326 Extracts from the Becorrh of the 



the justices almost invariably required for compliance with the terms 

 of the statute. 



Not only were corn and gi'ain within the prohibition of the Act, 

 but no drover of cattle or buyer or transporter of butter or cheese 

 could legally follow his calling without a licence^ which ran for one 

 year only. 



Under such conditions it is not surprizing to find that licensees 

 were not always able to postpone the renewal of their licenses till 

 the season came round when the court would be sitting at the town 

 most accessible to them. John Tytcombe, of Compton Basset, 

 Thomas Dawson, of Kemble, Richai'd Kussell, of Rowde, John 

 Bristow, of Slaughterford, and Robert Butt, of Yattisbury, repaired 

 to Salisbury to enter into their recognizances. To Warminster 

 came applicants from Amesbury, Ashton Keynes, Boxe, Cannings, 

 and Wedhampton j while Devizes is visited by persons similarly in- 

 tent from Corsley, Durrington, Mayden Bradley, and Wanborough. 

 These were exceptions ; for the most part the intending licensees 

 resorted to the town least distant from them, and among such per- 

 sons was Thomas Browne, of East Lavington, who at Devizes, in, 

 April, 1587, is specially mentioned as licensed to trade " cum duobus 

 equis." 



A loose slip of paper, dated "xiij January 1574," (singular for 

 its quotation of the year A.D., and in the use of Arabic numerals) 

 contains the only instance, in the minute books, of the allotment of 

 several territories to the diflerent dealers named in it as " allowed 

 by the justices.''' The allowances were, for the Hundred of Alder- 

 bury, one badger ; Amesbury, two ; Bradford " and the towne," 

 three ; Calne, two j Chippenham, thi'ee ; Damerham, one ; Dun- 

 worth, one ; Potterne, two ; the liberties — of Rowde, two ; and West- 

 bury, two ; and the parishes — of Broadchalk, two ; and Lavington, 

 no number stated. 



At the Trinity Sessions, 18th Elizabeth : — 



" It is ordered at this Court that no foren'' or out dweller shall have any com 

 in Warm'' m'kett or eny other m'kett within Wiltes before xj of the clock in 

 the forenoon of sayd m'kett day And that no forin' or enj' other seller shall be 

 sufEeryd to ley in their corn in eny mans house but shall sell their com in the 



