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Some other articles of theft and their prices may be enumerated. 

 Horses and sheep, quoted at prices which extort a sigh from a 

 modern purchaser, give ground for indictments with a frequency 

 undeterred by the severity of the punishment for this sort of 

 larceny. They included a mare " coloris rone grey," value £8 ; a 

 gelding value 100«. ; "sheep hoggs coloris albi," value 3*. each. 

 From the poultry yard are stolen " Turkyes," and a hen value 

 4<?. From the garden " cabbidges." Among other purloined 

 articles appear " Two sesterns" ; " a quarter of a load of hey .... 

 of the value xrf. " j "a bushell of maulte " ; "a paire of sheets," 

 value 7*. ; " a HoUan sheete " ; " canvas sheets " ; " a woman's 

 gound," value 405.; ''Two wastcotts," value 10*.; "a fustian 

 wastcott " ; "a hatt," value 4«. ; " halfe a yarde of golde fringe,' 

 value Is. ; a sword, value 5*., and a pair of leather gloves [chiro- 

 ihecarum corit] value 6rt?." ; "acipers [Cyprus] hattbond " [unam 

 sjjiram], value 45. ; " a shirt," value 2«. ; " a doublett," value 5*. ; 

 " a table cloth," value 5*. ; " Kerchers," and " Hand Kerchers " ; 

 " Partletts," and " Foreheads " ; " Three silver spones " [tria coclear 

 urgenf] value 'dd. ; " a purse " \unam crumenan\ value 2*. ; " a 

 knife," value %d. ; " a wooden box" [unam ligneam pixidetti], value 

 2</. ; and " a skayne of white thread,'^ value \d. 



In conclusion some miscellaneous entries may be noticed. 



At the Trinity Sessions, 1607, appears the following presentment 

 from the Hundred of Dunworth : — 



" That the pownde of Chiklade have byn in default thes three monethes only 

 by the meanes of Mr. Thomas Mompesson of Gorton." 



From the Hundred of Warminster, the following : — 



" Item we doe present that thare wanteth a cooking stoole in the town of 

 Warraester which ought to be made and mayntayned by Simon Sloper being the 

 lorde Awdlye's baylyfEe." 



At the Michaelmas Sessions, 1609, was preferred a long indict- 

 ment concerning corn mills and fulling mills at Blacklaud and 



* The fringe, sword, and gloves, were burglariously stolen from the Lodge, at 

 Littlecote : the thief was hanged (Michaelmas, 1605). 



