres of age to his estimation / 



" To the vij he saithe he hath herde saye that the Vicar of Puryton callyd 

 "Willyam Frankelyn dyd delyuer possession of the same premisses to the saide 

 Eichard Pulley / And more he cannot depose / 



"To the viij he saithe he herde saye that the same Sir Edmonde Bridges 

 dothe staye the rent of the saide xix acres frome the complainaunte wiche 

 this deponent knewe allwayes occupied with the farme of Puryton / 



"To the last he neuer herde that the same Eichard Pulley Margaret his 

 wife or the now complainaunt wer euer interrupted in the occupieng of the 

 same premisses vntyll this present stryfe / " 



[Attested by mark.'] 



"Edyth Sayer [wife of] Eobert Sayer of Eadborne in the County of 

 [Wiltes'] of thage of .1. yeres, sworne &c. 



" To the first seconde iij rd . iiij th . and v th . she saithe she cannot depose of 

 any suche Indenture made to the persones namyd in this Interrogatory of 

 the same manor and parsonage of Puriton. And she saithe that aboute a 

 yere and some what more before the deponent was maryed wiche is now 

 xxxiiij yeres a goo this deponent was then seruant in [the] house with the 

 same Eichard Pulley at Eadborne aforesaid at what tyme he had ther in his 

 handes the farme of the same manor of Puryton for that yere vpon lykyng 

 and not by Indenture And how he came by the same after warde by Inden- 

 ture she saith she knowith not nor can depose any more to this Interrogatory/ 



"To the vj th she saithe that at such tyme as she fyrst came to the 

 seruyce of the saide Eichard Pully father to the same Isabell now complain- 

 aunte wiche is xxxiiij yeres ago and aboute a ij yeres before this deponentes 

 saide mariage as she hathe predeposid the same Isabell was then a lytell 



