MRP: C10/12/128 f. 2
C10/12/128 f. 2
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//1658//
//The joynt and severall Answeares of Tobell Aylmer and Thomas Sparkes two of the defd:ts to the Bill//
//of Comp:lt of Anne Valentine Comp:lt//
//The said Deff:ts saving and referring unto themeselves both now and att all tymes hereafter all advantages and//
//benefitt of excepcon to the incertainty and insufficiency of the said Comp:lts Bill for a full & pfect Answeare thereunto//
//or unto soe much as anyway concerneth these def:ts to make Answeare unto they say And first the said Tobell//
//Aylmer for himselfe saieth That he did for sometyme in the mynority of Thomas Vallentine the Comp:lts husband//
//receave the Rentt of the howses in the Bill menconned for the use of him the said Vallentine and his mother//
//being then of theire yearely vallue of ffifteene pounds and tenn shillings or neerethereabouts and the ?w:ch def:ts did//
//from tyme to tyme pay unto him the sayd Vallentine and his said Mother by the direccon all the Rents soe by him//
//this def:t receaved And this Def:t saieth that within short tyme after his the said Thomas Vallentine//
//coming to age he this Def:t and the said Valentine accompted togeather and upon that accompt the said Valentine//
//was indebted to him this Def:t in the some of 350:li or neerethereabouts and that he the said Valentine pmmised to//
//make over unto this Def:t the howses in this Bill menconned but he faileing to doe it this Def:t caused him to be//
//arrested for the money due to this Def:t as aforesaid and upon Tryall had before the Lord Cheif Justice Rolle//
//haveing Judgment thereupon this Def:t caused the said Valentine to be comitted in Execucon to the to the Custody//
//of S:r John Lenthall mshall of the Prison then called the Kings Bench with whome the said Valentine//
//remayned a prisoner for some tyme till the mshall suffered him to make an escape And this Def:t denyeth//
//that he received any Rents or proffitts of the said howses or any of them during the tyme of his the//
//said Valentines imprisonment nor att any other tyme since he the said Valentine came to full age XXX XXX//
//did he the said Valentine in this life nor any other pson convey and assure unto and in the name of him this Def:t//
//any estate in the said howses or any of them And this Def:t denyeth all combinacon and confederacy with the other//
//Def:ts in the Bill named to share and divide the Rents & Proffitts of the p:rmisses And this Defd:t denyeth that he hath//
//in his Custody any of the Deedes Evidences or writings concerning the p:rmisses or the p:lts title thereunto And this//
//Def:t Thomas Sparkes for himselfe saieth That he is ?Tennte to one of the Tenem:ts in Black Raven Alley &//
//payeth yearely 3:li 10:s and hath Eleaven yeares to come in his Lease made by Tymothy Hollingshead & his//
//wife and that this Def:t hath paid all his Rent unto the said Thomas Valentine in his life tyme untill Mchmas//
//last soe that this Def:t now oweth one quarters Rent due at X:pmas last w:ch this Def:t is ready to pay to//
//such as have right thereunto deducting taxes out of the same And this Def:t denyeth that he hath any of the//
//deedes Evidences or writings concerning the p:rmisses or the p:lts title thereunto And this Defd:t denyeth all//
//combinacon and confederacon with the other Defd:ts in y:e bill named to share and divide y:e Rents & proffitts of y:e p:rmisses//
//amongst themselves And these Defd:ts severall deny that they have done or comitted any wast or spoilye upon the//
//P:rmisses nor have pulled downe or sould any of the Tymber belonging to the p:rmisses ?W:thout that any other//
//matter or thing in the said Bill of Comp:lt conteyned materiall or effectuall in the Lawe for these defs:ts to make answeare//
//unto & not herein or hereby well & sufficiently answeared unto confessed or avoided ?traversed or denyed are true All//
//w:ch matters & things theis Defd:ts & either of them is ready to averre & prove as this hono:ble Court shall award XXX//
//and humbly prayeth to be from hence dismissed w:th their reasonable Costs and Charges in this behalfe XXX//
//most wrongfully susteyned//
//Hen Proctor//
