The Orders of Shrewton. 33 



Edmunde Ludlowe [Hill Deverill] the 7 May 25 



John Cornall [? Cornwall, of Marlborough] the 10 May 25 



Sir Edward Baynton [Bromham] the 11 May 25 



Thomas Wallys [? Trowbridge] the 12 May 25 



Dame Jane Brydges [Ludgershall] the 19 May 25 



Henry White [? Charlton] the 25 May 25 



Anthony Geeringe [Sherston-Pinkney] the 14 May 25 



William Lea [_? Leigh] the 25 May 25 



June. Thomas Walton the 4 June 25 



Nicholas Downe the 8 June 25 



William Darell [" Wild Darell," of Littlecote] the 12 June 50 



Peter Polden the 14 June 25 



William Noyes the 15 June 25 



Eichard Lavington [? Wilsford] the same day 25 



John Streete the 15 June 25 

 George Farewell [? Farewell, of Holbrook, Co. Som., Mar. into 



Horton fam] the 22 June 25 



July. Sir John Danvers [Dauntsey] the 1 July 50 



November. John Harding [? Pewsey] the 12 Nov. 25 



William Brouncker [of Melksham] the same day 25 



Communicated by the Rev. Canon Bennett. 



VERY interesting agreement of the freeholders, tenants, and 

 commoners of the parish of Shrewton, dated 9th March,, 

 1599, is engrossed in the oldest register of the Church. 1 It consists 

 of seventeen orders, which are subscribed by the landowners, the 

 vicar, and other parishioners. They were drawn up and agreed to 



1 This register book consists of thirty leaves of parchment stitched into a cover 

 made from a part of a deed of " . . . . year of our Soveraigne Lord Charles 

 y e Second." It is lO^in. high X 5^in. wide. The first and last leaves are 

 imperfect, and the whole book has suffered a good deal from damp and mildew. 

 Births, deaths, and marriages are entered in order as they took place under each 

 year from 1557 to 1649— when it appears to have been left in the charge of 

 Eobert Wansbrough, the churchwarden, in whose family it remained till Easter, 

 1860, when it was very gracefully restored to the Church, with the following 

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