Facte relating to Marlborough 



ingrossers and rogrators, unloss they were licensed by the magis- 

 trates at the Quarter Sessions. On this subject the Corporation 

 hooks at Marlborough contain the following- entries: — 



"XXX th of Aprill A". XXXIX" Elizabeth &e. At the quarter sessions 

 holden at tho Devizes, the daio aud yere above written, W m . Brouncl or 

 Etiohard Modie and W m . Rede, Esquires, have licensed Rob te . Miller of 

 Sfalmeibury, to be a badgar i'or one whole yere according to the fourme of the 

 statutes A". 6th. KHz. 



" 6 1 '. die Mar. A". Dmi. 1587. Md that this daie Edward White of Brinke- 

 wothe in the county of Wilts .Baker is licensed by W m . Daniell, Esquire, and 

 Bioharde Hearsto, Maio r of this boroughe, to buy in this markett wekely, untill 

 tho next quarter sessions to be holden, a large iiij bz. (bushels) of Wheate and 

 six busshells of Barlie." 



" XII 0 . die Januarii A 0 . XXIX° Elizabeth Reg. At the Sessions holden at 

 Newe Sar., Gyles Escourte, Jasper More, and Thomas Mompesson, Esquires, have 

 licensed Gyles Masemore of Eastcott, in co uy . Wilts, laborer, to be a badger of 

 corne, graine, butter and cheese, as is above mencioned." 



"I n the XXVI th of Aprill Anno sup a diet — Thomas Watton, John Warnaforde 

 and Richard Mody, Esquiers, have licensed John Lovelock of Pirton to be a 

 badger w th iij horses for xj bushells of barley, wekeley at Highworthe, 

 Marlebroughe and Wotton Basset, and to be solde in Malmesbury Markett." 



The Inns. 



The Castle was opened as an Inn in 1752, the Angel was an Inn 

 in 1548 1 . 



The following Advertisement appeared in the Salisbury Journal, 

 and Devizes Mercury, of Monday, Aug. 17th, 1752, printed by 

 Benjamin Collins, on the New Canal at Salisbury, and also published 

 by T. Burrough, Bookseller in Devizes. 



' ' I beg leave to inform the publick, that I have fitted up the Castle at 

 Marlborough in the most genteel and commodious manner, and opened it as an 

 Inn, where the Nobility, Gentry, &c., may depend on the best accommodation 

 and Treatment. The Favour of whose Company will be always greatefully 

 acknowledged by 



Their most obedient Servant, 



Geoege Smith, 

 late of the Artillery- Ground, London. 

 * # *.Neat Post-Chaises. " 



The Stage Coaches, 

 The following advertisement of a Coach proprietor, appears in the 

 Commonwealth Mercury, for the week commencing 18 Nov, 1658. 



1 See ante, p. 5. 



