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Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



gyrrell in the house with her father of thage of a ij yeres to her iudgment or 

 nere theraboute And this deponent saithe the same Isabell is now of thage 

 of xxxvj yeres to her perfyt knowledge and remembraunce as she saithe 

 " To the vij viij and ix she cannot depose / " 



[Attested by mark.'] 



" Ex. xxvjto John Dyer [of Tetbury] in the county of Gloucester 



Aprilis gent' of thage of . . . sworne &c. 



" To the first he saithe he hathe knowen perfytly well the same lordeship 

 of Puryton and the parsonage of Puryton by the space of a xxx . . . yeres 

 now past. And was scolemaster in the monastry of Malmesbury aboute a 

 xxxvj yeres past or some what more / 



" To the second and iij d he saithe that he hathe seene and redde the same 

 Indenture specifyed in this Interrogatory so made to the saide Richard Pulley 

 Margaret his wife Ambrose Edmond and Isabell theyr childerne for terme of 

 theyr lyves and the longes lyver of them. And saithe the same lease was 

 made xxxiij yeres past and in the fyrst yere of Richard Cainme then Abbote 

 of Malmesbury this deponent then beinge scolemaster in the same monastry. 

 And saithe ther was to his now remembrance reseruyd vpon the same lease 

 the yerely rent of xxiij 1 ' / And saithe that the same Indenture beyng sealyd 

 with the covent seale and in thandes of the then prior of the same monastry 

 this deponent dyd rede the same before the same prior and the then abbot 

 and the same Richard Pulley and conferryd the same with the counterpane 

 therof. And after collation therof made the same abbot sette his seale and 

 delyueryd the same to the said Richard Pulley as the dede of the saide abbot 

 and convent / 



" To the iiij th he saithe he hathe knowen the same Richard Pulley in his 

 lyfe tyme and after his decease Margarete his wife duringe her lyfe tyme and 

 nowe the same Isabell complainaunte successyvely to haue occupied the same 

 manor of Puryton with the parsonage of Puryton by vertue of the same lease 

 so to them made / 



"To the v th he saithe he knoith that the same Richard Pulley Margaret 

 his wife Ambrose and Edmond theyr childerne be all dede / and that the 

 same Isabell now complainaunte ys survivor and hathe occupied and enioyed 

 the same premisses by vertue of the same lease by the space of these iiij yeres 

 or nere theraboute/ 



"To the vjth he saithe [he knoith . . . ] that the same Isabell is of 

 thage of xxxvj [yeres and] that she was borne in the same yere that the 

 [Scotyshe] Kinge was slayne in the Scotyshe felde And saithe of his owne 

 knoledge that within a yere [after] the same lease so made to the same 

 Richard Pulley and the aforenamyd persones this deponent was attendant 

 vpon the then abbot of Malmesbury at the keping of a courte vpon the same 

 manor of Puryton / At what tyme he saithe that the same Isabell was then 

 a lytell gyrle of a iiij yeres of age playinge in the howse ther with whome the 

 then abbot of Malmesbury wolde iest with all and call yt wife / as he saithe / 



" To the vij bh he saithe that the same dede of Indenture so made as he 

 hathe predeposyd was the very trew dede of the same late abbote and convent 

 of Malmesbury and was wryten by oone Robert Lawrence Register to 



