| Description | * Indicates deponents who signed their names; other authentications are by initials or a mark.
ff2r-5v, 19r-21r. Fricker v Jeay: tithe lamb, Tisbury. Evidence of:
Thomas Snooke, Tisbury, husbandman, 60; has lived there from birth except for 7 years.
John Scamell*, East Hatch, Tisbury, husbandman, 23; has lived there from birth.
William Trowbridge, East Hatch, husbandman,58; has lived there from birth
ff5v-7v. Tucker v Jennings: Evidence of witnesses of Salisbury St Thomas:
Thomas Child*, felt maker, 37; has lived there for 20 years; was born at Andover, Hants. Is a neighbour of Nicholas Atkins and Bridget his wife who live honestly and soberly.
Silvester Pope*, tailor, 42; has lived there for 7 years; before at Westbury for 7 years; before at Salisbury for 20 years; was born at Sturminster Newton castle, Dors.
ff7v-9v, 15r17v. Grant v Richard Trimmell; defamation. Evidence of witnesses of Erelstoke:
Richard Light, broad weaver, 56; has lived there for 40 years; born at Castle Combe. Jan past in the inn in Erlestoke Richard sought a warrant from two JPs to bring Thomas before Quarter sessions to discharge the parish of a bastard child begotten own Florence Bailley.
John Carpenter*, carpenter, 44; has lived there for 6 years; was born at Berkeley, Som.
ff10r-12r, 21r-23v. John Pavie, curatores ad lites v Ravens; testamentary will of John Pavie deceased [of Stapleford] Evidence of:
Edith Downes, 30, wife of Robert Downes, Fiffield, Hants; has lived there for a year.
Agnes Hilgrove, Whiteparish, widow, 48; has lived there for 20 years; before at Stapleford where she was born. She is the daughter of John and Chrispian Pavie.
ff12r-15r, 17v-19r. William Edwards and wife v Thomas Willier; defamation. Evidence of: William Edwards*, 80, cleric of Stanton Fitzwarren; has served there for 40 years. Lat easter at Highworth market he saw and heard the parties brawling. Thomas called William a ‘cuckoldry Asse & slave’.
John Brind*, Westrop, Highworth, shoemaker, 28; has lived there from birth.
Giles Flemen [Fleming]* , Stanton Fiotzwarren, husbandman, 27; has lived there for 3 years; before at Salisbury; was born at Camarden.
f24, 33r-34v. [Bartholemew] Parsons [vicar] v John Voise; ?tithe apples and cherries, Collingbourne Kingston. Evidence of:
Joan Ansell, 24, wife of Richard Ansell, Collingbourne Kingston, blacksmith; has lived there 3 years; before at Ludgershall where she was born.
Agnes Carter, 30, wife of Robert Carter, Collingbourne Kingston, husbandman; has lived there for 6 years; was born at Bishopstone.
ff25r-30r, 31v-32v. Silvester Belcher v Thomas Pynnell; testamentary. Evidence of:
Richard Batten Salisbury, joiner, 76; has lived there for 60 years; was born at Ditchampton.
He knows the great board in the hall and great cupboard given by William Smith in his will to Sylvester Belcher did not belong to William but to Richard Pynnell of Netherhampton, because Richard made the table board as he was an apprentice to a joiner and he turned the legs in Richard Batten’s ?workshop [laier], and bought the cupboard from John Pynell. Richard Pynell enjoyed them in his house in Netherhampton many years before Smith came there. Alice Smith was the widow of Richard Pynell but not his executrix. She later married William Smith. She is the mother of Thomas Pynell.
Henry Pope, Wylye, husbandman, 62; has lived there for 3 years; before at Teffont for 3 years; before at Netherhampton for 40 years; was born at Orcheston. He was servant and dwelt with Richard Pynell in Netherhampton.
Joan Horner, 57, wife of John Horne, Stafford in South Newton; has lived there for 8 years; before at Salisbury for 30 years; was burnt Shaftesbury, Dors.she was servant to Richard Pynell for a year and a half. Richard died about 20 years ago.
Alice Rendall, 40, wife of John Rendall, Netherhampton, yeoman; has lived there for 5 years; was born at Salisbury.Last May Thomas Pynell and his wife Prudence came to her house in Netherhampton with Ann Percivall and her daughter Sylvester and claimed a cradle which Alice had borrowed of Alice Smith deceased and Sylvester claimed a bearing cloth and bearing sheet that her grandfather William Smith deceased gave her. Thomas Pynnell replied that they goods were given to him by Thomas Belcher.
ff30r-31v. Ann Serchwell v John Curtis; defamation. Evidence of witnesses of salisbury St Thomas:
John Gibbs, cooper, 16; has lived there from birth. Heard John call Ann a ‘filter whoare’ in Brown Street.
