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^^1 bounded to grind at complainant's millnes ; perceiving
CHESTER, that the same (if they should be bounde thereunto)
29. will be much to their
Buying
damage." Some of the interro-
Ground Malt,
gatories put to the defendants by Gregg indicate the
Had. MSS.,
^^' manner in which these Star-Chamber inquisitions extracted
evidence or confession from accused persons :—
Whether did you and any other of the defendants since the setting
2083. I. down of the said order to grind at Dee Mills meet together and
resolve that you and they or any of you and whom would not obey
the said order : and that you would lay your purses together to overthrow
the same or lie in prison before you or they would obey the
same ? How many meetings have been between you, and at what
place or places did you or they or any other of the defendants so
meet or confer together ? Declare y® truthe !
What sum or sums of money have been gathered or given by you
or any of the defendants : and which of you or any other person and
who by name : for the overthrowing of or concerning the said order ?
How hath the said monies been : employed by whom and by
whose motion was the said conclusion or : attempt and what sum or
sums of money have you paid or promised or agreed to pay, and to
whom, in prosecution of any course for the opposition of the said
several orders of this Court or either of them ?
To whom did you complain that the said order was a hard and
strict order? Would you have withstood the said order if you had
not been encouraged by others : and which of the defendants or
what other person gave you such encouragement ? Declare their
names, and wrong not your conscience in concealing them, nor in
covering or denying any truth which this suitor requires you to
discover !
Dennison stated that he accidentally met Dicken-
son, one of the other defendants, and did consent to
give twenty shillings to John Edwards, of Boughton,
gent, (of Boughton Mill). Dickenson had informed
him that he and some others of the defendants would
do the like, towards bearing Edwards' charges to
London to solicit help, that they might be at liberty
to grind where they pleased and were best used. He
had bought great quantities of malt from Edwards and
his wife and from others, because he thought himself
better used by them than by the millers of the Dee ;
'' and dothe intend hereafter soe to doe if hee finde
himselfe wel dealt withall therein as yet hee hath