THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



'multoeum manibus geande letatue onus." — Ovid. 



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 ^uarta cS^ssion^. 



■ Communicated by R. W. Meeeiman, Clerk of the Peace. 



(Continued from Vol. xxi., p. 121.^ 



REIGN OF KING JAMES THE FIRST. 



First Series, 1603—1609. 



The Accession — Sessions Rolls. — Muniment Room — Pensioners — ■ 

 Passports — Plague — Rates and Rating — Pauper Children — 

 Penance — Excommunication — Recusancy — Breach of the Peace 

 within consecrated precincts — Game Laws — Husbandry and 

 Common Fields — Purveyance — Scandalum magnatum — Police — 

 Misbehaviour — Liquor-laws — Official Communications to the 

 Court — Searchers o£ Cloth — Bridges — Larceny, subjects of 

 Theft — Miscellaneous Presentments — Practice and Procedure 

 — Appendix. 



^^HE chorus of jubilation, amid which "the modern Solomon'" 

 ascended the throne of England, found no echo at the 

 Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. If, like the obsequious legislators 

 of the day, the justices did indeed "upon the knees of their 

 hearts agnize " all the blessings of the Jacobean accession, they 

 controlled their feelings and proceeded to business, leaving on 

 their minutes no trace of courtly utterances. And the business 

 which occupied them under King James differed in no important 



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