Tabitha Williams, 30, wife of Thomas Wiiliams, weaver; has lived there for a quarter of year; before in Salisbury St Martin for 9 years.
ff35r-37r-38r-40r. Office through Robert Brid v Blake; seat in Potterne church. Evidence of witnesses of Potterne:
Joan Haskins, 33, wife of Anthony Haskins, husbandman; has lived there from birth. The seat in controversy belonged to the owners of Cadley.
Agnes White, 57, spinster; has lived there from birth.
John Harvest, yeoman, 40; has lived there for 2 years.
Thomas Lye*, husbandman, 40; has lived there for 30 years; was born at Urchfont.
f37, 67r-70r. Thomas Haies v Phillip Warne; tithe Alderton. Evidence of:
Francis White*, Langley in Kington St Michael, gent, 40; has lived there for 4 years.
George Bullock*, Alderton, gent, 37; has lived there for 6 years
ff40v-43r. 15 Jul 1618. Thomas Hutchens v Jeffery Barnes; ?defamation. Evidence of:
William Clark*, Brinkworth, yeoman.50; has lived there from birth.
ff43r-55v. Street v Elizabeth Hill; administration of the goods of Nicholas Streete and John Streete decd. Evidence of:
Nicholas Busker*, Martin, yeoman, 59; has lived there for 27 years; born at Burgate in Fordingbridge, Hants; has known Street for 20 years and Hill for 6.
Robert Horsey*, Tidpit in Martin, gent, 44; has lived there for 14 years; born at Damerham.
Edmund Serene, Martin, husbandman, 66; has lived there from childhood.
William Weekes, Tidpit, yeoman, 40; has lived there infancy.
ff55v-57v, 63r-65r. 21 Sep 1618. Robert Waters v Joan Walkes; pew dispute Stapleford. Evidence of:
Edith Come alias Richardes, Codford St Peter, 70, widow; has lived there from last Pentecost; before for 27 years in Ireland; before 14 years in Stapleford; was born at Sherrington. She was the wife of George Combes alias Richards and lived at Uphampton, in the house now lived in by Waters. See D1/42/33.
ff57v-63r. 29 Jul 1618. William Selman & Showell v Humphrey Oliff; rates tpwrds the repairs to Christian Malford church. Evidence of:
John Rilie, Avon, in Christian Malford, husbandman, 40; has lived there from infancy. There was a chapel at Avon which he remembers it being pulled down. A couple lived in it and the husband having gone away with another woman, his wife was laid down outside the chapel wall under four bouches, it being summer, and dying, was buried at Christian Malford. The chapel was taken down, and with the roof a little house was built a small distance away. John gals lives there now.
ff65r-75r, 85r-89v. Thomas Thynn v William Baily, of Bradford; tithes of St Ewens. Evidence of:
John Meade*, 40, household servant of of the plaintiff Mr Thynn.
Edward Wood, South Wraxall, husbandman, 58; has lived there these 20 years and was born there.
Edward Harris, South Wraxall, husbandman, 58; has lived there for 20 years; before at Malmesbury. Thyn is the owner of the late chapel of St Ewens.
Robert manning, Biddeston St Nicholas, yeoman, 35’ has lived there for 10 years; was born ar Ashcott, Som.
ff75r-78r. 2 Jun 1618. Unspecified case. Evidence of:
Thomas Lowe*, Salisbury, gent, 21; has lived there for 2 years; before at Wells in Somerset; was born at Cheddar.
Anthony Long*, Salisbury, gent, 43; has lived there for 25 years.
ff78r-85r. 25 Sept 1681. Elizabeth Evans v Edith Taylor and John Perry; seat in Hindon church. Evidence of:
Edith Bedborow, Hindon, widow, 88; has lived there for 40 years; before at Stapleford where she was born.
Matilda Trowbridge, 54, wife of Edward Trowbridge, Hinton, victualler; had lived there form infancy.
ff89v-92v. 2 Non 1618. William Pavie v Mr Ravens; testamentary re wills of John and Christian Pavie. Evidence of:
John Burgis, Stapleford, husbandman, 62; has lived there from infancy.
ff92r-95r. James Spackman v Boulter: defamation. Evidence of:
Ellen Spackman, tambourine, Berks, 23, wife of Anthony Spackman, weaver
Winifred Carter, 18, Costor farm, Wroughton, spr; ref to Midsummer day feast day at Wroughton
ff95-99r 28 Jul 1618. Bond v Mr [Robert] Rock alias Stapleton [vicar]: tithe, Bowden Park, Lacock.
Evidence of: Philip Smith*, Notton, Lacock, yeo, 60; has lived there for 4 years.
ff99r-104r, 115v-122r. 28 Jul, 6 Dec 1618. Cantloe v Deborah Bisse: matrimonial. Evidence of:
John Long*, Shaftesbury, Dors, yeo, 48; has lived there for 20 years.
Charles Combes*, West Orchard, Dors, husbandman, 52, has lived there fro 30 years;
John Nicholls, West Orchard, yeo, 27; has lived there from birth.
