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Extracts from the Records of the 



doe me that faver as to plase this baer gafcr gafers [this bearer, Geoffrey 

 Jefferys] with some dromer's plase for he is a good dromer and have sarved in 

 ye low eountrye and Irlond and he have onest frendes her and he is a onest man, 

 I praye you .... my lordes letter for him in to the lowe contre for a 

 droiners plase and in so doing you shall inak me thankfull and so I lefe you. 

 from the Devises x of September 1604 your loving kinsman to his power Kobaet 

 Weight. 



" I praye you to geve him som presant while he is with you." 



On that same 10th of September Jefferys obtained from the Mayor 

 of Devizes a certificate to the effect that : — 



" Jeffery Jefferys a dromer the sonne of Eichard Jefferys of Southbrome neere 

 the Devizes . . . . lat abode in the said Devizes, and now w th the good will 

 of his said father is mynded to travell untyl he be settled w ch Jeffery have 

 used himself honestly and of good behavor as we are credybly informed and that 

 he is sounde from anie Infection of the Plaughe wherby his travell may be w th out 

 Indaungering of the King's Ma tics people and that he may be received w th out 

 anie doubt thereof." 



The certificate bears the Mayor's seal of office, and the signatures 

 of "John Perse, Mayor, John Drewe, Wyllam Weythers, Constabull." 



A census of pensioners chargeable to the north part of the county 

 is among the papers filed on the roll of the Easter Sessions, 1605 ; 

 whence it appears that : — 



1 pensioner was receiving £8 per annum. 



1 3j i} £6 135. 4d., reduced from an original 



grant of £13 6s. $d. 

 1 }J „ £6 3s. 4^., abated from £20. 



8 „ ,y £5. 



3 3} „ £4, two of these abated from £5. 



1 „ „ £3 6s. Sd. 



1 „ „ £3, abated from £5. 



2 „ „ £2, abated from £3 6s. M. 

 1 „ £1 13s. 4^. 



1 " abated quite because lewde and not maymed." 



The plague of which the Mayor of Devizes speaks had driven the 

 King from London to Wilton, and had not spared the towns of 

 Wiltshire. Salisbury suffered severely ; the table of burials in the 



