Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 31 



Michaelmas, 1 604 : — 



" It is ordered that Bond shall dely ver possession of halfe the house in q'stion 

 betwene this and Monday night next at what time M' lies shall pay unto the 

 the sayd Bond xx' and other xx' shall be dely vered into the hands of Richard 

 Diggs Esquier or lefft at his house in Marleburgh on Monday nest come senenight, 

 to be payd unto Bond the xij*^ day of November next, the said Bond delyveringe 

 quiet possession of the residue of the house unto M' lies or his tenants the x"i 

 day of November before, or else now, and in the mean tyme the sayd Bond shall 

 do no wast nor spoyle in the house. 



" Also Plummer and Kynge Mr. lies tenaunts shall allowe xx*? nobles unto 

 Bond in account between them for such dues they can any way lawfully demaund 

 of Bond, and Plummer shall undertake {w'^^ he doth assent unto) y* his Sonne 

 being hurt shall discharge Bond and his sonnes of all actions and suyts whatsoev' 

 touching the same hui-t. 



"All actions and suyts to cease betwene the p'ties abovenamed, and M' lies 

 and the rest to certeffy my Lo. chieffe Justice that they are agreed That certificat 

 to be made after the possession of the whole messuage is delyvered as abovesaj-d. 



" If Bond p'forme not this Order, then Eestitutco immediately after the sayd 

 x^ii day of November next to be made of the possessio, by writte out of this 

 Courte, and the xx' to be repayd to M' lies w<=^ is to be delyvered as afforesaid 

 in deposite to the said Richard Digges." 



Robert Wall's unmannerly rejoinder to the tythingman had 

 reference^ evidently, to the standing grievanee of* Pm'veyance : 

 a grievance, however, which does not seem to have been resented so 

 much for its own sake as by reason of the partiality and injustice with 

 which the imposition was locally apportioned. John Batch elour, 

 of Newton Toney, seems to have had the conduct of the business in 

 that part of Wiltshire, and his endeavour to levy 20*. from some of 

 his neighbours led to the following^ closely-argued remonstrance :— 



" Complaint of Edward Clifford and Thomas Day of Boscombe unto William 

 Tooker Deane of Litchfeild one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the 

 Countie of Wiltes the 28'li day of Auguste 1609. 



[The acts complained of are fully stated.] 



" Nowe whether the said Batchelour intended to cosen the said Edward ClifEord 

 and Thomas Day of money towards the repaymt of the 20' which for theire ease 

 and good, as he said, he had laid out and paid to the cart takers, may playnlie 

 appeere ; for if he had disbursed the said 20' to the end aforesaid, and expected, 

 as he did and was assured of, to have it soe repaid him againe then would he not 

 imediately have charged them w'^ suche cariadge, especiallie when in the self 

 same p'ishe he might have taken a verie sufficient Teeme of Horses y* during 

 the King's Maties progresse served not at all : And if the said John Batchelour 

 payed uot the twentie shillings to the cart, then is his honestie as apparent as 

 his trueth. 



