34) Extracts fvom the Eecords of the 



others, whoe answered hee caved not for S' Gyles Wroughton and that hee was 

 as good a man as S' Gyles Wroughton and y' said Layland replyed and told him 

 hee had much forgotten himself and told him hee was a gent of wor' and one of 

 the Kings Justices, and the said Dismere very audaciously replyed he cared not, 

 he was but a man, and cared not for him. 



" Upon Trinity' Sonday last past Thomas Smith of Oi-ston .... Taylor 

 and Robert Pope .... yeomen beioge in the howse of John Messum 

 . . . towards the eveninge and chaunceinge to come into the company of 

 Edward Dismere .... they heard the said Dismere boast and say hee 

 was as good a man as S' Gyles Wroughton and said yf hee had mett him in the 

 f elide he thought (in his conscience) he should be the better man." 



Trinity, 1606 :— 



"Immediately after Ste Peeter's day beinge fayer at Marleboroughe at the 

 signe of the Harte there in the afternoon of the same day .... Edward 

 Dysmer sayde he would never submitt himself to S' Gyles Wroughton whiles he 

 lyved .... and further replied he was a better man in the field than S' 

 Gyles was / and lastly sayd S'' Gyles Wroughton was p'jured." 



This was rather more than his worship felt called upon to endure 

 patiently : he states his case in ths following letter to the bench of 

 magistrates who were keeping sessions at Warminster from the 8th 

 to the 17th of July, 1606 :— 



" I am sorrye I am not able to travell to meete yo" at this Sessions by reason of 

 late sicknes I have bene %'isited w^i^all especially because in former tyme I have 

 bene abused by a lewde stubborne fellow one Dysmer whoe have therefore beene 

 bounde to the good behaviour two or three sessions And whereas y' was ordered 

 at the last Q'ter Sessions he should come and submytt himself unto me I 

 acknowledg his submission and as I thought in my judgement to be vearye 

 penitent and doubted not but his reformacon had beene in honest meaninge But 

 I am veary credybly informed ytt fallethe out otherwise As my man will showe 

 you a Copye thereof In what most wilde sorte he continueth abusinge mee still. 

 I p'test unto you all uppon my creditt I forgive him w^h my hai-t. And nev' 

 did p'secute any matter against him in mallice But onely that such a paltrye 

 fellow as he should better know himself And I woulde thei-efore desier you all 

 to consider of the newe abuse he hath donne me and to deale w^** him in equyty 

 and justice in my absence as you would I should doe y' lyke for anye of you in 

 the lyke case That hee maye remayne to the good behaviour untill I have 

 further speeche w'^^ him Soe nothinge doubtinge of you' love herein with my 

 veary kinde salutacons I rest 



"you' assured and lovinge frinde 



"Gyles Weoxtghtok." 

 " Broadhenton the xvj'li of July 1606." 



" To my veary lovinge friudes S' Jasp' Moore S' Willm Eyre S' Walter Longe 

 S' Alexander Tutt Knights and Lawrence Hyde Esqre w"^ the rest of my fellow 

 Justices geve these." 



