82 Extracts from the Records of the 



At the following Easter Sessions, order is made to " call the con- 

 stables of every hundred to accompt to see whether they have made 

 their collections for the house of correction .... and that the 

 money behinde be forthwith gathered and delivered to Mr. Vennard.'' 

 At the same time the collection for the relief of prisoners was 

 continued at twopence of every parish weekly, until further order be 

 taken. 



At the Easter Sessions, 22nd Elizabeth : — the officers of the house 

 of correction are continued for another year. 



At the Hilary Sessions, 28th Elizabeth : — occurs the not par- 

 ticularly lucid entry : — 



" Md that the consideration of the gaol money is referred to the order of Mr. 

 Edward Penruddock Mr. John Penruddock and Mr. Giles Estcourt or to two of 

 them." 



While at the Easter Sessions, 32nd Elizabeth : — are found the 

 following more intelligible words; characteristic of questions which 

 have arisen within living memory in relation to another Fisherton 

 Prison and another claim of way-leave : — 



" It is ordered at this Sessions by the Justices that Mr. Richard Gauntlet shall 

 have seven feet of breadth to part the land at Fisherton for a way to his orchard 

 and garden that he bought of Mr. Barrow adjoining to the gaol at Fisherton 

 Anger." 



The collection of the gaol money furnishes the only example 

 found among the Elizabethan Minutes of an assessment to a County 

 Rate set out in detail. It is in the words following : — 



" Wilts. A Eate by the Justices at this Sessions being for the levyinge money 

 for the Gayle 



For somuch dew to Weekes as appeareth xxvj' xiij' iiij* 



For reparacons about the Gayle laj'd out ") ...[.. 



by the Shreife as appeareth by his bill ) ^^^•' ^-l 



Morr for devidinge certeyne Romes there x^ 



Sum' xlv' iiij* 

 It is to be levied upon these vj divisions viz 

 Imprimis Thearle of Pembroke his division ix' 

 S^ James Mervyn his division vij' x' 



S' Tho. Wroughton's division vij' x' 



S' John Danvers division vij' 



S' Edward Bayntons division vij' x' 



S' Walter Hungerford's division vi' 



James Mervyn John Danvers John Penruddock 



Edw. Penruddock Henr. Knyvet Hen. Poole 



Henry WiUoughby Tho. Wroughton Willm Reade 



