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Courts there, is nowe neglected (by reason that the right hono ble William Lo 

 Pembrooke hath assigned the same office to S 1 James Fullerton Knight,) Theis 

 are therefore to appoint and aucthorise yow William Whittaker esquier foorthw th 

 to keepe such Courts for his Mat 8 service w th in the said Manno r and hundred as 

 heretofore hath bin usuell, and soe from tyrae to tyme hereafter untill further 

 order shalbe taken therein. Peceavinge suche yearelie allowance and fees as 

 hath heretofore bin incident and belonginge to the said office, And in soe doinge 

 this shalbe your warr*. From Readinge this 24 November 1625. 



" Yo 1 verie loveinge Freinds 

 " To our verie lovinge freinde (signed) Tho. Savage 

 William Whittaker, Esq r . Henry Hobarte 



Jo. Walter Ja. Fullerton. 



Tho Trevor 



Wal. Pye" 



Warrant and Survey in 1650. 

 [From Hoare's Modern Wilts, Hund. of Mere, p. 142.] 

 The following warrant was issued to the Bailiff of Mere during 

 the Commonwealth : — 



" By virtue of a Commission to us directed from the Trustees authorised by 

 the Commons of England assembled in Parliament for the Sale of Hundreds, 

 Manors and Lands heretofore belonging to the late King, Queen and Prince in 

 pursuance of the said Act. Wee doe hereby require you the Bailiffe of this 

 Mannor to sum'on and warn 24 of the ablest Tennants of the said Mannor to 

 appear before us at a Court of Survey to be holden upon Tuesday, the 25th of 

 this present month, by 9 o'clock in the forenoon at the usual Court House, then 

 and there to receive such further order and direction as shall be thought fit in 

 that behalfe. 



" Hereof you are not to fail. 



"Given under our hands and seals the 20th day of June 1650. 



" Hercules Langrig 

 "William Exbery 

 " John Fisk." 



" To William Baron, Bayliffe of the Manor abovesaid, as to his Deputy. These." 



1650. October 4th. A Survey of the Hundred of Mere, late 



parcel of the possessions of Charles Stewart, Prince of Wales, as of 



the Duchy of Cornwall : — 



" All the hundred court and bailey wick, with rents, profits commodities &c. 

 value commtinihus annis £16. leases under the seal of the Duchy to Thomas 

 Fisher, ex'or of Thomas Carey esq 1 dec'd which Mr. Fisher has appointed Rich d . 

 Greene gent to be Steward, and Willni Baron gent to be bailiff of the same 

 hundred. Presented— that the appointments are void, as the letters patent were 

 granted since March 20, 1611." 



Note. — This survey is very long; it gives the names of the 



