Wiltshire Provision for the Queen's Household. 239 



the gentlemen of this shiere can truly enforme you, being forced by the want 

 thereof within the County to make their necessary provision for their stables oute 

 of the Countyes near adjoyning and not within the shere. besides that this 

 County doth yelde a contynual provision of otes, hay and litter to the Studdery 

 at Cole Park* wherewith the County is charged more than there is ability therein 

 to beare by reason of the smaU store thereof growing within the same, for 

 which causes remembered agayne to his honor the last yere uppon a second 

 Commission sent into this County, it pleased his honor to calle to him the 

 Avener f and Thomas Harryson the Surveyor and expressly to comaunde them 

 that there should be sent hither no more suche Comissions but that this County 

 shoulde be reserved onely for the Studdery as ever before tyme it had byn. We 

 hope and do humbly besech youre good lordeship that uppon thes just and true 

 causes before alleaged such order may be taken by yo^ honor that the like 

 comyssions may not hereafter be graunted, and that this now abrode may be 

 lecalled without eny Trouble to the Constables for not answering in the otes 

 whereto they were comaunded by precepte bycause we assure your honor upon 

 our poore creditts that the country is not able neyther was ever compelled to 

 serve this provision for which we shall acknowledge ourselves much bounden 

 to your honor whose happy and prosperouse estate we most humbly recommend 

 to the grace and favor of the most high. From the Devizes this xvij*"" of Aprill 

 A». 1588. _ 



Your Lordships humbly to comaunde 



Jameb Mekvtn. Fkancis Zouch. 



Waltek Httngertoed. Edwaed Hungebfoed. 



Henby Knkvett. Jaspeb Moeb. 



John Danvees. Henby "Willoughby. 



Thomas Weotjghton. Michael Ehneley. 



Edwaed Baynton. "Willm. Reade. 



"William Beounckeb." 

 [^EndorsecC] 

 " The copy of the Justices of peace Letter 

 to my Lord of Essex Master of the Horse, 

 to have the County of Wiltes discharged 

 for paying of otes towards the provision 

 of Her Majestie's Horse at Reading." 



4. "A Note of the Provisions which Wiltshire purvey eth for Her MajeS' 

 tie's Household. A.D. 1594, May 22. 



Articles of Agrement and Composition had and made the xxij''' of May A». 

 xxxv*" Rne Elizabeth, betwene the right honorable the lordes of her ma*'''' 

 most honorable Privy Counsell, being authorized by Commissions for that pur- 

 pose on the behalfe of her Ma*'° And the right Worshipfull Sir Henry Knyvet, 

 Bir Thomas Gorges, Sir Thomas Wilks and Sir William Brouncker, Knights, on 

 the other partie, being authorized to compounde and conclude for the service of 



• Cole Park, near Malmesbur; : formerly a Grange of Malmesbury Abbey. When it came into the 

 hands of the Crown a Royal breeding stud was maintained there, temp. H, VIII : and as appears 

 from the present letter, also temp. Eliuabeth : and at the expense of the Co. Wilts. 



+ The clerk whose duty it was to keep account of the quantity of hay and oats, &c., required for 

 the Royal stables. From the Latin avena, oat- 



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