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hard long winter, the necessities of the poor, all sober people 
abhorring the multitude of ale-houses and protesting against the 
unreasonable quantity of barley turned into malt which is wantonly 
and wickedly spent in such houses. Puritan justices would be ready 
to cut off the supplies of hostels where Cavaliers drank the King’s 
health and speedy return. But the Restoration put these matters 
on a different footing ; and at the summer assize, 15th September, 
1660, at Salisbury, we find the judges—Sir Robert Foster and Sir 
Thomas Tyrrell—granting licenses for ale-houses to Phineas Haines, 
at Quarr House, Donhead; and to Francis Yerbury, at his house at 
Bradford. On the petition supporting the first I find the names of 
William and Richard Lush, so well known in that district. 
It should be mentioned, too, that the orders, which had been 
written in English during the Commonwealth, are in Latin after 
the Restoration. 
Then in the same assize at Dorchester, September 10th, 1660, 
it is ordered that Sir John ffitzJames, Knight, Robert Coker, Esq., 
Thomas Moore, Esq., Walter ffoy, Esq., and Whiston Churchill, 
Esq., five of the Justices for the County, or any two of them, doe 
take care that ‘“‘The business concerninge the witchcraft and con- 
sultation with the Devill and Evill Spiritts in Sherborne bee with all 
speede examined,” and all concerned, and witnesses, to be bound 
over to appear at the next assize. 
- In 1662, July 15th, at Exeter, Sir Peter Prideaux, High Sheriff, 
informs the Court that the Lord Treasurer of England complains 
that the County is slow about paying the King’s contribution from 
the County—£12,060. The Commissioners, appointed by the Act for 
enabling the collection of the grant, are to meet in their several 
divisions and collect, or fine defaulters, and get all in by Ist 
September following. 
16th August (no year, but next in book, probably same <Assize). 
Order to Mayor of Launceston to appear at the next Quarter 
Sessions to show cause why he should not apply some of the funds 
of St. Leonard’s Hospital, near Launceston, to the inmates of St. 
Lawrence Hospital. He is to bring his charter with him. 
How changed is all this. Modern Courts of Assize would stare to 
