40 RKPTON CHURCHWARDENS ACCOUNTS. 



expelled the realm. It was afterwards enacted, by Statutes i and 

 2 Philip and Mary, cap. iv., and 5 Elizabeth, cap. xx., that any 

 Gypsy remaining a month in the kingdom would be judged guilty 

 of felony, without benefit of clergy. These statutes were occasion- 

 ally enforced, and several Gypsies actually executed. It is pleasant 

 to find the Repton authorities so merciful as to bribe them to 

 " avoyde y e towne. " 



XV. This, and the similar entry in the following year, refer to 

 the proving and stamping of the town weights and measures by 

 the legal standards kept by the clerk of the market at Derby. The 

 multiplicity of standards, or alleged standards, led to the Statute 

 11 Henry VII., cap. iv., by which the chief towns only were 

 allowed to keep imperial standards. In the schedule to that Act, 

 Derby is named as the one town in Derbyshire " limitted for the 

 saufe custody of weightes and measures accordyng to the kynges 

 estandard." 



XVI. Banddelrowes, or Bandoleers, were small wooden or tin 

 cases, covered with leather, each containing a single charge of 

 powder for the musket or caliver, and fastened to a broad band of 

 leather worn over the shoulder or neck. Hence the band itself 

 came to be called a bandoleer. Their invention is ascribed to the 

 inhabitants of the Pyrenees. 



XVII. There is another inventory of the Town Armour given 

 under the year 161 7, which is almost precisely similar to that of 

 1616, with the addition, "Also the Towne Crowe of Iron," and 

 the list is again repeated in 1620. 



In the parish chest, which is kept in the parvise over the south 

 porch, are many parish documents of a later date, the black-letter 

 Bible purchased in 16 17, which is in fair preservation, the parish 

 map, &c, &c. ; but it also contains a series of deeds or charters 

 extending over an exceptionally wide space of time, and we doubt 

 if there is auy other parish chest in the kingdom possessed of 

 documents of so early a date. There are sixteen pre-Reformation 

 deeds (no doubt part of the " xviij peeces of evidences " men- 

 tioned in 1602), the earliest being of 1 Edward I., and the latest 

 20 Henry VIII. Most of them are in excellent preservation, and 

 they form a very interesting series of the various styles of caligraphy 



