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That in all and every of the years specified in the first article aforesaid the said Mr Walters was in peaceable and quietly possession of the acreage articulate and of all the tithes thereunoto belonging which he knoweth by reason he this deponent have paid his tithes unto the said Mr Walters; and have [illegible] others paid the like (except before excepted) who did receive and peaceably and quietly [illegible] them, but concerning hops he this deponent hath not known any growing in the said parish of Terrington until this 8 or 9 years last past, and that by all the time there have been hops increasing renewing or growing in Terrington aforesaid the said Mr Walters having had and received the tithe of the said hops... but he saith that he have not known nor heard said that ever any tithe of hops renewing… had been paid unto the parson… of Terrington aforesaid or his farmer.
That the articulate Mr Walters… in all the years specified within the first arlate of the matter whereupon he is now paid had and received all the tithes renewing in the said parish (except before excepted) and especially offering tithe gosse… woollen hemp and tithe hops… and also has heard the said Mr Walters confess that he received the tithe hops or composition for them peaceably and quietly without any contradictions of any man until now of late time that one Purgall made claim to the hops… His hops were and are planted on a piece of ground which was grass ground and sometimes fed and other times mowed of this deponent’s sight and knowledge, but whether it were arable or no he cannot answer… That there be two parishes in Terrington viz Terrington St John and Terrington St Clements, and two churches, and the hops which he had lawfully planted were and are growing in the parish of Terrington St Clement which he knoweth having seen them.