Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 



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and call before them the borderers and comoners in the same wood and thereupon 

 to sever devide and laye forthe suche fourthe part of the same wood to be enclosed 

 sold and felled by the lords or owners of the sale of the same wood accordinge to 

 the statute of xxxv H 8 and further to doe and execute such thinge and things 

 as by the said Statute or otherwise they are auctorised to doe conc r ninge the 

 p r mises And of there doings therein shall certifie this Court at the next Gen r all 

 Sessions of the Peace." 



The following entry, of earlier date, may possibly have reference 

 to the same statute. 



Epiphany, 21st Elizabeth : — 



" The Courte hath taken this order that all the grounds in Lydyard that have 

 ben staked and markyd out by Fardinando Malyn William Garrerd and Adryan 

 Fry shall remayne in state as now it is untyll the next assyses." 



XV I. — Restitution. 



Statutes of the reigns o£ Henry VI. and Henry VIII. had 

 conferred on the magistracy certain summary powers of restitution 

 affecting either land or chattels, which had been forcibly seized or 

 wrongfully detained. The pages of the Elizabethan Minutes bear fre- 

 quent entries of the issue of writs of restitution, and in one of these, 

 Robert (Home) Bishop of Winchester, is involved, but whether as a 

 litigant or a justice is not apparent. These entries are for the most 

 part meagre enough, but in a few instances some narrative of the 

 transaction is vouchsafed. 



One of these might well relate to the partial surrender of the farm 

 house on a change of tenancy. 



Michaelmas, 27th Elizabeth : — 



" Md it is ordered by the Courte that the possession of the hall and the roomes 

 within the Ferme house of Collingbourne now in question shalbe redely vered to 

 Richard Money according as Mr. Willm Danny ell Esquire founde it." 



Michaelmas, 30th Elizabeth : — 



"At this Sessions restitution is granted by the Courte. And Mr. Hourde 

 (Howard) a counseller at law with the .... [hiatus] .... that 

 Mrs. Long shall have free egresse and regresse to bear and carry away her goods 

 betwixt this and mydsomer next viz Corne and Hey. And her household stuffe 

 within one moneth after this Sessions. And it is desyred by the said Courte 

 that Mr. Michaell Earnley and Mr. Edward Hungerford Esquires be present at 



