By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq. 



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w th in written att the day & place w thin Conteyned allwritts of Assizes Jurats and 

 oeitific in my county Togeather w th the pannells Att :Uh Reatta* Sum Eesum and 

 all other helps the assizes Jul* 8 [Jurats] and Certif in any wise touchinge to come 

 I have caused before the aforesaid Justices att ye Gaole of ffisherton Anger the 

 prisoners in it beinge to deliver assigned at the day and place aforesaid beinge 

 W* their Attaehm ts and all other helps those prison" in any wise touchinge. 

 And from ye Venewe of Evry Toune and place where ye felonies (whereupon_the 

 same p'sons indicted appealed or arrested be) comitted were as well wit in Libties 

 As without xxiiij good and Legall men by whonie the truth of ye matter may be 

 better knowne and inquired, And whoe to those prison", are not at all allied 

 Togeather w th f oure men of the cheif e Towne or place to doe those things w ch then 

 and there to them of the ptee (parte or peace) of ye keepers of ye Libty wthin 

 named shalbe enjoyned. Publickly also I have caused to be proclaymed through 

 my whole shire that all those whosr will psecute ags* These prisonr 8 then they be 

 there ag st them (as just it shallbe) to psecute And alsoe I have caused to be 

 made knowne to the Justices of peace Coronrs Stewards Bayliffes of Libties and 

 Huddreds of ye county aforesaid that then they be there w th the Kolls Records 

 Indictments and other theire Remembrances to doe those offices w ch to them doe 

 apptaine 



" The residue of the Executon of this precept appeares in certaine Schedules and 

 pannell to the same annexed 



"Isaac Bueg-es Esq 

 Wiltes Sheriffe " 



The Commission of Assize. 



" The keepers of the Libty of England by Authority of Parliament To Richard 

 Newdegate one of the Judges of this Commonwealth, William Swanton, Alexander 

 Rolle, John Stevens, and Lawrence Swanton Greetinge Know yee that we have 

 constituted you some three and two of you whereof wee will that you the said 

 Richard Newdegate be one Justices to deliver the Gaole of the County of Wiltes 

 and the prisoners therein being And therefore wee comand you that at a cteyne 

 day w ch yee some three or two of you whereof we will that [you? the] said Richard 

 Newdegate be one shall appoint on this behalf e yee meet at New Sarum to deliver 

 that Gaole doeinge this [as to ?] Justice doth apperteyne according to the law 

 and custome of England saving to us the Amriaments [amerciaments] and other 

 things thereof and [thereunto] belonging, ffor we have comanded the Sheriffe 

 of the said County of Wiltes that at the cteyne day w ch yee some three or two 

 [of you] whereof wee will that you the said Richard Newdegate be one shall 

 make knowne to him hee shall cause all the prisoners in the said Gaole [with] 

 their attachm ts there to come before you some three or two of you whereof wee 

 will that you the said Richard Newdegate be one In Witness whereof wee have 

 caused these our Lrts [Letters] to be made Patent Witness ourselves at Westm' in 

 the three and twentieth day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand six 

 hundred fifty nyne." 



Signature, or signatures, cut off. 



Sir Richard Newdegate went summer circuit in the west, 1659 — 



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