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extracts 1 front % jjwwfoj of if* ISiltepra 



Communicated by R. W. Meeeiman, Clerk of the Peace. 



REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. 



Table of Extracts and Notes. 



I. Minute Books and Great 

 Rolls. 



II. Court Towns and acting 

 Justices. 



III. Badgers. 



IV. Tippling-houses and Tav- 



erns. 



V. Unlawful Games. 

 VI. Trespass in Pursuit of 

 Game. 



VII. Restraints on handicrafts. 



VIII. Apprenticeship. 

 IX. Relief of the Poor. 



X. Vagrancy. 

 XI. Gaols and Houses of Cor- 

 rection. 



XII. County Rates. 



XIII. Highways and Bridges. 



XIV. [Dwellings of the Poor. 

 XV. Woods. 



XV L Restitution. 

 XVII. Matters Imperial. 

 XVIII. Transactions of a single 

 Sessions. 

 XIX. References to Justices 



out of Sessions. 

 XX. Criminal Jurisdiction. 

 XXI. Practice and Procedure. 

 XXII. Minor ^Transactions. — 

 Assizes. 



Appendices. 



I. — Minute Books and Great Rolls. 



Not in many counties are there still extant records of proceedings 

 at quarter sessions in regular continuity from the end of the six- 

 teenth century to the present day. The rarity of such a possession 

 is no matter for surprise. While the archives of a city or college 



1 These extracts are transcribed for publication under the express sanction of 

 The Earl of Kadnor, Custos Eotulorum of the county. They do not pretend to 

 deal adequately with the subject which they imperfectly illustrate : and have no 

 higher aim than to af£ ord examples of the sort of material which a reader might 

 expect to find to his hand in the records of the Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 



