100 Extracts from the Records of the 



each for two sureties, the condition in each case had heen for appear- 

 ance at this Epiphany Sessions and for good behaviour in the 

 meantime, in two instances the persons are named towards whom 

 the peace was to be kept. 



Then follow the recognizances forty-eight in number, taken by 

 Justices out of sessions. {De Recogn p jiistic ad ist crtificat.) The 

 £40 and £20 penalties here again find favour, though £20 and 

 £10 have the preference. In one case the penalty is 100 shillings. 



The names of the certifying justices are always recorded, and the 

 result is noted above the entry. Here and there a default is noted, 

 but the almost invariable appearance of the person bound, is strong 

 proof of the efficacy of the recognizances for the purpose for which 

 they were imposed. 



The particular purpose of each recognizance and the action of the 

 court thereon, is indicated in the briefest terms only. Appearance 

 and discharge (" Comp and Ecco ") was the general happy result, and 

 sometimes the reader is referred to the Sessions Rolls, (" et ult' ut pt 

 in bundello") for the further history of the case. 



Yet a third group of recognizances remains to be mentioned, viz., 

 those, seventy in number, which were entered into at this quarter 

 sessions for appearance at the next. 



But even so the weary tale of bail- giving and suretyship does not 

 draw to a close until the next set of orders has been disposed of, this 

 was the grant of seven licences for keeping common Taverns, in 

 each of which cases bail for " good rule " was required as a con- 

 dition of the application. 



Next follows the real criminal business of the court, the delivery 

 of the gaol and the indictments at this sessions. 



Capital sentences were passed upon two persons convicted of 

 highway robbery at Winterborne Gunner, but as to one of them, 

 convicted on his own confession, there was respite after judgment. 



Another trial for highway robbery at Milford, ended in an acquittal, 

 and the only charge of burglary became reduced to one of larceny, 

 for which the favourite sentence of whipping was passed. In three 

 other instances a like offence met with a like punishment. In a 

 fourth there was the happier issue of pardon and discharge, while in a 



