98 Extracts from the Becords of the 



Nor does Purveyance, familiar and long-standing cause of conten- 

 tion between soverigu and subject, seem to have roused in Wiltshire 

 the resentment which it excited further west. 



Epiphany, 20th Elizabeth : — 



" Md that at this Generall Sessions of the peace I was eomandyd to enroll this 

 Agrem' hereafter following vidlt. 



" Be it known to all men by these presents that we whose names are hereafter 

 ptycularly expressed have requested and authoryssed And by these p'sents Do 

 graunte and agree that the right Hon'able Henry Earle of Pembroke Sir John 

 Thynne Knight Sir John Dan vers Knight and Sir Henry Knevet Knight or thre 

 of them shall or may deale confer and conclude with the officers of Her Majesty's 

 most Hon'able Household for and in the behalf of all her Majesty's subjects 

 within this County of Wilteshr for her Majesty's better service for such provision 

 as hath byn heretofoi'e usyd to be taken and provided within this County of 

 Wilteshr for and towards the provision of Her Majesty's Household And what- 

 soever the said Earle of Pembroke Sir John Thynne Sir John Danvers and«Sir 

 Henry Knevet or thre of them shall do or agre upon for or concerning the premisses 

 or eny pte thereof We the p'sones whose names are hereunto subscrybed shall 

 and will at all times hereafter for and in the behalf of all her majesty's said sub- 

 jects within this County of Wiltes ratify avow and allow to be of as full force and 

 efEect as if orselves hadd done the same In wytnes whereof we the said p'sones 

 hereunder wryted have subscrybed o' names. Gevyn the x"' day of January in the 

 xx"> yere of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queue of Ingland 

 Fraunce and Ireland Defender of the fayth &c 



John Zouch Walter Hungerford 



James Mer^yn George Penruddocke 



Nicholas S' John Gyles Estcoui-t." 



At the Michaelmas Sessions, 1601, the Court heard that "Some 

 controversies are lately growen and risen amonge the inhabitants of 

 Xren Malford .... for and concerninge the rates for pro- 

 vision of Her Ma*'*^^ household and other paiements and somes 

 wherewith the said inhabitants are chargeable " but the discontent 

 seems to have been with inequality of apportionment rather than with. 

 quantity of taxation, and the matter was referred by the justices 

 (among whom is named with some circumstance "The Right 

 Honourable Sir John Popham, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of Eng- 

 land, and of Her Highnes most Honourable Privie Counseile,'') to Sir 

 Edward Hungerford, Knight, and William BayliiFe, Esq. 



But another and more distant sovereign made calls on the English 

 ratepayer : the " unspeakable Turk " made himself felt even among 

 the sequestered hamlets of Salisbury Plain. 



