Jiur xxiii cir dine Jurij A d 1582                                       The Answere of will[ia]m Bradshaw one of the Def[endan]ts

D.1.                                                                 Cupid             D.1.                 to the Bill of Compl[ainan]t of Richard Coke Compl[ainant].

The said Deff[endant] saith that the said bill of Complaynt ys uncorten & insuffissicent in the Law to be answered unto & the matters therein contyned (supposed to concerne this Def[entant]) are sett forth & devysed, merely

of malice & on pr[o]pose to vex this Def[fendant] & to bring him to extraordinary charges & expence of his goods, without any inst cause so to do, as this Def[endant] thinketh Nonthelesse of this Def[endant] shalbe compelled by

thos[e] of this honorable Court to make any Further Answere to the said insufficient byll, Then th[e] advantage of the insufficiency of the same bill unto this Def[entant] att all tymes hereaft[er] said he this Def[endant] for

answere to so much of the said bill as toucheth him self, saieth, that as to all the lands & at ten[an]tes menconed in the said Bill (except three acres & one Rode of arable land in Osmaston aforesaid in the sev[er]all

tenna[nt]es of Regnold Eawson & John Coup named in the said Bill, & one p[ar]cell of land called the Byflatt in the said bill also named) This Def[endant] Doth not clayme any thing therein nor hath not medled

w[i]th th[e]occupacon thereof, no taken the psyttes of the same But doth utterlie Disclayme in the same letinge the Defence thereof to soch as have right & title in & to the same And as to the said

three acres & one Roode of arable land in Osmaston aforesaid The said def[endant] saith that he this Def[entant] is lawfullie seised in his Demeisne as of Fee by course of ch***ans by long Descent from his

Ancestere, of & in one mesuage or Tenem[en]t in Osmaston aforesaid w[i]th Divers landes meadow & pasture to the same belonging whereof the said three acres & o[ne] roode ys & tyme whereof the

memory of man ys at to the contrarye (as this Def[endant] verelie thinketh hath be[e]ne p[ar]cell, & he being so seised of the said mesuage & other the pr[e]misses whereof the said three acres & one rode one p[ar]cell

as is aforesaid holdeth the same premisses of o[ur] sovaigne Lawe the Que[e]ne as of hir graces mano[r] of Melborne in the said Countie of Derbie p[ar]cell of hir saids Duchie, as Affreehoto of the

same mano[r], And paeth to[?] said sovargnie Ladie the pres[en]t being Lord of the said mano[r] for the same one yea[r]ly chief rent of vi s[hillings] vi d, And for a certen grace unto hir manestie by the

Custome of the same mano[r], of Melborne, one ye[a]rly rent of ii s[hillings] called worke silver, as by the Court Rolles, and accomptes of the officers of the said mano[r] of Melborne ytt may appere as this Def[endant] thinketh

By reason whereof the said Def[endant], his tenantes & Fermors Do occupie & enioye the said three acres & one rode of land as he thinketh yet is lawfall for him & them to doe And touching said p[ar]cell

of land called the Byflatt the said def[endant] for answere saieth, that The Baylyves & Burgesses of the Borowe of Derbie as in the right of there corporacon are lawfully seised as this Def[endant] thinketh

of & in p[ar]te of the said p[ar]cell of land called the Byfflatt in there Demeisne as of Fee & they so seised Did Demise the same to this Def[endant] to occupie as tenant att thiere will from yeare to yeare, And of the resid[e]n[t]

of the same one Anthonie Babington esqr, ys (as this def[endant] thinketh lawfully seised of & in the same in his Demeisene as of Fee, or Fee taile, as p[ar]cell of his mano[r] of Litchurch in the said countie to reason

of whose minoritul the gov[e]ment & dispocon of the said p[ar]cell of ground doth belong unto Henrie Fuliambe esqr (as this def[endant] thinketh) who hath mar[r]ied the mother of the said Antony Babington

w[hi]ch said Henrie Fulambe hath denysed the same amongst other things unto this Def[endant] to occupie att his will from yeare to yeare; By reason whereof this Def[endant] entered into the said p[ar]cell of land called

the Byfflatt & doth occupie the same as tenant att will as p[ar]te def[endant] unto the said Baylies & Burgesses of Derbie, & of the residue thereof as tenant att will to the said Henry Foliambe as

lawfull ys for him to Doe as he thinketh without whom he this Def[endant] can not sufficiently answere touching the said Byflatt, nor sett forth the title of the said Bailives & Burgesses & of the said anthony

Babington & Henry Foliambe in & to the same Without that that the three acres and one rode of arable land in Osmaston aforesaid, or the said p[ar]cell of land called the Byflatt, be as this Def[endant]

thinketh concealed deteyned or wrongfully holden from hir ma[jes]tes as in the said bill ys untruly alleaged And without that that the said p[ar]cell of land called the Byflatt ys p[ar]cell of hir

ma[jes]tes mano[r] of Spondon & Chaddesdon p[ar]cell of the said duchie as in the said bill ys also untruly alleaged asthis Def[endant] untruly thinketh And without that that the said Willi[a]m Tasser esqr

by vertue of hir ma[jes]tes Comyssion named in the said bill, (to this Def[endan]ts knowledge) had or caryeth any authoritie to convey the said three acres and one rode of arable land in Osmaston aforesaid

his as p[ar]cell of land called the Byflatt to any p[er]son or p[er]sons by copie of Court rolle, or otherwise as in the said bill is also alleged / And w[i]thout that that the said Compl[ainant] was

and lawfully seised of the said three acres & one roode of arable land, or of the said p[ar]cell of land called the Byfflatt, & his deimeisne as off Fea according to the sev[err]all customes of the

said sev[er]all mano[r]s of Melborne & Spondon & Chad[e]sdon, For the said Def[endant] thinketh that the same lands were and heretofore devisible by copy of Court Rolle, & therefore as he thinketh cannot undo

be demised by copie/And without that that the said Compl[ainant] did take lawfully to his owne use the issues & profyttes of the same premises (as this Def[endant] thinketh) as in the said bill

ys also alleged /And w[i]thout that that any Copies escriptes minites Court rolles or other writinges concurning the premises & belonging to the said Compl[ainant], and come to the handes & possesscon of this

Def[endan]t, or that by unto yof this Def[endant] hath with violence & without title entered into the premises & inherited & expelled the said Compl[ainant] as in the said bill of Compl[aint], is also now untruly alleged

And without that that any other matter or thing, in the said bill menceoned & alleaged (& w[hi]ch toucheth this Def[entant]) materiall the to be answered into and not have sufficiently answered into

confessed & avoided, deimied or transed, ys true/ All w[hi]ch matters this Def[endant] ys readye to were & we as this honorable Court shall award And pr**eth to be Defacyssed and to be answered into & not have insufficiently answered unto

the same w[i]th his reasonable costes & charges in this behalf by him wrongfully susteyned                                                                                                                                           Kay Beaumont

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