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Pur ton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



Margaret his wife or the now complainauntes were euer interupted or trowbled 

 in the occupation of the same premisses vntyll this present strife as he saithe / 



[Attested] " Eichard Vaughan." 



" William Harm[erJ of . . . uley in the county of Gloucester weuer 

 of thage of lvj yeres sworne, &c. 



" To the first second and iij rd he saithe that he cannot perfytly depose of 

 the [lease] of the saide manor of Puryton made to the saide Eichard Pulley 

 nor of the tyme therof But saithe that xxxiiij yeres past this deponent then 

 being seruant to Thomas Harmer of Stonehowse was with the same Thomas 

 Harmer at the same manor of Puryton wher the saide Eichard Pully then 

 dwelte and ther the same Thomas Harmer boughte certen woll of the same 

 Pulley at the same manor and so contynewyd with him in bargayning of 

 wolle sondry yeres after and sent this deponent then his seruant often tymes 

 for the same wolles . and aboute a v or vj yeres after this deponent fyrst 

 comyng to the same manor for woll as he hathe predeposyd the same Thomas 

 Harmer his master maryed and toke to wife the same Eichard Polleys 

 doughter whiche was the yere folowyng that the highe and mightye prince 

 Charles now Emperor was recyvyd into England as he saithe / [i5S0.J 



" To the iiij th and v th he saithe he cannot depose / 



"To the vj he saithe that to his estimation that the same Isabell now 

 complainaunte is of thage of xxxvj yeres or theraboute And that he saithe he 

 knoith for that she at the mariage of her syster to the same Thomas Harmer 

 as he hath predeposid dyd ryde behinde Eichard Selwyn this deponentes 

 neighbor to the same mariage and was then to his estimation a ix or x yeres 

 of age. 



"To the residew of [thes interrogatories] he saith he cannot depose more 

 then that he [knoith] the same Eichard Pulley and Margaret his wife [did 

 occu] pie and enioye the farme of Puryton during [thei] r lyfe tymes by the 

 space of a xxix yeres to[gether] vntyll they dyed Sythe the wiche tyme the 

 now complainauntes by the space of thes iiij yeres or nere theraboutes haue 

 occupied the same And he neuer knew them interrupted therin vntyll this 

 present strife as he saithe / 



[Attested by marled] 



"Ex. ix° Maij Eichard Gagge cler' chapeleyn to Mr. Charles 



An° iij° E. vj u Herbert in the county of Monmouthe of thage 



of liiij yeres sworne &c. 



" To the first he saithe he hathe knowen the same manor of Puryton with 

 thappurtenaunces by the space of thes xxxvij yeres as he saithe 



" To the second and iij rd he saithe that xxxvij yeres past this deponent was 

 made monke of the late dissoluid howse of Malmesbury and aboute a iij yeres 

 after that this deponent was present in the Chapiter Howse ther with his 

 cobretherne at suche tyme as the same lease mencyoned in this Interrogatory 

 was ther redde and agreed vpon by the prior and the hole convent then ther 

 assemblyd and so then by the same prior was sealyd with the convent seale 

 and afterward by the [same] prior broughte vnto thabbot of the same howse 