Walter Collins, West Orchard, husbandman, 58; has lived there from birth, part from 20 years in Tisbury.
ff104r-105r, 106r-108v, 111v-113r. Ann Moxam v Mary Crooke: defamation. Evidence of:
Anthony Atwood, Atworth, blacksmith, 31; has lived there from birth. Mary called Ann a ‘bobtayle whore’.
Christian Millard, South Wraxall, spinster, 22; has lived there from birth.
ff105v-106v, 108v-111r, 114r-115v. Caleb Bevan v John Brown; defamation. Evidence of:
Ann Read, Bradford on Avon, spinster, 21; has lived there from birth. Caleb Bevan was a deacon who wore the habit of a minister.
Nicholas Merritt*, Bradford on Avon, weaver, 32; has lived there for one year; before at Whaddon and before then at Melksham.
f113 Read v Marck; defamation case related to previous case. Evidence of
Nicholas Merritt*, Bradford on Avon, weaver, 32; has lived there for one year; before at Whaddon and before then at Melksham.
ff122v-127v Stokes v Osmund Bushnell: testamentary; will of the plaintiff’s father. Evidence of:
John Sadler*, Pickwick, Corsham, gent, 50; has lives there for 3 years.
William Moxham sen Corsham, husbandman, 72; has lived there from birth.
ff128r-131v 14 Jan 1619. Joan Dance v Catherine Pearce; defamation. Evidence Of:
Joan Younge, 36, wife of Thomas Younge, Marlborough, day labourer; has lived there for 18 years. Heard Catherine say to Joan ‘thou art a whore and wast occupied against a hogshead’.
Thomas Pearce, Marlborough, tinker, 23; has lived there from birth.
132r-135v Elizabeth Cowslade v Nicholas Adee; defamation. Evidence of:
George Edwardes*, Moredon farm, Rodbourne Cheney, tailor, 23; has lived there for 4 years; before 3 years in London; before that at Wroughton, where he was born.
ff135v-139r, 142r-148v. Elizabeth Cowslade v Robert Osborne: defamation case related to previous case. Evidence of:
George Edwardes*, as in prev case.
Robert Wilkes, Rodbourne Cheney, husbandman, 50; has lived there for 30 years; before at Wroughton where he was born.
Thomas Bargeatt* Haydon Wick, Rodbourne Cheney, husbandman, 54; has lived there from birth, except of 10 years.
ff139r-142r, 152v-157v Elizabeth Cowslade v Alice Adee: defamation case related to previous case. Evidence of:
Giles Edwardes, 19, Haydon, Rodbourne Cheney, husbandman; has lived there for 4 years; previously at Wroughton; ref to Sunday, St Margaret’s eve.
Richard Harman, Rodbourne Cheney, shepherd, 21; has lived there for one year; before at Stratton, Gloucs, where he was born.
John Saivier, Rodbourne Cheney, husbandman, 26,; has lived there for 6 years; before at Swindon where he was born.
ff49r-151v 17 Feb 1619. Agnes Erle v Edward Beinten; defamation. Evidence of:
Edward Blackmore*, Collingbourne Kingston, chapman, 50; has lived there from birth, except for 10 years.
Henry Monday*, Collingbourne Kingston, shepherd, 26; has lived there from birth.
ff158v-160r 23 Feb 1619. Thomas Pyle v Mayoll; tithes, Berwick St John. Evidence of:
Richard Pyle, Upper Wallop, Hants, yeoman, 30; has lived there from birth. Ref to Robert Pinckney, rector of Berwick St J.
ff160r-163r, 166v-169v Provender v Rogers: tithe due on Provender’s alias Cophed Waste, Calne.
Evidence of:
William Mortimer*, vicar of Calne, 50; has lived there for 16 years; born West Kennet. Ref to Mr Nicholson and claim that the land was ‘assart’ land.
Thomas Clark alias Wickwar, Calne, baker, 55; has lived there from birth.
Richard Fowler*, Calne, yeoman, 64; has lived there from birth.
ff163v-166v, 170-173 Alice Compline v Joan Daunce; defamation. Evidence of:
Phiillip Smith, Marlborough St Mary, husbandman, 30; has lived there for 6 years; before at Marlborough St Peter.
Margaret Patchett, 20, wife of William Patchett, Marlborough St Mary, shoemaker; has lived there for 12 years.
Joan Merriman, Marlborough, widow, 63; has lived there from birth, except for one year.
Mabel Barker, 40, wife of Christopher Barker, Marlborough, shoemaker; has lived there from birth.
ff173r-175r 17 Mar 1619 Ann Moxam v Mary Crooke; brawling. Evidence of: Christian Stockwell, Wingfield, spinster, 28; has lived there since last Michaelmas; before at South Wraxall for 4 years; born and raised at Box.
Agnes Iles, 40, wife of John Iles, South Wraxall, clothier; has lived there for 15 years. Ref to St James day.
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