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Edmunde Ludlowe [Hill Deverill] the 7 May 25 
John Cornall [? Cornwall, of Marlborough] the 10 May 25 
Sir Edward Baynton [Bromham] thell May 25 
Thomas Wallys [P Trowbridge] the 12 May 26 
Dame Jane Brydges [Ludgershall] the 19 May 25 
Henry White [P Charlton] the 25 May 25 
Anthony Geeringé [Sherston-Pinkney] the 14 May 26 
William Lea [? Leigh] the 25 May 25 
June. Thomas Walton’ the4 June 25 
Nicholas Downe the 8 June 26 
William Darell [‘‘ Wild Darell,” of Littlecote] the12June 650 
Peter Polden the 14 June 25 
William Noyes the 15 June 25 
Richard Lavington [P Wilsford] the same day 25 
John Streete the 15 June 25 
George Farewell [? Farewell, of Holbrook, Co. Som., Mar. into 
Horton fam.] the 22 June 25 
July. Sir John Danvers [ Dauntsey] thel July 50 
November. John Harding [P Pewsey] the 12 Nov. 25 
William Brouncker [of Melksham] the same day 25 
Che Orders of Shretoton. 
Communicated by the Rev. Canon BENNETT. 
VERY interesting agreement of the freeholders, tenants, and 
commoners of the parish of Shrewton, dated 9th March, 
1599, is engrossed in the oldest register of the Church.’ It consists 
of seventeen orders, which are subscribed by the landowners, the 
vicar, and other parishioners. They were drawn up and agreed to 
1 This register book consists of thirty leaves of parchment stitched into a cover 
made from a part of a deed of “. . . . year of our Soveraigne Lord Charles 
y° Second.” It is 103in. high xX 53in. wide. The first and last leaves are 
imperfect, and the whole book has suffered a good deal from damp and mildew. 
Births, deaths, and marriages are entered in order as they took place under each 
year from 1557 to 1649—when it appears to have been left in the charge of 
Robert Wansbrough, the churchwarden, in whose family it remained till Easter, 
1860, when it was very gracefully restored to the Church, with the following 
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