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" Item putant qd~Matthew Allen erexit unum le ffurse reeke in terra sua 

 ppe vicum et pcepFest ei amovere idem le ffurse ryke, &c 



"Item putant qdRicus Brooke subversit regia via Anglice hath torne down 

 the highwaye in vico vocat St. Nicholas Street etposuit ibm qucedam lez stakes 

 ad magnu piculu homin et equor eandem viam trans, &c. 



"Item, &c., qd Wiiius Bondfield posuit pisces suos et fecit forreg (?) pp 

 adiacent doms Robti White fratris sui que mult nocent dom ipsiusRobti White 

 ad admod mala funigatone Anglice with a very ill stincke, &c." 



Item, &c., qd Johes Pitt posiut Novem le Milstones super le Townne ground 



et Barnardus Mechell posuit ibm dua__Tormenta Anglice two peeces of 



ordinance et Lucus Edwards posuit ibm unum le Boate ad commune 



nocumentum, &c. 



Item, &c., Barnardus Michel posuit quatuor Tormenta Anglice three peeces 



of ordinance and one Murderer super, &c. " 



" Item~qcf omnes Inhabitantes in le hope a domo Kici Martin usque domum 

 Johis Case ejicere consueverunt le sweepings et alia le ffilth domor suor 

 portu et superin hoc &c." 



Entries such as these, many of them too coarse for insertion, abound in 

 these documents. 



The long accounts in English of the examination of persons suspected of 

 Popery, Treason, &c., or concerned in Broils, Roysterings, Gaming, &c., are 

 very amusing, and afford a correct and minutely finished picture of the life of 

 the Burgesses of Weymouth during the reigns of James 1st, Charles 1st, the 

 Commonwealth, and Charles 2nd, They would perhaps furnish materials 

 for a future paper. 



