192 SILK DEESSBS IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. 



And that tlie wyffe of Jolm Trelawny, esquier, hath, sins the 

 said day woren a gowne of sylke and hath a trottin g gelding w"' 

 armor & fiurnyture ffor the same. 



And that the wyffe of John Arrvndell of Treryse, esquier, hath 

 sins the said day woren a gown of Sylke, and hath a trotting 

 gelding w*'' armor & ffurnyture ffor the same. 



And allso that the wyffe of John Bevy 11, esquier, hath sins 

 the said day woren a gowne of Sylke, and hath a trotting gelding 

 w**" armor and ffurnyture for the same. In wytnes whereof as 

 well the said coniission's as the said jurers to this p'sent 

 Inquisicon hath put to there Seales Yeven the day and year 

 above wryten. 



^Signedi^ John Teelawny. John Reskym'. 



Henet Chyv'ton."* 



The foregoing inquisition was taken in pursuance of an Act 

 of Parliament passed in the 4*'' & 5*^ year of Philip & Mary, 

 entitled: "An acte for the having of Horse Armour and weapons,"! 

 in order to ascertain the names of those who were bound to keep 

 one great trotting horse by reason of their wives wearing 

 certain kinds of apparel and jewellery, in compliance with an 

 act passed in the 33'^'^ year of Henry YIII. By this Act it was 

 enacted that the nobility should keep a certain number of 

 trotting horses according to their rank, for defence of the realm, 

 &ic., and that every spiritual person under the degree of a 

 bishop having benefices worth £100 and not worth 500 marks, 

 and every other temporal person "whos wiff after the feast of 

 Saint Michaell tharchaungell next hereafter mentioned in this 

 Acte [i.e. 1545] shall were any goun of sylke or whos wiff shall 

 were any Frenche hood or bonnet of Yelvett, w* any habiliment 

 past or egge [edge] of gold, perle or stone, or any chayne of 

 gold about their nekkes or in their partletts, or in any apparell 

 of their bodie" should keep and maintain one trotting horse for 

 the saddle under the penalty of forfeiting every time of non- 

 compliance £10. 1 



* Statutes oftlie Realm, Vol. iv. pt. i., p. 316. 



f Exchequer, Special Commissions, Cornwall, 4 Eliz. No. 512. 



X Statutes of the Realm, Vol. iii. p. 830. 



