104 Extracts from the Records of the 



Assizes, New Sarum, 26th February, 20th Elizabeth : — 



" Md to stay process against Artliur Redfern and others now at this Assizes 

 indighted because they have putt their cause in * compromise to Mr. Stephens 

 and Mr. Edward Waldron. 



Michaelmas Sessions, 20th Elizabeth : — 



" Order is taken that Parett shall comytt the matter between Strugnall and 

 him in * compromise and shall not troble the Court in the meane time — by the 

 suretye of Mr. Mychell of Sarum." 



But any such composition needed the approval of the court. Mark 

 Farland of Salisbury, was indicted for compounding with one Henry 

 Hillard upon a penal statute before answer made. 



Epiphany, 44th Elizabeth : — 



" Yt is ordered by this Courte that Edward Estcourte and Giles Tooker Esq' 

 . . . . shall call before them or either of them William Trendall and John 

 Trendall and examine the matter of Johan Hayter Spinster against the saide 

 William Trendall and they or either of them shall consider whether the saide 

 William Trendall hath receyved the saide John Hayter's stocke into his hands or 

 not or whether he did agree and promise to finde the saide Johan Hayter duringe 

 her life in considercon of the said stocke or not And whether the same stocke 

 be still detayned and the saide Johan Hayter put from the saide William Trendall 

 or not and to end that cause yf they can or otherwise .... to binde the 

 eaide William Trendall and John Trendall to appear at the next sessions . . • 



. that the Court maye ende the same matter according to right and equitie." 



Epiphany, 44th Elizabeth : — 



" Yt is ordered .... that the matter conteyned in the peticon of the 

 Inhabitants of the Tithinge of Awston in the hundred of Broad Chalke .... 

 remayinge in the file of this Sessions be referred to the hearinge and examination 

 of Sir James Mervyn Knight Henry Willoughby and Walter Vaughan Esq" 

 Justices .... and they to report their opinion therein before the Feast of 

 Easter next unto the Eight Eeverend Father in God Henry Bishop of Sarum and 

 he to certifie the same together with his owne opinion of the matter . . . • 

 unto the next Generale Sessions." 



Epiphany, 44th Elizabeth : — 



"All manner rates taxes and charges taxable upon the inhabitants of the 

 hundred of Underditche referred to the hearing and consideracon of the L. Bishop 

 of Sarum .... and six others." 



• The word compromise here retains its primary meaning of an agreement for reference to arbi- 

 tration, not an arrangement brought about by mutual concessions. 



