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Shevitts of Wiltshire. 
By the Rey. J. E. Jackson. 
A List of the Sheriffs of this County from 1 Henry II. (1154), 
to 25 Henry VI. (1446), when the Shrievalty ceased to be held ea 
officio by the Castellans of Old Sarum, is printed in Hatcher and 
Benson’s “History of Salisbury,” part II, p. 706. A still longer 
one, from 1 Henry II. to 4 Charles I. (1628), is to be found in 
“ Fuller’s Worthies,” vol. II, (8vo), under the head of “ Wiltshire,” 
and the same, with continuation down to 1821, was printed by the 
late Sir R. C. Hoare in a thin folio volume called “ REPERToRIuM 
Witronense,”! of which work, however, only twenty-five copies 
were struck off for private distribution. In all these lists there is 
a frequent mis-spelling of names, and (the more modern portion of 
Sir R. C. Hoare’s excepted) a total want of identification of the 
Sheriffs, by reference to family history, property, or residence. 
In the following list (though it by no means pretends to be free 
1 The title of this very scarce book is as follows. ‘‘ REPERTORIUM WILTON- 
ENSE,” printed with a view to facilitate inquiry into the Topography and 
Biography of Wiltshire. Collected by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Baronet. Bath, 
Richard Cruttwell, 1821.” The contents of the volume are as follows:—1. List 
of Cities and Boroughs in Wilts which send Representatives to the British 
House of Commons, with particulars of the respective returning officers, rights 
of election, &c.; extracted from Beatson’s Chronological Register. 2. Knights 
of the Shire from 26 Edward I. 3. Borough Members to 1821. 4. High Sheriffs 
from A.D. 1154 to 1821. 5, Wiltshire Gentry temp. Charles I. and II. (Harl. 
MS. 1057). 6. Ditto a.p, 1565 (Harl. MS. 1111). 7. A second list of ditto. 
8. Justices of the Peace a.p. 1667. 9. Wilts Gentry who contributed to the 
defence of the Country at the time of the Spanish Invasion a.p, 1588. 10, 
Knights of the Royal Oak, with value of their estates, A.p. 1660. 11. Names 
of personages who came in with William the Conqueror, whose families appear 
_ to have been connected with the County of Wilts, (v. Leland. Collect. I. 208), 
12, Wilts’ Nobility. 13. Bishops.—I. Of Sherborne. II. Wilton and Sherborne, 
Ill. Sarum before the Reformation. IV. Sarum since the Reformation. 13, 
Nomina villarum, Edward II. (1308-9). 
