Wiltshire Quarter Sessions. 



5 



" 4. Itm That there be sent to the Thres of the maimed soldiers a Taxe of ev'y 

 p'ishe w th in ev'y sev'all divizion after the rate of iiij d a p'ishe as was agreed at 

 the last Quarter Sessions at Easter and the arrerages to be p'sently levyed and 

 payed. 



" 5. Itm That all Lycences to be graunted to shoot in a Hand Gunn or Bird- 

 inge Pieces accordinge to the last statute for Hawkes-meate shall be graunted in 

 open sessions and not to continue above one yeere. 



" 6. Itm That no such Licence be granted to any unlesse he shall bringe a 

 certificate under the hand and seale of some Justice of the Peace of that Divizion 

 wherein he dwelleth of his abilitye honestie and fitnes to have such Licences. 



" 7. Itm if anyone havinge such Lycens shall hereafter shoote at any other 

 foule or otherwise contrary to the statute in that behalfe made shalbe disabled to 

 have any such Lycence received at any time then after. 



"Jhon Htjngeefobde La Hyde 



" Heney Maetyn G Tookeb." 



Specially does the court seem to have been occupied with the case 

 of one Richard Sumner, a pertinacious person, who had no mind to 

 be satisfied with the frugal alms doled out to him by the county 

 almoner. His " patent " is found on the roll of the Michaelmas 

 Sessions, 1605, and runs as follows : — 



" Whereas yt appeareth by the certificat of Sr Erasmus Vere Knight that the 

 bearer hereof Richard Somner served as a gonn' in the service at Osteud and by 

 the noyse of the gonne shott is become so dephe that cannot heare as also maymed 

 that is not longer able to serve forasmuch as by reason thereof he_is to be releved 

 by vertue of the statut establyshed in the last Sessyon of Parliaint made for the 

 relyfe of hurt and maymed souldiers It is therefore not to be doubted but that 

 the Justices ot the peace and Treasorers for the County of Wiltes wher he was 

 imprest will have a care to see hem provided of such a yearly stipent for his 

 relief e and mayntenance as by the tenno r of the statut is ordayned to a servitor 

 of his place and quallyty. Prom Belsis this first of Pebruary 1605. 

 "To the Right Wo r the Justices 



of the Peace and others the Trers " W. Waad." * 



for the monie collected for the re- 

 lyfe of hurt and maymed souldiers 

 for the county of Wiltes." 



On this paper the treasurer makes the following 1 entries : — 



" Wyltes. Geven to the berer heroff the xxvij th of March 1605,f xij d . 



" Wyllm Ley." 



• No doubt the same Sir William Wade who, as Lieutenant of the Tower, made way for Sir 

 Gervase Elwes at the time of the Overbury murder, and who, justly or unjustly, fell under suspicion 

 of concocting evidence against .sir Walter Raleigh. He is also.relerred to as " Chief Muster-master. " 



t Like many a modern correspondent when the year has just turned, Mr. Ley, wrote at first IC04 

 and then coirected the last figure. 



