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Extracts from the Records of the 



Ephiphany, 20th Elizabeth : — 



" It is orderyed at this Courte, that John Mogaridge, of Alderbury, in com 4 

 Wiltes, gent, and Gyles Awsten, of Fysherton Anger, gent, are appointed dis- 

 tributors of the money collectyd for the relief of the prisoners committed to 

 Fisherton Anger. 



In the next, the scheme for providing a house of correction begins 

 to take form. 



Trinity, 20th Elizabeth : — 



u Inp T imis yt is ordered and agreed that ij d of evy p r she shalbe by the 

 constables of ev r y hundred weekly gathered and levied from the Feast of S* 

 Michaell tharchangell wch was in the yere of O r Lord God, 1577, untill the Feast of 

 S l Michaell, tharchangell next. And the same money soe gathered for asmuch as 

 resteth behinde, and not yett gathered, to be w tb all convenient speede collected 

 and deliv r d to the collectors for the relief of the pson's and for the resydew here- 

 after to be dewe, to be collected and alsoe answered monethlye unto the said 

 collectors untill the said Feast. And for such as have payed for any pte of the 

 yeare of A 0 1576, to be discharged for payment or collection of soe much in this 

 yere as the sume soe collected in A 0 1 57 6, amounteth unto. And yt is also 

 ordered and agreed that the Justices of the peace of ev r y divysion w i,; hin this 

 shyre shall forthw th delyver the bokes of the subsydye to the constables of ev r y 

 hundred whoe thereuppon shall forthw th collect and gather of ev r y pson being 

 sett att v 1 in goods and uppwards, and at xl s in land and soe uppwards, iiij d of 

 ev r y pounde for and toward the p r vysion of a house of correccion for vaccabonndes 

 and idle people within this countie, wch money being gathered shalbe by the 

 constables of ev r y hundred throughe oute this whole countie brought to the next 

 Sessions of the Peace, tobeholden within this countye, there to be payed and 

 delyvred as by the discretion of the said Justices of the Peace, or the more pte 

 of them, being there p r sent shalbe thought meete and convenient for and toward 

 the purpose aforesaid. 



" For the better relief e of wch pson r s and to thentent that those should be relyved 

 that are sent to the gayle that have noe habylytie or relief of themselves. That 

 ev r y justice of the peace within ev r y devysyon shall uppon the sending of any 

 vacabonnde or other p r soner to the gayle ex e [examine] the habylytie of the same 

 ptie. And thereppon yf they shall finde that the same pson have any habytylie 

 to relyeve himself, that then they shall take order for the sending of the same 

 pson's relief e of his goods monthly by the communicon of the constable of ev r y 

 such hundred. And also that ev r y of the same Justices shall make a note in the 

 booke of his Mythym 8 [mittimus] to this effect, that is to say this pson hath habylity 

 to be relyveed of his own goods and otherwise to certyfie for how long time his 

 goods will serve toe relyve him. And then theruppon ev r y such pson soe certified 

 to have habylitie to have noe reliefe of the money collected for the p r son r s as 

 aforesaid." 



In the next the site of the new building is all but settled. 

 Michaelmas, 20th Elizabeth : — 



" Itm it is ordered and agreed that such collections as be behynde for the 



