186 "Justice in Warminster in the Olden Time." 



Lubbock, Bart., M.P., The Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, G. T. S. 

 Estcourt, Esq., M.P., G. P. Fuller, Esq., G. Goldney, Esq., M.P., 

 W. H. Poynder, Esq., J. W. G. Spicer, Esq. 



The Committee was re-elected, with the following additions : Rev. 

 E. L. Barnwell, A. B. Fisher, Esq., Rev. A. B. Thynne, Rev. Canon 

 Warre. 



The General Secretakies, Local Secretaries, General 

 Curators and Treasurer were re-elected. 



*' |tt$tice in Waminstet m i\t ®lhu %\m!* 



By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq., 

 Honorary Secretary of the Wiltshire Society, founded A.D. 1817, and Recorder of Andover. 



" I see men's judgments are 

 A parcel of their fortunes ; and things outward 

 Do draw the inward quality after them, 

 To suffer all alike." 



(Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3, s. 13.^ 



$f||l5^;HEN I received the summons of our Secretary, to address 

 ir^i| you on a subject connected with this locality, there appeared 

 the difficulty, so commonly felt, that though it abounds with ancient 

 remains, yet history had preserved but a few faint facts, and many 

 of these had already been brought under your notice. However, o£ 

 justice, as it used to be in this district, I have a few notes, which I 

 offer to the future historian of "Warminster. 



Did a Roman judge live at the villa at Pitmead? Were the 

 Mauduits, Lords of Warminster, worthy successors of the Royal 

 Manor Court ? You can perhaps answer these questions for your- 

 selves. You find an ancient Church,^ an old nunnery, a good market, 

 to which the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Could 



' Which an order of A.D. 1626 says : "Weeps many a fi-esh tear for her de- 

 cayed house, especially when the wind is in the west." In 1620 an action was 

 brought by the Yicar of Warminster, against the feoffees of the chapel of St. 

 Lawrence, for not doing their duty. Stirring times ! 



