18 Extracts fr 07)1 the liecords of the 



Trinity, 1608:— 



*' Wheras wee are given to understand .... that they both have "bynn 

 p'ceeded w^'all .... in the Ecclesiastical Court by the censure and order 

 of w*^" Court they have binn enjoyned to suffer pennance vi'*' they accordingly 

 performed we doe therefore in o^ discretion think it fitt not to inflict any further 

 corporall puuishni' uppon them." 



Order of Justices dated 1st February, 1609, that an offending 

 person :— 



" Some one Sundaye before the feaste of Peuticoste next cominge, after the 

 seconde leasone, shall openly in the Church of Bishopstrowe acknowledge his 

 ofEence in this behalfe, and to desire the congrecacon then presente to praye uuto 

 God to forgive him." 



The following was the case o£ an infant not wholly destitute. 



Trinity, 1608 : 



" Whereas one Marie Somers an infant borne in the p'ishe of Cherington wher 

 by the law she ought to be releved and by the Overseers of the poore of the same 

 pishe hath ben appoynted to be kept by one John Leach the said Overseers 

 geveing to the said Leach for the same xviij'' weeklie And where the said 

 Leach hath kept the said Marie by the space of Fyftie weehes w*out anie 

 allowance hitherto for the same It is therefore thought fitt that the said p'ishe 

 of Churton ehall pay to the said Leach towards the laid charge xxviij'. And 

 forasmuch as Richard Stockden clerke Vicar of Cherton hath in his hands xiiij' 

 stocke of the said chiklos It is also ordered that the said Eichard Stockden shall 

 also pay towardes the same charge xxviij' w'='' is the ordinarie consideracon for 

 xiiij' for one year And whereas Robt Dickinson seised and tooke in to his 

 custodie the goodes of John Somers father of the said Marie, apprehended for 

 fellony by the use of Franncis Neale Esquire, and had the same in the lief tyme 

 of 4t>e said Somers many weekes before his conviction by w"^*" miodes the said 

 Somers untill his attaynder ought to be releeved It is therefor thought fitt that 

 the said Dickinson shall pay to the said Leach out of the said goodes the residue 

 of the same charge for keeping of the said childe for the tyme aforesaid." 



There were evidently occasions on which the court required proof 

 of a marriage. 



Hilary, 1604-5 :— 



" To Mr. Kempe [Kent] clarke of the peace in the County of Wiltes 

 "These are to certyfie you that .... and .... the daughter 

 of .... of Westashton within the p'ishe of Stepelashton are lawfully 

 solimnised in thjp Church the xxix'^ of November in the year of our Lord God lj604 



" John Eooebs Vicar there." 



