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others, whoe answered hee cared not for S r Gyles Wroughton and that hee was 

 as good a man as S r Gyles Wroughton and y e said Inland replyed and told him 

 hee had much forgotten himself and told him hee was a gent of wor 1 ' and one of 

 the Kings Justices, and the said Dismere very audaciously replyed he cared not, 

 he was but a man, and cared not for him. 



" Upon Trinity Sonday last past Thomas Smith of Orston .... Taylor 

 and .Robert Pope .... yeomen beingc in the howse of John Messum 

 . . . towards the eveninge and chaunceinge to come into the company of 

 Edward Dismere .... they heard the said Dismere boast and say hee 

 was as good a man as S 1 ' Gyles Wroughton and said yf hee had mett him in the 

 feilde he thought (in his conscience) he should be the better man." 



Trinity, 1606 :— 



" Immediately after S te Peeter's day beinge fayer at Marleboroughe at the 

 signe of the Harte there in the afternoon of the same day .... Edward 

 Dysmer sayde be would never submitt himself to S 1 Gyles Wroughton whiles he 

 lyved .... and further replied he was a better man in the field than S r 

 Gyles was / and lastly sayd S r Gyles Wroughton was p'jured." 



This was rather more than his worship felt called upon to endure 

 patiently : he states his case in ths following letter to the bench of 

 magistrates who were keeping sessions at Warminster from the 8th 

 to the 17th of July, 1606:— 



" I am sorrye I am not able to travell to meete yo u at this Sessions by reason of 

 late siclmes I have bene visited w th all especially because in former tyme I have 

 bene abused by a lewde stubborne fellow one Dysmer whoe have therefore beene 

 bounde to the good behaviour two or three sessions And whereas y* was ordered 

 at the last Q r ter Sessions he should come and submytt himself unto me I 

 acknowledg his submission and as I thought in my judgement to be vearye 

 penitent and doubted not but his reformacon had beene in honest meaninge But 

 I am veary credybly informed ytt fallethe out otherwise As my man will showe 

 you a Copye thereof In what most wilde sorte he continueth abusinge mee still. 

 I p'test unto you all uppon my creditt I forgive him w th my hart. And nev' 

 did p'secute any matter against him in mallice But onely that such a paltrye 

 fellow as he should better know himself And I woulde therefore desier you all 

 to consider of the newe abuse he hath donne me and to deale w th him in equyty 

 and justice in my absence as you would I should doe y e lyke for anye of you in 

 the lyke case That hee maye remayne to the good behaviour untill I have 

 further speeche w th - him Soe nothinge doubtinge of you r love herein with my 

 veary kinde salutacons I rest 



"you r assured and lovinge frinde 



"Gyles Wroughton." 



" Broadhenton the xvj th of July 1606." 



" To my veary lovinge frindes S r Jasp' Moore S r Willm Eyre S r Walter Longe 

 S r Alexander Tutt Knights and Lawrence Hyde Esqre w th the rest of my fellow 

 Justices geve these." 



