Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 



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to the Mayor of the Devizes afores d weekly the some of xl s . and to the Maior of 

 the Borough of Maryborough afores d . weekly the some of xl s . and to the Constable 

 Churchwardens and overseers of the poore of the p'ishe of Fisherton Anger 

 aforesaid for the behoofe of the poore people of the s d p'ishe weekely xxx s . 



"And it is further ordered that yf there be not alredy convenient p' vision 

 made for the poore people infected w th in the Borough of Calne then the Justices 

 for that division shall and may alow such further and reasonable alowaunce for 

 their better reliefe as to their good discrecons shall seeme fit to continue as afores d . 



"Heney Saktj E Ludlowe Wa Vaughan 



"James Meevin Edw Peneuddok 



"Gyles Weoughton Laueence Hyde 



"Heney Maetyn 



"Alexandee Tutt." 



Trinity, 1604 [order here reproduced m facsimile] : — 



" We think ytt fitt there be payd weekely to the Overseers of the poore there 

 {South Newton] by Mr Smyth Tresorer of the Marshalsye soe longe as the 

 infecon remaynes in the said towne the some of tenne shillings the like for 

 Fisherton, Compton Chamberlayne, and Mylford 



" E Ltjdlowe 



"James Meevin Wa: Vaughan Edw Peneuddok." 



But, as before noted, between the Trinity and Michaelmas Sessions, 

 1604, the death-rate in Salisbury had risen alarmingly, and on the 

 4th October the court made special arrangements for the relief of 

 the city : — 



" Articles agreed on at the Quarter Sessions at Marleboroughe for the 

 relief of the Cittie of New SaTu and of the p'sons therein infected 

 w th the sicknes. The fowerth of October 1604. 



" Firste it is agreed That there shalbe weekelie levied out of the countie in 

 manner and forme hereafter followinge the weeklie some of Twentie Seaven 

 pounds and fower shillinges The same to contynue so longe and untill the 

 justices of peace shall think the citizens and inhabitants wthin five myles shalbe 

 founde able to supplie the chardge thereof. 



" The said some to be levied of the Inhabitants of ev'y sevall division and to 

 be p'porconed by the Justices of peace of ev'y division or the more pte of them 

 for soe muche as hereafter shalbe appointed to ev'y such sev'all division. 



" That wthin Saru there be raised thereof weeklie fower pounds That w'hin the 

 the five myles of Saru there be raised weekelie fower pounds and that in the 

 residewe of the Earle of Pembrook's devision there shalbe weekely levied the 

 some of fower poundes In the Earle of Hertfords devision the weekely some of 

 three pounds and fower shillings In the Lo Chief Justice his division the 

 weeklie some of three pounds and fower shillings In Sir James Marvins division 

 the weeklie some of Three pounds and twelve shillings In Sir Walter Long's 



