the answer of
Wm Hunwick
Alan Hunwick
and
Edw Cutler
to the bill of complaint of
Jn Burnham
Jn Prentice
Jn Reynold
and
Wm Reve
the said defendants saith that the said bill of complaint be uncertain and insufficient etc matters therein contained feigned and untrue to the intent only to put the defendants to wrongful vexation costs etc and the said
Jn Cutler
and
Edw Cutler
two of the said defendants say and every of them say that never unto the coming with force and
trespass carrying away of tithe and all other offences comprised in the said bill supposed to be done by them or any of them that they and every of them be thereof and of every part thereof not guilty and the said
Wm Hunwick
Alan Hunwick
and
Jn Lovell
the other defendants say and every of them say that as unto the said carrying with force and arms riot trespass and all other misdemeanours offences supposed in the said bill except the carrying away of the said tithe corn that they and every of them be thereof not guilty and as unto the carrying away of the said tithe corn they the said
Wm Hunwick
Alan Hunwick
and
Jn Lovell
say and every of them saith that after the time of the said letters of sequestration in the said bill rehearsed that is to say
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as before the said time of the taking away the said tithe corn the said bishop by his letters under his seal ready to be showed bearing date the said
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did revoke release and allow his said former letters of sequestration which said letters of revocation were openly declared and published unto the parson of the said church of Colne aforesaid in the presence of three of the said complainants and others in the parish church and churchyard of Colne aforesaid shortly after the date of the said letters of relaxation and revocation and by the space of 10days next before the said
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in the said bill named by virtue whereof and for as much as the said
Wm Hunwick
and
Alan Hunwick
were then and long time before farmers of the said rectory and parsonage whereof the said tithes were supposed to be parcel by a lawful lease thereof made by the said sir
Xoph Grennyng
esq the said
Wm
and
Alan
in their own repeated right and the said
Jn Lovell
as servant unto the said
Wm
and
Alan
and by their commandment at the said time of the taking away of the said tithes did peaceably and quietly take away the said three loads of tithe corn as good and lawful was for them to do without that that any other thing or things material and answerable unto contained in the said bill and in this answer not being there before denied confessed and avoided and traversed is true all which matters the said defendants be ready to prove and aver as this honourable court shall award and pray to be dismissed from the same with their reasonable costs and expenses for the wrongful vexation in this behalf sustained