By the Rev. Chr. Wordsworth 



313 



compared with § viij. of 1597, see p. 314, n. ^), having become 

 apparently larger, as freedom " broadened " somewhat swiftly — 

 " down, from precedent to precedent," in the course of half-a-dozen 

 years. Of the fifteen items of which the sum of the customs of 1603 

 consists as we here print it from the Eector of Wishford's Note- 

 book, as transcribed in 1822, no less than six cannot be found in 

 the customary of 1597, as copied in 1728. This will be seen from 

 the following table of comparison of sections : — 



A.D. 1597 A.D. 1603 A.D. 1597 A.D. 1603. 



The Elizabethan collection of customs opens thus : — 

 " The customes of the Manor of Great Wishford and Barford St. Martin 



set down in writing Anno Domini 1597° and regni domine nostre Elizabethe 



40°. 



" Impr^., the lords and freeholders of Wishford and Barford have and ever 



had an old anciente custom and of right ought to have for themselves and 



all their tenants common of pasture . . . ." 



The principal variations in what follows in the document of 

 1597 — 1729 have been indicated as far as possible in the notes on 

 pp. 294 — 300, above. But in the case of the fifth item of 1597 it 

 seems best to give the conclusion and addition in this place, to- 

 gether with the said seventeenth century additions and the con- 

 clusion of the whole. 



' Item X. in the Wishford Terrier of 1728 relates to a former custom of 

 fetching wood from the Trench for the common oven at Barford, and that 

 at Wishford. Whether the writer of the terrier had it before him in his 

 document of 1597, or whether he derived it from the Survey of 1632, which 

 he was also using, seems at least questionable. Dr. Straton agrees with me 

 in thinking that Mr. Penruddocke Wyndhsm obtained his copy of this item 

 from some independent source distinct from the 1597 " Sum." 



