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Extracts from the Records oj the 



" The said Alice even lately before hir apprehension did threaten a . . . . 

 woman the wife of one Light dwelling in hir mothers house .... that 

 she wold see hir hart blood testified by the woman hir self. 



"And finally the said Alice Glover is not onely a disorderly p'son hir self but 

 hath also disordered hir sisters whereof one was hanged for fellony, the other 

 p'tly by hir p'suasions and threatnings is coming apace after hir other sister if 

 she be not cutt of from hir company And the said Alice is an unquiet p son 

 both in the house of hir owne mother and also in the towne of Tinhead where 

 she liveth Insomuch that all of ns shall think o r selves very much beholden to 

 yo r wor 1 * 8 and the rest of his ma ties Justices if we may obtaine that favo' at yo r 

 hands that the said Alice may be condignely punished for hir said misbehaviors 

 so farre forth as shall seeme best unto yo r wisdomes as long untill the said p'te 

 be better reformed (yf God please) And in so doing you shall bind us the 

 inhabitants of Tinhead and Edington aforesaid ever to be thankful to yo r wor ps 

 and to pra} r to God for yo r just and good p'ceedings. From Edington this ix th 

 daie of January A 0 1603." 



[Twelve signatures. J 



Extravagance, whether in amusement or dress, soon caught the 

 eye of the local censors. 



At the Trinity Session, 1607, the hundred of Warminster presents 



" Xrofer Ludburie for keping unfawfull play .... namely at Kayets 

 [quoits'] being unlawfull persons and poore men that played at it." 



From another deponent on another occasion comes the information 

 that 



"Further the said Palmer hath two sonnes John and William This John. 

 Palmer will wander abroad sometymes fortnight together wearing apparel fitting 

 a gent: having stockings upon his leggs worth forty and fifty shillings a 

 pear taking noe honest sorte of lyving to get his lyving. Ann Palmer goeth in 

 her silJce bodyces and other apparell fitting a gent .... It were to 

 tedious to set downe all their abuses and misdemenors whereby they doe greatly 

 annoy maney of his leidg people seeking to kill me for noe wrong to them 

 offered by me . . . . This Eichard Palmer did come upon yo r orator's 

 ground w th a byll and made an assalt upon yo T orator goeing about his bysynes 

 suspecting noe ill and did put yo r orator in great danger of his lyff." 



The inhabitants of All Cannings are moved to report of a not 

 very reputable parishioner that she is 



" A verie sedicious contentious and troublesome p'son and a greate sower o£ 

 discord and debate betwene neighbour and neighbour in contempte of his highnes' 

 lawes and to the evill example of others she is a comon Iyer and she goethe about 

 to take awaie not onlie the good names but to bringe them in question for their 

 lives by her lyinge speaches." 



