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of the Seventeenth Century. 79 
of the body after execution at Dorchester, A.D. 1705, may be re- 
membered, when ten thousand people are said to have assembled to 
witness it in the Amphitheatre at that place. There is a distinction 
made between the principal felon and the accessory ; the body of the 
latter is not to be burnt. 
“ DEVON. Exeter Assizes, March 10th, 1676. 
Ann Evans an apprentice indicted and conved. of poisoning her 
Master’s wife and daughter, one Phillippa Carey wife of Robert 
Carey being conved. of being accessory before and after ye fact at 
Plymouth a populous towne, and Exen. there will be of publique 
example That they bee excd. in some convenient place in the towne 
neare where the sd. psons were poisoned and murdered Ann Evans 
to be drawne on a hurdle to the place where she shall bee executed 
and there to bee burnt to death. And the said Phillippa Carey 
to be hanged on a Jibbett to be set upp for that purpose by yee 
necke untill shee bee dead. And the Under Sheriffe of this County 
his deputy is hereby required to see this order punctually performed 
in every particular as hee will answere the contrary att perill. And 
*They—Mr. yee day for the same execution to bee Thursday in Easter Weeke 
Weekes (The being the thirtyeth day of this instant March between ye howers 
Master) or of tenn and two of the Clock. But if they* shall fayle to undertake 
the Magis- before Haster to defray the extraordinary expenses thereof the sd. 
trates of | Execution is to bee donne att the tyme aforesaid in the ordinary 
Plymouth. place for Execution of malefactors in ye said County of Devon.” 
With two more I must conclude. And here, too, we note again 
the absence of the touch of the vanished hand of a past procedure, 
whilst several of the descendants of the Justices survive amongst 
our present Magistracy. 
“ SoMERSET. Taunton Wed. March 17th 1676. 
Upon the psentment of the Grand Inquest for the County 
aforesaid made att the Assizes concerning an house built at Pawlos 
Street in Taunton for the meeting of Dissenters from the Church 
of England to the encouragement of faction and contrary to a late 
Act of Parlt. The Cort recommends presnt. to J. P. at next Qr. 
Sessions to bee holden after the feast of Easter.” 
“Wires. New Sarum July 15 1676.—Richard Raynsford and Humfrye 
Littleton. 
Complaynts about the Overseers accounts for the Parish of Calne 
Cort desires St Thomas Estcourte, Thomas Bennett, Thomas 
Chamberlayne, Robert Drew, Nevill Maskeline, Jeffery Daniell 
and John Sharpe Seven of his Majesties’ Justices of the Peace for 
the County aforesaid or any three or more to enquire into the 
matter. 
. Circuit Order Book No. 3, 1652—1679. 
