A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The borough of Gatton, in the nomination of Mistress Copley, a recu- 

 sant, is to be furnished with two suitable and loyal burgesses. Tenths 

 and fifteenths, granted by Parliament, are to be carefully collected, Feb- 

 ruary 20, 1573. Exertions are to be made to induce people to take up 

 more freely the State lottery, devised to bring in 200,000 to Eliza- 

 beth's Government in 1567, which seems to be neglected. A flaring 

 prospectus 1 was issued setting forth the advantage of the lottery, with 

 pictures of pieces of plate, presumably the prizes, looking not unlike old 

 church plate. It was not apparently as attractive as was hoped. In 

 1568 the lottery was still unsuccessful, and a special commissioner, John 

 Johnson, gentleman, was sent round Surrey and the neighbourhood to 

 induce well-affected persons to subscribe. Loans are demanded through 

 the local magnates ; persons of sufficient means are to have the obliga- 

 tion of advancing money strongly represented to them. The arrears of 

 loans are to be collected, and those persons who would not advance 

 money are to be made to enter into 'good bonds' for their appearance 

 before the Council, 'to answer for their obstinate refusal,' February 23, 



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There were many legal prohibitions or regulations to be put in 



force, to which the Council drew the attention of the justices. Un- 

 authorized cottages, erected without land attached, and cottages in the 

 Surrey bailiwick of the forest were to be pulled down. The Acts against 

 wasting of woods for charcoal making were to be put in force. A glass- 

 house started by an Italian near Guildford was to be put down. ' The 

 useless multitude of corn badgers and corn brokers ' in the county was to 

 be reduced, June 7, 1573." Bonds of sufficient security were to be re- 

 quired of tanners for their observance of the laws ' for the true and suffi- 

 cient tannynge of lether,' November 7, 1 574.* No plays or shows were 

 to be allowed in Surrey within 10 miles of London, from November 15, 

 1 574,* till after the next Easter, because of the plague. For a similar 

 reason in 1563 the fair on St. Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, was to 

 be forbidden. 5 



Of course the levying of troops and the keeping up of beacons were 

 constantly required. On August 28, 1576,* the Council ordered Sir 

 William More and Sir Thomas Browne to see that the ironmasters cast 

 no more iron guns than were needed for her majesty's service, as the 

 superfluity was only bought for strangers and pirates. Priests and 

 foreigners were continually being inquired after, and when arrested 

 remitted for examination backwards and forwards. The names of re- 

 cusants were to be returned ; their horses and arms were to be taken 

 away. Sectaries, of the most obscure station apparently, were to be 

 arrested. De Minimis Curabat Concilium. Lord Burgley wrote to Sir 

 William More about 'a strong speech' said to have been made by Sir 

 Edward Bray to one Mellersh, and wrote also to the body of justices on 



1 It exists at Loseley among the loose papers. 



* Loseley MSS. vii. 72. 3 Ibid. vii. zob. * Ibid. vii. 2lb. 



5 Ibid. September 12, 1563, ii. 53. 6 Ibid. vii. 9^. 



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