Star Chamber (PRO STAC2 7/124 Hunwick and Cutler v Burnham Prentice Reynold and Reve)

4Edw6 (Tuesday 28 January 1550)

document 18800082

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 12.7.4Edw6 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 12.7.4Edw6 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 4.8.= 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