Mary, Queen of Scots. 



241 



Item ; if any person or persons inhabitants within the said shire shall wil- 

 fully refuse to pay and contribute towards these provisions of composition, which 

 shall be rated by the Justice of the Justices of the Peace of the said shire or 

 the moste parte of them, That then upon certificat therof to their hands, A 

 pursaphante [pursuivant or mes&enger~\ shal be sent downe to apprehend and 

 bring before their honors all such persons for refusing to answer their contempt. 



Item, it shall be lawful at any time thereafter for the said shire having shewed 

 this Composition aforesaid one whole year, to break the same at their pleasures 

 upon half a year's warning given from the Justices of Peace and Compounders 

 for the said shire unto the officers of her Ma tie ' s Green Cloth : and so likewise 

 on the behalf of her Ma tie . 



John Puckeringe. W. Btjbleigh, 



T. HUNSDON. T. BUCKHTJRSTE. 



Jo. FORTESCUE." 



5. Arrangement by the Justices of Peace. 

 " At the Devizes, 29 May 1594. 



It is agreed that for 200 lambes to be delivered at the Court on the 8th of 

 June next and 15 oxen to be delivered there the 1st of July next there shall be 

 levied within the Countie and paid at Erlestoke by the 26 June next £149 13 4 

 viz: for 200 lambs after 6 shillings the lambe, and for 15 oxen after the rate 

 of £7 the Oxe * to be levied after the rate the same way levied the last yere 

 viz : 



£ 8. d. 



Out of the Earle of Pembroke's Division 38 



Sir James Mervin's ditto 31 13 4 



„ Sir Walter Hungerford's 26 13 4 



„ Sir John Danvers's 28 6 8 



Sir Thomas Wroughton's 30 

 ,, Mr. Dauntsey's 25 

 James Mervin Wm. Brouncker Henrie Sadler 

 Henry Martin John Warneford John Daunsey. 

 At this our meeting at the Devizes this 29th May 1594 It is agreed that 

 forasmuch as there comes no. warning in due tyme gyven nor other order agreed 

 on to the contrary, that we are to leavye within our division for lambes and our 

 part of fat oxen £31 13 4 which must be gathered and payd at Stoke to Sir 

 W m . Brouncker by the x th of June next. And hereof I pray you let the 

 Counstables of every hundred in our Division have notice by your precepts to 

 them, that money may be gathered and payed at the place aforesayd. 



Your very loving frend, 



James Mervin." 



VII. — Mary, Queen of Scots. Letter relating to her 

 Execution. 



The next document is a very remarkable one, on account of the 

 Memorandum endorsed upon it. A Commission addressed to 



• Prices were high in 1594. Owing to excessive transportation wheat was £2 16s. Od. the quarter 

 in London : and butter Id, the pound : " owing " (says Stow's Chronicle) " to our desorvings." 



