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Purton. A Case , in the Star Chamber. 



Richard and the last abbott of Malmesbury famylyar fryndes after the said 

 Rychard Polley's deth wherby she myght haue what lessys and copies she wold./ 



" 10 Item whether dyd the said Margarett require yow to lent some 

 money to the said abbott and what some was hytt / And what promesse made 

 she for to recompence the same /. 



"11 Item were yow present or dyd yow euer here of any lyuery and seisen 

 made by the same Frankleyn to Polley within the compasse of xxxiiij th yeres 

 past. And how long is it sence Franklayn (sic) occupied the farme first xl or 

 xxxix yere agoo./ 



Star Chamber Proceedings, Edward VI. 

 Bundle 8, No. 41. 



" Ex vj° Maij Super Interrogators ex parte magistri Bridges ultimo 

 An° iij° E. vj. loco datis. 



[6th May, 1549.] 



" John Hayes clerc' parsone of the parishe churche of Lydyard in the 

 county of Wiltes, of thage of lxiij yeres. 



" To the first he saithe he knew the same John Frankelyn Clerc' xxxix 

 yeres ago he beinge then vicar of Puryton. 



" To the seconde he saithe he dwelte with the same John Frankelyn xxxix 

 yeres past and was then parish prest of the churche of Lydyerde to the same 

 Frankelyn the parsone therof / and so contyneuyd with him vntyll his dethe 

 by the space of a vj yeres as he saithe / 



" To the iij d he saithe he was so dwellyng with the saide Frankelyn at the 

 tyme of his dethe who laye ther sycke by the space of viij or ix dayes before 

 he dyed as he saithe / 



" To the iiij th he saithe the same Frankelyn dyed aboute Bartylmew tyde to 

 his now remembrance being xxxiij yeres ago at Bartylmew tyde last past 

 [24th Aug., 1548] and that he saithe he knowithe for that this deponent the 

 v th daye of December nexte after was instituted parsone of Lydyard by the 

 then bysshop of Sarum then being voyde by the deth of the said Frankelyn. 

 The date of whiche Institucion at this his examination shewyed is quinto 

 Decembris An 0 Domini Millesimo quingentesimo quinto decimo. 



"To the v th vj th and vij th he saithe he knewe the same Richard Pulley 

 fermour of Puryton about a xl. yeres past and was so fermour there before tins 

 deponent came to [be] parishe prest at Lydyard to the same parsone Frankelyn 

 wiche is xxxix yeres past as he hathe predeposid / And saithe that there 

 was no frendship or amytie betwene the saide Pulley and the same parsone 

 Frankelyn at the tyme of the dethe of the saide Frankelyn nor oone yere 

 before the same / for he saithe the same Pulley then fermour of Puryton 

 went aboute by all meanes he coulde to inclose a certen grounde callyd Puryton 

 Hill whiche was and is comon euery thirde yere to the Inhabitantes of 

 Puryton / wherin he was resisted by the same Inhabitantes which rose in 

 greate nomber against him therin and complayned to the same parsone 

 Frankelyn therof who toke parte with the same his parishners therin and 

 ther[u]pon arose greate variaunce and grudge betwene the same Frankelyn 



