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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 164. 



3. Bind a witch with her armes close pinioned, 

 and her le<rges vv'h her cloths together, and 

 throw her in water : and she will not sink, 

 as was attested vpon seuerall woomen at 

 Wore. Assizes, 1660." 



" One Joan Bibb, of Rushock, In Worcshr, was 

 tyed, and throwen into a poole, as a witch, to see 

 whether she could swimm. And she did bring her 

 actn agst Mr. Shaw, the parson, and recouered 

 10'" damadges. 8° Marc. 1660. 



" Mem*- I compounded for (her) and others w'h 

 Mr. Shaw, and gaue them 20'*' for costes and da- 

 madges by way of referense (query, recompense ?) 

 or both pFs to me: and both plys contented." 

 (MS. to face p. 363.) 



" 8° Jan. 1660, Wore. Vpon peticii of the Grand 

 Jury, y* was consented to by the Court, and so 

 ordered : That ther shalbe no order of Court at 

 Sessions, or act of Sessions, by Justices, for 

 churchw. and ouerseers of poore to finde house 

 or house-roome for any lusty yong married people, 

 but to finde houses for themselves at ther will. 

 And at Assizes, 8° Marc. 1660, upon the like 

 peticii Sr. Rob. Hyde one of the Judgs s% that yf 

 yong men marry together befor they haue howsis, 

 ther is no laAV to enforc. chw. and O. by the Jus- 

 tices to find howses, but yf they canot get any, 

 let them lye vnder an oke." (MS. leaf to face 

 p. 220.) 



" Mem''" I being a Justice of Peace in the yeare 

 1638, did cause Trinity Sessions (then so called) 

 to be kept according to 2 H. V. 4., on the Tuesday 

 after y^ week of Translacon of St. Thomas, not as 

 vsually, Tuesday after Trinity Sunday." (MS. 

 leaf to face p. 289.) 



" Mem*** After the happy restauracn of Charles 

 the Second to the Crown, 1660, I was restored, 

 and agayn did alter Christmas Sessions, w'^li was 

 vsually kept the Tuesday after Twelfth-day : yf 

 the same fall on a Munday, to y" Tuesday senight 

 after, 1661, being 14° Jan." (MS. leaf to face 

 p. 289.) 



" And soe, 1662, it will happen to the Sumer 

 Sessions to begin 15° July, and Michaems Sessions 

 to begin 7° Oct. ag't the vsuai practise." (MS. 

 leaf to face p. 289.) 



" Mem*- 8° Jan. 1660, at Christms Sessions at 

 Wore. Consented to, and ordered vpon the pre- 

 sentmt of the Grand Jury, that the multitude of 

 cott. erected y" the tyme of the late warr, to be a 

 great grievance. That all cottages, erected since 

 the beginng of the late warres, contrary to laws, 

 to be pluckt down, either vpon the decease, or re- 

 mouall of the dwellers. And yf now persons be 

 placed therein, being not old or impotent, to be 

 endited, and punished according to 31 Eliz. 7." 

 <MS. leaf to face p. 65.) 



" Ordered, 1 1° Jan. 6° Car. By the peticii of the 

 Grand Jury, that ther be no making of mault 

 w*hin this Countie from this day vntl the next 

 Generall Sessions, vnless it be for prouision of 

 their own priuat howses, or in cases of necessity, yf 

 any such happh as shalbe allowed by 3 Justices of 

 y^ Limitt, and for such quantitis as they shall 

 think fitt." (MS. leaf to face p. 185.) 



"Mem*- 3° July 1662. By letters from the 

 Lords of Counsell, and seconded by an attest of 

 19 psons from BristoU, y' was comanded that all 

 tobacco planted w'hin the Countie of Wore, should 

 be speedily destroyd by order of the Sheriff and 

 Justices of Peace, to whom y' s* letters were di- 

 rected." (MS. leaf to face p. 330.) 



" Att Lent Assizes, Mr. Baron Atkins in his 

 charge dyd recommend to y" Justices of the Peace 

 of y' Countie, strict watch of y" Scotc pedlars, in 

 regard they were employd to carry letters of cor- 

 respondense betwixt y" factious party of our nation 

 to y^ discontented party of Scotland : Anno 168f ." 

 (MS. to face p. 279.) 



" Mem*' At the Q''ter Sessions kept at Droit- 

 wich 30° Sept, 1651, before Sr. Sam' Wyld, then 

 Chief Baron, by reason of the late plundering of 

 Wore, by the King's rout, and parlt army plunder- 

 ing, the Grand Inquest did consent y* the sum of 

 SOO"* be raysed out of the Countie, for the finding 

 poore people of the Citty materialls to sett them 

 on work to relieve themselves." (MS. leaf to face 

 p.l.) 



" One Jo. Taylor of Elmbridg. was fined, and 

 had judgmt at Wore. Assizes, 22° Aug. 1661, to 

 pay 20"" and two months' imprisonmt w*ht bayle, 

 then bayld by two Justices to appeare at Sumer 

 Assizes, then and ther solemnly to acknowledg his 

 faulte, in speaking such scandalous wordes, as 

 That y* kingdome is governed by Papistes and 

 popish lawes : Mr. Georg Symonds and myselfe 

 bailed him, and bound him also to his behavior." 

 (MS. leaf to face p. 341.) 



"Parsons and Curats shall teach that y^ pri^honrs 

 may, w'h a safe and quiet conscience, aftr ther 

 coiiion prayers on holidays, in tyme of harvest, 

 labour and save those things w'^h God hath sent. 

 Injunctn of Edw. VI. 1547 : 2 Eliz. 1549, reprnt 

 1661." (MS. leaf to face p. 304.) 



"Articles in y^Bpps uisitacin of Wore. 1662, by 

 Bpp Gaudin: 



1. Do y= churchwdns and sidesmen diligently 



take notic of their names, who w*hout a suf- 

 ficient cause were absent on the Lordes-day, 

 and othr holydayes ? (MS. leaf to face 

 p. 305.) _ 



2. Do y" churchwdns and sidesmen, by warrant 



from the Justices, levy 12* for psons absent 



