THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"multoeum manibus geande letattjb onus." — Ovid, 



oiigleat f ayers, ^.|, i^^^— 1^88. 



By the Rev. Canon Jackson, F.S.A. 

 [Continued from p. 216.] 



VI.— Wiltshire Provision for the Queen^s Household. 



?HE several counties of England were formerly charged with 

 the supply of a certain proportion of provisions for the royal 

 household, to be furnished, not in money, but in kind : as cattle, 

 poultry, &c. The Sheriff was the responsible officer. In certain 

 counties famous for special dainties or productions, the royal 

 wants were attended to by him : as for instance : the Sheriff of 

 Bristol was ordered to send up conger-eels; the sheriff of Glouces- 

 tershire, lampreys. In 37 Hen. III. the Sheriff of Wilts was 

 ordered to buy a 1000 ells of fine linen-cloth, for the King's 

 wardrobe : and 1 Edward II. 2000 ells of canvas against the 

 King's coronation. The following letters relate to the replenishing 

 of the Queen's larder, temp. Elizabeth. 



I. A.D. 1568, 16 July. From the Justices of Peace assembled at Salisbury, 

 to the Sari of Pembroke, Lord Lieutenant of the Co. Wilts. 



" May it please yonr honor to be advertysed. That we at this present Assises 

 have conferred together towching the Q,uene's Ma"*'' provision of grain within 

 thys Sheare [sAiVe] according as Syr John Zouche promysed y^ honor. And in 

 the end have uppon long debate growen to this, That the Queue's Ma*'^ shall 

 have for her provision as moche wheate as thys Sheare wyll yelde conveniently 

 paying for the best wheate to serve her Ma''^'' pro^dsion, after the rate that the 

 thirde wheate shall be soldo in the markett at the same daye and places. Her 

 Ma"*'' purveyor shall provyde the same without charginge the countrye with 

 the caridge of the same but according to the lawes in that case provyded. And 

 this as much as we are able, to persuade our poor neyghbours unto, trustynge 

 yo'. honor will accept thys our uavell in good parte, or otherwyse that we be 

 VOL. XIV. NO. XLI. T 



