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Christopher Stone is taking action to recover 8 pounds which he says are unjustly detained by John Wrathe and his wife Mary.  Mary is the executrice of William fforde.

Because it specifies that Mary was William fforde's executrice it's likely that the debt was originally incurred by fforde.

However, nothing in the record discloses this debt's origin.  It may be nothing to do with the house and lands.

John Wrathe and Mary didn't come to court.  The rest of the entry concerns the actions to be taken by the sheriff.

In the third postscript:

The missing word is:  decree

The first word in the bracket is:  whereof

I'd incline towards:  Turfett

It could well be Chancello(ur), making allowances for a not particularly well-formed a and c.

In the first postscript the highlighted word in the first line is probably:  p(re)fectus

If the problem word in the probate is the last word of the image's third last line, it is:  Com(m)issaq(ue)

Attempt with some questions:

...Berrynole Close being 42 acres but y^e 3^d Note underwritten [?tt(es)]

^the 2 [?] Notes^

of half an acre & [Sub?itte] be more lessened by half an acre but [yⁿ = then?] 2 roods

come to this ffarme in Place of y^e 2 last menc(i)oned roods at present [?]

Note of the last Mentioned Close there are 3 acres belonging to the

lower Copyhold held by Jack [Popty?] But [yⁿ = then?] Lawrence Ring his te(neme)nt has

3 acres belonging to this ffarme in a Close called Down Shard Close

Note also there is In Berrynole Close another rood of [S(i)r?] Thomas [Malett(es)?]...

The probate is straightforward boilerplate.  The only excitement lies in untangling the many crossings-out and insertions, particularly as they affect the probate date.

The day is the seventh day of July.

The year appears to finish as 1561 (mill(es)imo qui(n)gen(tesimo) lxj).

However it's possible to construe it having been 1554 in one of the prior, crossed-out attempts (mill(es)imo qui(n)gen(tesimo) liiij).

Administration was to the executor named in the testament.

Note that some people might wish to argue that the final iteration of the date ends in lvj rather than lxj, making 1556.