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relief of the prisoners in any hundred or de vision, shall be forthwith collected 

 and gathered and delivered to the collectors assigned for that purpose, who are to 

 yeild accoinpt to the justices of the peace, at the next Sessions. 



" And it is further ordered and agreed, that there shall be from hensforth 

 collected through oute the whole Shire the sum of xl 1 to be gathered by equall 

 consideration to be had what shall be gathered in every devision for the relief 

 of the said prysoners, wherein it is agreed that upon thappearance of the said 

 Churchwardens before the* said Justices in their devisions, they shall take a note 

 of all the parishes within their devision, and therin consider of the bygnes or 

 smallnes of their parishes and thereuppon at the next Sessions to agree upon a 

 Taxation what ev r y parish shall be taxed at and thereuppon take order for the 

 collection and payment thereof accordingly. 



"It is also agreed that the order taken for the gathering of iiij d of the pounde 

 of such as be sett at v 1 and upwards, and xl s in land, shall contynue and that 

 the said collections be made and the money answered by the constables of evy 

 hundred within evy devision, at the next Sessions of the peace, where further 

 order shall be taken for the obtayning and making of a house of correction for 

 vagabonndes and Eoges, and in the meantime It is agreed that a Letter be 

 directed unto my L. Treasurer to be a mean to Her M tie for the obtaining of 

 a piece of the Castell of the Devizes, where the said house is thought fittest to be. 



" And it is agreed that Sir John Dan vers shall have the carryeing of the said 

 letters and solyciting of this cause unto his Lordshipp, and if any charges shalbe 

 by him layde oute in this behalf, the same shalbe borne and discharged by the 

 subjects of this County by the taxation of the Justices of this County." 



Hilary, 21st Elizabeth :— 



" First it is agreed that Mr. George Burly and Mr. John Trew who are 

 appointed at the Quarter Sessions holden next after Easter, shall forthwith take 

 upon them the execution of their offices according to the statute for that purpose 

 made in Anno ix., of the Queenes majesty, and that they shall disburse and lay 

 out such sums of money either for the purchasing of the house of correction and 

 for making of such convenient rooms, providing of such stocks and stores and 

 provisions for correction, as by the consideration and appointment of Sir John 

 Danvers, Sir Edward Baynton, Knights, William Brouncker, and Michaell 

 Earnly, Esquires, four Justices of the peace of this County, or by any two of 

 them, shall be from time to time thought meet and convenient, which said Justices 

 are now agreed upon and desired to take the whole care and consideration of the 

 provision and ordering of the said house of correction, and of and for the pro- 

 vision for such other Officers Keepers and purposes to be put in use and 

 done agreeable to the said statute which said Justices shall and may also from 

 time to time upon their warrant take and receive for and towards the purposes 

 aforesaid of Mr. John Vennard such sums of money as they shall think meet. 



" Item it is further now ordered and agreed that such hundreds as have not 

 at this time paid in unto Mr. Vennard the sums of money wherewith the persons 

 therein inhabiting are charged to pay after the rate of /4 d the pound from £5 

 upwards in goods and 40 s / in land that the Constables of the same hundreds shall 

 collect gather and make payment thereof unto the said Mr. Vennard at or before 

 the Feast of the purification of Our Lady next as they will answer to the contrary 

 at their perils." 



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