ORDERS SET DOWNE 



THE 28 OF JUNE 1609 BY SIR MILES SANDYS, 



SIR RICHARD COX KNIGHTS AND JEAMES TAYLOR 



DOCTOR OF DIUINITIE FOR THE INHABIT ANTES OF 



STRETHAM WITHIN THE ILE OF ELIE AND COUNTIE 



OF CAMBRIDG CONCERNING THE VSAGE OF 



THEIR COMMON IN STALLOCK AND HAY- 



FENN WITH THEIR WORKEING HORSES 



AND WORKEING MARES BY VERTUE 



OF A COMMISSION TO VS AND 



OTHERS DIRECTED OUT OF 



HIS MAIESTIES COURT 



OF EXCHEQUER FOR 



THAT PURPOSE. 1 



First it is ordered by the sayd Commisioners that the sayd 5- workeing 

 inhabitants within the towne of Stretham or the precincts thereof ^f* ^ 

 haueing anie auncient commonable messuage or Tenement shall auncient 

 and may, by right of his or hir sayd messuage or Tenement, yearlie ho^sT"^ 16 

 depasture in the sayd Commons fiue workeing horses or mares 

 with their foales, soe they bee of his or hir owne proper goods and 

 at such times of the yeer onelie as hee or shee of right beefore 

 this order might haue done, for the bringing home of fother and 

 turffs for his or hir provision. 



Item, it shalbee lawfull for anie of the said inhabitants, haueing 6. horses for 

 an auncient Commonable messuage or tenement as is aforesaid ^ ac 

 wherewith hee or shee vseth in tillage within the Mannor of 

 Stretham to the number of fifteen acres or vnder, to depasture one 



1 No doubt this Commission was the result of the complaint made by Michael 

 Fludd and Thomas Frankham, 25 May 1609, as to the insufficient number of 

 working horses allowed to be fed on the Commons. See p. 260. 



