Star Chamber (PRO STAC8/289/30 Eliz and Francis Veer v Rich Harlakenden)

29.11.4Jas1 (Saturday 29 November 1606)

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to the twentieth says that the wife of Edes with some of her small children remained after he Diglett came into possession of the mill by means of mr Waldgrave and says that mr Waldgrave mr Tiffin and the rest did go then to dinner at the house of mr Harlakenden as mentioned and so soon as they had gone he Diglett went out to shut down the floodgates belonging to the mill and in the meantime Edes wife had got into the mill and had shut fast the doors thereof and thereupon he Diglett did pull down a board that stood in or against the wall of the mill and there he entered again the mill and that down did lift from the hinges the door betwixt the mill and the millhouse and so entered into the millhouse which door or board he did not carry away nor can further say