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Communicated by R. W. Meeeiman, Geik of the Peace. 



REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. 



Tal/le of Extracts and Notes. 



I. — Minute Books and Great Rolls. 



Not in many counties are there still extant records of proceedings 

 at quarter sessions in regular continuity from the end of the six- 

 teenth century to the present day. The rarity of such a possession 

 is no matter for surprise. While the archives of a city or college 



' These extracts are transcribed for publication under the express sanction of 



The Earl of Radnor, Gustos Rotulorum of the county. They do not pretend to 



deal adequately with the subject which they imperfectly illustrate : and have no 



higlier aim tliau to afford examples of the sort of material which a reader might 



. expect to find to his hand in the records of the Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 



