Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 25 



"The Examynacon of Thomas Eaye thelder of the 



cittye of Newe Sarum aforesayde Clothier taken 



before the right wor" Tho' Hancock Maor of the 



sayd Cittie S'' Edward Penruddock Knight Edward 



Estcourte Esq'" and Richard Godfrey gent Justices 



of His Mat' peace in the sayd Cittie theThirtyeth 



daye of Maye in the fowerth yeare of the Raigne 



of 0' Sovereigne lord James the King's Mat'' that 



now is. 



" This Exate saythe Tht he and one Barnabye sometime the servant of John 



Stallenge went to Grene Craftn nere unto the Cittie wher the sayd Barnabye 



p'swaded Will'" Smythe to go w'l^ hym and this Exate unto Claringdon P'ke to 



kill a deare and metinge w* Stephen Boman was enticed or p'swaded to go wt*» 



them who uppon Twesdaye about Ten or^ Eleven of the clocke in the nighte went 



all together from Grene Crafte aforesayd unto Claringdon Parke havinge with 



them one horse and two greyhounds and when they were come nere to the P'ke 



pale they lefte the horse nere unto Laverstocke peninge and theruppon the sayd 



Barnabye together w''^ the other two went into the Parke wher they killed one 



male deare w^^i* they broughte unto this Exate wheruppon this Exate came awaye 



from them to his owne house and the others followed hym and broughte the sayd 



Deare to this Exats howse vf'^'^^ deare was broken uppe by the said Barnabye 



. . . . and pte thereof was baked by one Cragge and eaten in this Exats 



howse on Assencon daye at supper. 



" T Hancock Maior Edw Peneuddok Rig Godfbet 

 "Edw Estcotb." 



A few further examples may be pardoned. 



Michaelmas, 1609. Depositions that William Hall and Jeffery 

 Benger, of Milton : — 



" Made an appointment to meete in Mylton Heathe that night between nyne 

 and ten of the clocke wheare they met a horse backe accordinglie and from thence 

 rode togeather throughe Wootton Laune to the gate of the Greate P'ke of 

 Savernake called Wootton Gate * . . . . Benger and he ... . had 

 ether of them a crosse bowe and as scone as they weare entred w*in the P'ke 

 they went up and downe .... to wyn a shoote at a deare but killed none 

 . . . . and towardes the morninge retourning back to the gate of the sayd 

 p'ke wheare they came in they weare theare incountred by the keep's of the sayd 

 Fke." 



L At the same sessions Robert Shepperd deposes : — 



B " That being at the Church of Melkesham that day at a sermone, his wife sent 



R^ unto him by direction of on W"" Nolly .... to repai-e to his house . . 

 ^■L _ . to make a start with him into the Forrest [of Blackmore] ther to shew 



L 



• The unlockinff of this gate was rather a troublenome husiness — and theie is a suggestion of the 

 manufacture of a key for future needs. 



