Wiltshire Q^uarier Sessions. 5 



"4. Itm That there be sent to the 'I'hrcs of the maimed soldiers a Taxe of ev'y 

 p'ishe w"'iu ev'y sev'all divizion after the rate of iiij'' a p'ishe as was agreed at 

 the last Quarter Sessions at Easter and the arrerages to be p'sently levyed and 

 payed. 



" 5. Itm That all Lycences to be graunted to shoot in a Hand Gunn or Bird- 

 inge Pieces aceordinge to the last statute for Hawkes-meate shall be graunted in 

 open sessions and not to continue above one yeere. 



"6. Itm That no such Licence be grauted to an}' unlesse he shall bringe a 

 certificate under the hand and scale of some Justice of the Peace of that Divizion 

 wherein he dwelletii of his abilitye honestie and fitnes to have such Licences. 



" 7. Itm if anyone havinge such Lycens shall hereafter shoote at any other 

 foule or otherwise contrary to the statute in that behalfe made shalbe disabled to 

 have any such Lycence received at any time then after. 



".Ihon Hungeefobde La Hyde 



" Henky Maetyn G Tookee." 



Specially does the court seem to have been occupied with the case 

 of one Richai'd ISuraner, a pertinacious person^ who had no mind to 

 be satisfied with the frugal alms doled out to him by the county 

 almoner. His "patent" is found on the roll of the Michaelmas 

 SessiouSj 1605, and runs as follows : — 



" Whereas yt appeareth by the certificat of Sr Erasmus Vera Knight that the 

 bearer hereof Richard Somner served as a gonn' in the service at Ostend and by 

 the noyse of the gonne shott is become so dephe that cannot heare as also maymed 

 that is not longer able to serve forasmuch as by reason thereof he is to be releved 

 by vertue of the statut establyshed in the last Sessyon of Parliamt made for the 

 relyfe of hurt and maymed souldiers It is therefore not to be doubted but that 

 the Justices of the peace and Treasorers for the County of Wiltes wher he was 

 imprest will have a care to see hem provided of such a yearly stipent for his 

 reliefe and mayntenance as by the tenno' of the statut is ordayned to a servitor 

 of his place and quallyty From Belsis this first of February 1605. 

 "To the Riglit Wo' the Justices 



of the Peace and others the Trers " W. Waad." * 



for the monie collected for the re- 

 lyfe of hurt and maymed souldiers 

 for the county of Wiltes." 



On this paper the treasurer makes the following entries : — 



" Wyltes. Geven to the berer heroff the xxvij"" of March 1605,t xij''. 



" Wyllm Ley." 



• No doubt the same Sir William Wade who, as Lieutenant of the Tower, made way for Sir 

 Gervase Elwes at the time of the Ovetbury murder, and who, justly or unjustly, fell under suspicion 

 of concocting evidence against sir Walter Kaleigh. He is also. referred to as " Chief Muster-master " 



T Like many a modern correspondent when the year has just turned, Mr. Ley, wrote at first 1604 

 and then coirected th& last figure. 



