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Extracts from the Records of the 



" When the Queene's Matie removed from Thruxon to Sarum fower in the 

 parish of Boscombe were then charged with a cart. 



"The said Edward Clifford and Thomas Day .... being the second 

 time charged with a Cart and Knowinge their horses not able to serve .... 

 went unto Morse the carier of Sarum and offered him 4 s a hundred to carie the 

 Loade wherewith they were charged w ch , being of 12 hundred wayte or there- 

 abouts amounted to 48 s for the payment whereof Mr. John Bay lie of Sarisburie 

 gent gave his word the said Mr. Clifford and Thomas Day being unknowne to 

 the said Morse. And yet nevertheless by the malice (as they supposed) of the 

 said Batchelour or the forenamed Kent [one of the constables of the Hundred of 

 Amesbury] the wagon was refused although the verie next day followinge the 

 self e same wagon was hired for the same cariadge by him that refused it the day 

 before. 



" And lastlie they the said M r Edward Clifford and Thomas Daye informe 

 that the said Batchelour did forbeare to chardge teemes of horses that were 

 strong and well able to do doe his matie service and did take heere a horse and 

 there a jade of severall mens that were unable to dischardge the service either 

 for age or lamenesse." 



Examples have occurred in the foregoing extracts of the "re- 

 proachful speeches " from which even the clergy did not escape. 

 But they had plenty of companions in misfortune, and that among 

 persons of high position. The King himself was not spared. The 

 extravagant expectations which had arisen of his wisdom and virtues 

 gave way to a corresponding sense of disappointment, when it was 

 discovered that after all he was as other men are. Some such 

 feeling found expression at the lips of Mrs. Catharine Gawen of 

 Norrington, who at the Easter Sessions 1606, was indicted for 

 saying :— 



"jt rejoyced muche at the King's cominge to the Crowne (felicissimam intra- 

 conem ad jus tarn and indubitatf possessionem' et inheritanc' dci dni Regis 

 nunc ad coronam hujus regni Anglie) and I have bestowed muche charges in 

 bonefires and otherwise to shewe my joye at his coming but yt is a Kinge indeed 

 as good as noe Kinge." 



But Mistress Gawen was plainly a querulous and discontented 

 person. " The answer of Katherine Noke," filed at the Hilary 

 Sessions, 1605-6, upon which the foregoing indictment was founded, 

 went on to say : — 



" She saieth that M™ Gawen hath spoken many vile and unseemely words of 

 the late Queene Elizabeth w ch in p'ticular she remembereth not. 



