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Longleat Papers, A.D. 1553—1588. 



and drawlatches, they shall cause the Officers to arestthem. 5 Edw. iij. c. 12. 



Item, you shall enquire of all trespasses committed against the Quene's 

 peace and of roysters and barretters, * and such as be not of good fame. 18 

 Edw. iij. c. 2. 



Item, whether every person chargeable by his lands, annuities, fees, goods, 

 or copyholds, have furniture of horses and geldings, Armour and weapons 

 according to the Statute. 4 and 5 Ph. and M. c. 2. 



Item, of such as after warning doth absent himself from musters, or doth 

 not bring his best furniture. 4 and 5 Ph. and M. c. 3. 



Item, whether any make arrow-heads and quarrells f and do not well boil, 

 braze and harden them with steel. 7 Hen. iv. c. 7. 



Item, whether men not decrepit, lame, or having other lawfull impediments, 

 being within the age of lx years, do use their bows to shoot, and whether men 

 children betwixt the age of vij years and xvij, and servants betwixt the age of 

 xvij and lx., have bows and use them, and what bows they have. 33 H. viij. 

 c. 9. 



Item, whether every Town and Parish have butts made and repaired. 33 

 H. viij. c. 94 



Item, whether the owner or chief keeper of every Fair or Market overt where 

 horses be sold do not appoint an open place for toll, and one to keep it from x 

 of the clocke in the forenoon untill sun-setting ; and whether any take toll at 

 other time than that, and whether the names of such as buy and sell and ex- 

 change be not entered and the marke of those horse beasts. 2 and 3 Ph. and 

 Ma. c. 7. 



Item, if any keep above the number of 2000 sheep after six score to the 

 hundred in any grounds occupied in farm, except such as be kept for mainten- 

 ance and expenses of household for one year. 25 H. viij. c. 13. § 



Item, of such as keep above the number of six score sheep upon pastures 

 meet for milch kyne, and doth not keep for every three score shere sheep one 

 milch cow and for every six score shere sheep doth not rear one calf yearly. 

 2 and 3 Ph. and Ma. c. 3. 13 Eliz. c. 25. 



Item, of those that kill or cause to be killed wainelings [i.e., weanlings'], 

 under the age of two years to sell. 24 H viij. c. 9. 



Item, of butchers that kill calves to be sold, calves betwixt the first of Jan- 

 uary and the first of May. 24 H. viij. c. 7. 



Ttem, of those that carry corn, butter, cheese, beer, wood or herriDg beyond 

 the seas. 1 and 2 Ph. and Ma. c. 5. 



• Barrators. From the French barrateur, a deceiver ; means a mover of suits, or one who by 

 false inventions takes and detains goods in distmbance of the peace. 



t Quarrells. Square-headed bolts, shot from cross-bows. 



t This was in order to revive the practice of archery, which was going to decay in consequence of 

 certain new games in fashion, viz., "Logetting in the fields, slide-thrift, otherwise called Shove- 

 groat." 



? By an ancient Statute no person was to keep at one time above 2000 sheep, on pain of 3s. 4<*. 

 per sheep above that number. At six score to the hundred, the full number allowed would b e 

 2400. This Statute had been enacted, to prevent the practice, then becoming common, of 

 turning tillage land to pasture, whereby prices of provisions had been raised, and the poor 

 driven to theft or starvation. Many persons had immense flocks of sheep up to 24,000. A sheep 

 that used to cost 2s. id., had risen at this time to 6s. Od. 



