20 A ROYAL PURVEYANCE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. 



The Justices in their turn issued the following precept to the 

 High Constables of each Hundred, through the Sheriff of the 

 County, who was the responsible officer : 



A Copie of the Warrant from the Justices of the Peace 

 to the Constables of every division at the time of the 

 assessment for wheat, poultry, etc. 



PASTEOE. 



We have us co'mended unto you, etc: As well the 

 honorable as other the Co'missioners within the County 

 of South' n considering the great quietnesse that might 

 grow unto the Queenes Mamies subjectes within the 

 same in setting downe by order what shalbe yealded 

 out, viz.: of wheate, stirtes, lambes, geese, and poultry of 

 every hundred for the prouision of the Queenes Mattes 

 most honorable household : have with great consider- 

 a'con and ther whole consente assessed the hundred of 

 Pastrowe to deliver at the dayes and times agreed upon, 

 of wheate xv qrters, v lambes, iiij geese, iiij capons, 

 xj pulletts, vij hennes. And that the same may be 

 better accomplished and done with most indifferencye : 

 These shalbe to charge you whose names as heer under 

 written, that you who be together appere before us at 

 Whitchurch on ffriday, the vj th of May next, coming 

 by eight of the clocke in the morning, ther as well to 

 answer us to sutch cawses as we have to deale with you 

 towching the same, as all so sutch articles as heer in we 

 p r scribed unto you. 



Imprimis wee will that you certifie unto us in writing the same 

 day and time how many acres of land every p'son hath in his or 

 her oecupa'con within your hundred, (the demesnes of every 

 Justice of the Peace where he dwelleth only excepted): with 

 indifferency, viz., how mutch errable, how mutch meadow, how 

 mutch pasture, how mutch woode or waste ground eche holdeth. 



It 111 that you certifie what parsonages you have within 

 your hundred, the number of acres in gleebe. The 



Bart., a descendant of the famous John Winchcombe, better known as "Jack 

 of Newbury," the patriotic clothier. There is a pedigree of Ward, of Hurst, 

 in Ashmole's Berkshire, which shows that Colnbra, wife of Richard Ward, 

 was the daughter of William Lambard, of Chertsey, CO., Surrey, and Alice, 

 his wife, daughter of Thomas Tasburgh, of Suffolk. 



