By the late F. A. Carrington, Esq. 63 



any of these orders or ordinances as not meet to be continued, that from thence- 

 forth it shall be utterly void. 



"Item, that these our proceedings may succeed in the fear of God, wee do 

 therefore ordain and determine that at what time the Alderman and other officers 

 of the said town are yearly to be chosen, that they may the better discharge 

 their duties and conferences whilst they are in authority ; that the said Alder- 

 man, Capital Burgesses, and other Burgesses of the said town shall repair unto 

 the church in their gownes devoutly there to hear the Divine Service, and after 

 Divine Service to repair to the Town Hall for the election of officers and other 

 business therto belonging, ' and that every Burgess on summons by the Alder- 

 man appear at the Town Hall touching the affairs and business of the town, 

 aud come in their gownes devoutly,' upon pain of every Capital Burgess to for- 

 feit 3s. 4d., and every Secondary Burgess 2s., without some lawful excuse to 

 be allowed by the Alderman and Capital Burgesses, or the most part of them. 



Lastly, these Orders and Constitutions shall be openly, solemnly, and distinctly 

 read over in the Common Hall, four times in the year (that is to say) once in 

 every quarter and notice thereof to be given in the Parish Church there, on the 

 next Sabbath Day, before such time as the said orders shall be appointed to be 

 read. 



" In witness whereof wee Sir William Jones and Sir James Whitlocke, two 

 of His Majesty's Justices of the Pleas before himself to be holden, and Justices of 

 Assize for the said County of Berks, have hereunto according to the form of th e 

 statute in this case made and provided * sett our hands and seals at Heading, the 

 18th day of July, in the f rst year of the reign of King Charles [the first] 

 Anno q., Dni., 1625. 



'• Will. [L.S.] Jones. James [L.S.] Whitlocke.f 



Thomas Godicyn, Bishop of Bath and Wells, a native of Woking- 

 ham, 

 "51. Thomas Godwyn was consecrated Sept. 13, 1584. He 

 was a native of Oakingham in Berkshire, and had his education in 

 the free school of that town. Removing thence to Oxford he was 

 entered at Magdalen College in 1£38. In 1543 he took the degree 

 of B.A., then became Fellow of the College, and M.A. in 1547. 

 But being of the reformed persuasion he incurred the odium of 

 the society, relinquished his Fellowship, and took the Mastership 

 of Brackley School in the county of Northampton. In this station 

 he married and continued till the death of Edw. VI., when Queen 



• Vide Stat. 19. Heu. VII., -what Bye Laws ought to be obserTed, and confirmed, asd by -n-hom. 



+ Sir James Whitlocke was a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, in the reigns of James I., 

 and Charles T. Jly friend Mr. John Bruce. V.P.S.A., says in his introduction to the Liber Famelicus 

 that "A marriage with an heiress of the De La Beches near the end of the reign of Henry VI., 

 first brought the Whitlockes into consideration; by this marriage a John Whitlocke became 

 possessed of the Manor of Beeches near Okingham, co. Berks." 



