830 Extracls from the Records of the 



5. Trial at bar for treason — conviction — sentence, hanging, 



drawing, and quartering. 



6. Appearance and remand until issue joined. 



7. Appearance, plea, and adjournment. 



8. Arrest by sheriff, acquittal on defective indictment. 



The precept convening the Easter Sessions, 1603 ; the return of 

 the sheriff thereto ; and an indictment for murder found by the 

 grand jury at the Easter Sessions, 1605, are added as appendices. 



APPENDIX. 

 Precept convening the quarter sessions, Easter, 1603 :— 



" Jacobus dei gra Angl Scocie Franc and Hib'nie Rex fidei defensor &c Vic: 



Wiltes. P'cipim' tibi q"" non omitt' p'pter aliqua lib'tat: Com: tui quin p'clamari 

 fac p' totam ballivam tuam Gen'alem Sessiouem pacis nram com: tuo cons'vand 

 apud Devizes in eodem com: die Martis p'x post elm [clausum] Pascbe p'x 

 futur: tenend. Ac q'' venire fac coram Justic: nris ad pacem in dco Com: 

 cons'vand ac ad div'sa felon t'nsgr' and al malefca in eodem Com p'petrat 

 audiend and t'minand assign ad diem and locum p'dcos tam xxiiij"' lib'os et 

 legles holes de corpore Com tuo quor'quilt heat xl" terre tentor vel reddit: per 

 ann'ad minus qm ones constabular et ballios hundredor libertat et Burg sequent 

 videlt Hundred de Bradford Calne Potterne et Cannings Malmesbury et Melksham 

 Libtatum Hundri c- e Chippenham Bromeham and Eowde et Burgi de Devizes 

 Necnon de quoit Hundro Lib'tate et Burgo pdict xxiiij" p'bos and legles boies 

 ad fac and exequend ea quts tunc and ibm ex p'te nra eis injungent' P'venire fac 

 eciam ad dcos diem et locu oies and singles^ constabular and Ballios pdcos q"* 

 tunc sint ibi hentes secum noia omn' .... * artific labor et s'vien' 

 husbandr vad contra formam statut inde edit excessive capien Et qd omnes illi 

 qui tam pro nobis qm p seipis v'sus .... * artific labor et s'vient 

 husdandr aut aliquos alios aliquas querelas juxta formam et efEcm {^effectum] 

 ordinaconm and statuor nror bujus regni nri Angl conqueri vel p'cequi volunt q* 

 tunc sint ibi billas and querelas illas p'sequturi justiciamq ibm subituri si sibi 

 vid expedir Et qd tmpe tunc ibm sis vel subvic tuus ad fac and exequend ea 

 que officio tuo incumbunt Et beas ibi noia tm constabularo ballior p'dcor qm 

 jurator p'dcor unacum hoc bre T. Edro Comit Hertf"* xxiij" die Aprilis Anno R. 

 n. Angl Franc and Hib'nie primo and Scocie tricesimo sexto. 



" Kent." 



Return of the sheriff to the foregoing precept^endorsed thereon:— 



•' Virtute istius bres mihi dirci pclamari feci p totam balliam meam Generalem 

 Sessionem pacis in Com: infrascript cons'vand apud Devizes die m'ts px post elm 



* Apparently humoi, easily expanded into hty'Mmodi, 



