the said Hen for answer saith that as to the moiety of the premises specified in the said bill whereof he in the right of one Alice his wife was tenant that one sir Wm Tyler knight and Wm Tykell gentleman by good and sufficient conveyance in the law were seised to them and to the heirs of the said Wm Tykell of and in all the said premises specified in the said bill to the use of the said Jn Compton specified in the said bill and his heirs before the late statute of execution of uses in possession of the land whereupon such uses depended and so seised the said Jn Compton before the said last statute of uses for the sum of 260li bargained and sold all the said premises with appurtenances to one Rich Ratclyff gentleman and his heirs to convey to him an estate and other assurances thereof according by force whereof the said Rich Ratclyff was seised of all the same premises in his demesne as of fee and so seised died thereof seised by and after whose decease the premises descended to one Margt Ratclyff and Alice Ratclyff now wife of the said Hen as coheirs and heirs of the said Rich Ratclyff to wit daughters of Hugh Ratclyff brother of the said Rich Ratclyff by force whereof they entered into the premises and were thereof seised in their demesne as of fee and so seised the said Alice married and took to husband the said Hen Sheldon now defendant by force whereof the said Hen and Alice were seised of the moiety of the premises in their demesne as of fee as in the right of the said Alice and did take the profits thereof and do detain such evidence as they have concerning the same as lawful is for them to do without that the said Robinson feoffed any persons to the use of him or his heirs or to the performance of his last will and testament as in the said bill of complaint is untruly surmised or that after the said Robt Robinson made ordained and declared his last will or testament concerning the premises and by the same willed that his feofees should stand and be seised of the premises to the use or behalf of the said Jn Compton the elder and Agnes his wife for the term of their lives and the longer liver and after their decease to the use of the said complainant and Margt then his wife for the term of their lives and the longer liver of them with or without the said lead or cawdern of brass or other implements specified in the said bill in manner and form as is untruly surmised in the said bill for that after their decease the same shall be to the use of the next heirs of the said Simon and Margt coming as is surmised in the said bill of complaint or that ever there was any such will or conveyance made of the premises as is surmised in the said bill or that the said feoffees were of the said premises seised in their demesne as of fee to any such uses or that the said Compton and Agnes his wife or either of them were sole seised of the said premises in their demesne as of freehold for term of life only by force of the said estate as in the said bill is alleged or otherwise of any such estate only or that the said defendant hath pulled up the said lead or cawdern or hath sold them or the other brewing vessels or implements or the said bedsteads or hath converted the money thereof to their own proper use or behalf in manner and form as in the said bill of complaint is untruly surmised and if they have or had done yet the said complainant hath nothing to do therewithal without that that any other thing material or effectual in the law to be answered to etc ask that this honourable court shall award them costs and pray to be dismissed etc