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It. payd for y e town weaghtes and measures to y e 



Clarke of y e market xij 



1603 It. spent in makinge a Search the nyght the Robbery 



wus done in Caulke .... .... iiij 



Ii. payd to the clarke of the Market for the towne 



weaghtes — .. viij 



1616 Receaved l>y Christopher Ward Constable from John Canttrell 



the Townes Armore 

 2 Corsletts with 2 pickes 

 2 Culivers 



One flaske and tuchboxe 

 v headpeeces ; towe of them ould ones 

 2 howllboardes 

 One payre of Banddelrowes (XVI.) 



2 oulde Girdles 



3 newe girdles : towe of them with y e sowldiers 

 3 payre of hanggers in the Sowldiers keepinge. 

 3 sowrdes with towe daggers 



Allsoe the Sowrdes in Sowldiers keepinge 



Allsoe 2 platte coottes y' Clocksmith not Delivered (XVII.) 



IX. The main part of the English army of old days was raised 

 by means of the parishes, which were considered in all respects as 

 the units of the State. Every parish, according to the Parliament 

 Rolls of Edward 11. , was required to furnish one foot soldier, 

 ready armed and equipped, for sixty days. When the forces re- 

 quired any sudden increase, the additional numbers were usually 

 procured by raising the quota supplied by the parishes ; thus, in 

 1449, proclamation was made "in every parishe " that every thirty 

 men should furnish one horseman, the whole number so raised 

 being computed at 60,000. Every parish was bound to keep 

 ready for use a certain amount of armour, and a man or men, if 

 necessity arose, properly trained to the use of this armour. This 

 armour was not intended for merely local use, still less for show, 

 but for practical service in the field, either at home or abroad, 

 against the national enemies At the conclusion of the inventory 

 of armour in the parish accounts of Fulham, Middlesex, for the year 

 1583, is added in a later hand : "N.B. All sett owte into Flanders, 

 anno 1585, by Rowland Fysher, except one hargobusse," <xx. 



rding to the Statute of Winchester (13 Edw. I., cap. vi.). 



