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things it is easy to finde even by the trial of the eie. As for mine own© poore 

 parte, it wilbe sutchc annoiance unto me, beinge placed within one fiighte- 

 shoote of my house, and directely be-fore my studie, and chamber windowe, 

 that this yo r determination takinge place, I mustc needes be forced to seeke 

 somme other lodginge, havinge none other house of mine owne in al the world. 

 Whiche injurie I am wel assured, it was never yo r minde to seeke againste me. 



Theise therefore maie be moste hartily to desire yo u to have sutche consider- 

 ation herein, as I of my parte would have, if the case touched yo w or any of 

 yours. And leste yo u should thinke, there is none other place conveniente for 

 that purpose to be had, but onely that of Harnham, I wil take upon me pre- 

 sently to deale for an other place in Fisherton, sutche as I doubte not, but yo u 

 yourselves in yo r owne judgementes, and in al respectes wil thinke to be many 

 waies more conveniente, then the other, wherof within theise three daies, God 

 willinge, I wil doo you to understande. 



In consideration of theise causes, most hartily desiringe yo u to staie yo r for- 

 mer determination, and to weigh my case by yo r owne, I take my leave and bid 

 yo u moste hartily wel to fare. From Sarum ii Janrii. 1568. 



"Yo r poore frende 



"Jo: Sabum." 



(Addressed) 



" To the right wooshipful, and my very 

 lovinge frendes Sir John Zouche, Sir John 

 Thynne, Sir Walter Hungerforde,Knightes: 

 and to the reste of the Justices of the 

 peace within the Countie of Wilteshire, 

 and to every of them." 



Fisherton, on another side of Salisbury, but so close to the city 

 as to be in fact a part of it, was then chosen. The magistrates 

 deputed two of their number to manage the business, one of whom 

 was Christopher Willoughby, Esq., of Knoyle, and the other Sir 

 John Thynne, the builder of Longleat. 



For a piece of ground at Fisherton £150 was to be given to 

 Mr. A'barowe. In those days there were six divisions of the 

 county, and the magistrates of each division undertook to raise in 

 each a certain sum ranging from £160 to £80. Before taxing the 

 rest of the community the worthy magistrates set a laudable exam- 

 ple by taxing themselves, in different sums from £10 downwards, 

 according to tbe real or presumed length of their several purses. 



The first Fisherton Gaol was 53 feet long by 28 feet broad. 

 There was an upper story, a woman's prison, and a keeper's house 

 adjoining : the walls of the gaol 23 feet high : the inner walls of 

 the convicts' department of burr-stone without any ashlar: seven I 



