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tharchedeacon of Wiltes then beinge / who dyed as he saithe aboute a xxx. 

 yeres past / And saithe that the possession of the same premisses was 

 delyuered accordingly by oone Sir John Frankelyng then Vicar of Puryton 

 as he herde saye / And more therof he knowith not / 

 " To the viij th he cannot depose / 



" To the last he saithe he hathe knowen the same Eichard Pulley and 

 Margaret his wife and the now complainauntes occupie and enioye the 

 premisses according to the same lease withoute any interruption of any 

 persone vntyll this present strife as he saithe And neuer knewe or herde of 

 the contrary as he saithe / 



[Attested] " per Joh'em Dyer." 



" Eichard Vaughan [alias Ashe]ton clerke late monke of the late dissoluid 

 house of Malmesbury and no we curate of Ohurcheham in the county of 

 Gloucester of thage of liij yeres sworne &c. 



" To the first he saithe he hathe knowen the lordeship of Puryton with the 

 landes therto belongyng by the space of xxxvj yeres and aboue / 



" To the second and iij d . he saithe that xxxiij yeres past this deponent then 

 beinge ij yeres monke professid after his yere of probation was present in the 

 Chapiter House of the late Monastry of Malmesbury at suche tyme as the 

 lease mencyoned in this interrogatory was tber agreed vpon by the hole covent 

 ther present to be made to the saide Eichard Pulley Margaret his wife Ambrose 

 Edmonde and Isabell theyr childerne for terme of theyr lyves and the longes 

 lyver of them . for the yerely rent of xxiij 1 '. to his now remembrance / 



" To the iiij th he saithe that before the dissolution of the same late monastry 

 of Malmesbury the same Eichard Pulley was possessid and occupied the same 

 premisses by all his lyfe tyme after the grante therof wiche was by the space 

 of xj yeres And after his decease Margaret his wife occupied the same by the 

 space of xvj yeres vntyll she dyed / 



" To the v th he saith he knowith perfytly well that the same Eichard 

 Pulley Margaret his wife Ambrose and Edmonde theyr childerne be dede and 

 the same Isabell now complainaunte is survivor and occupieth the same. 



"To the vj he saithe [that by his] estimation the same Isabell is now of 

 thage of [a x]xxyj yeres or more / for he saithe that aboute [aj . . . yeres 

 after the grante of the same lease this deponent with other of the monkes of 

 the same house according to the custome of the house was attendante vpon 

 the then abbote of Malmesbury at a courte holden vpon the same manor / 

 And saithe the same Isabell was then v or vj yeres olde in her fathers howse 

 at the same manor To whome the same Abbote had muche countynance and 

 did playe with all / 



" To the vij th he saithe the same lease was the dede of the same abbot and 

 covent and was writen by oone Lawrence who had all the makyng of the leases 

 of the same house and dyed xxx yeres past to his remembrance / And saith 

 the possession therof was delyuerid accordingly by oone Sir John Frankelyng 

 then vicar of Puryton as he herde saye / 



" To the viij he cannot depose / 



" To the last he saith he newer knew or herde that the same Eichard Pulley 



