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Charles, Lord Stourton, 8fc. 



Thursday after the feste of the Epiphanye of oure Lorde last past, 

 at whiche tyme this said deponent was rescued from the said 

 Willyam by oon James Adamps then servaunt to this saide depo- 

 nent ; and then the said Willyam Hartgyll the yonger did hurt 

 the said James upon the arme with his sworde, wherapon Hartgill 

 was bound over to keep the peace, but nevertheless upon the iii rd 

 day of Marche last past, the seide John Hartgill and Willyam, 

 sonnes of the saide Hartgill th elder, did assaulte this deponent 

 with their swerdes and an otter-speare, he beyng then at the 

 ploughe aboute his busyness ; the saide John Hartgill did strike at 

 him with the saide otter-speare as he wold have fledd from theym 

 apon his horsse, but he then escaped from theym with moche 

 daunger. 



" And ferder that about the fest of All Seyntes last was twelve 

 monethis, oon Edward Huntley, Richard Carpynter, and John 

 Goold then servauntes to the seide Hartgyll the elder, did steale a 

 so we of this saide deponentes yn a place called the Holt. John 

 Lambart of Kylmyngton forsaide did see theym take the saide 

 sowe with a mastyff dogge, of whiche mater the said Lambert gave 

 knowlege prively to oon S r Willyam Southey, preste belongyng to 

 the seid Hartgyll, and to oon John Lopham to th'entent that som 

 good ordre myght be taken theryn by the said Hertgyll withoute 

 ferther busynes, wherapon the said Lambert hadd afterward a heffur 

 hurt in the legg, and an oxe likewise hurt yn the legg, and he 

 hymself was afterward hurt and put yn daunger of his lyffe by 

 the said Edward Huntley. 



"And ferder Richard Carpynter saide to the wiffe of this deponent 

 and to one Humfrey Smythe, that * his master Willyam Hartgyll 

 hadd in tubbes, fattes, and standys more brawne then iij the next 

 parishes coude ete at one meale ; ' and the saide Carpynter ynsued 

 and folowed, with a naked knyffe drawen yn his hand, ij boores of 

 this seid deponentes, and more he knoweth not. 



"John Lambert of Kylmyngton was servaunt to William Hartgill 

 when the mare and colte of Thomas Amys was stolen, and at the same 

 tyme Webbe was servaunt to Hartgyll, and after Crase was taken 

 for the stelyng of the mare, Webbe by the space of xiiij daies or 



