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smallest. The same price to continewe until the next Sessions and this to be 

 published that all comon brewers Inkepers and Alekepers doe sell according to 

 this rate. 



" Henry Saru" James Meevin Wa Yattghan 



Edw Penruddok Geo Ivye John Ayliffe 



Jasp' More Jhon Hugeeforde 



Wm Wilkinson W Blacker 



Wm Baylief Edm Longe 



Henry Martyn G Tookbr" 



John Hall 



Not by presentments and petitions alone were the functions of 

 the quarter sessions invoked; gentle impulses reached the court 

 from other directions. Communications from Lord Hertford and 

 Sir Giles Wroughton to their fellow-justices have already been 

 transcribed. Here are others— from individual members of the 

 cour t_f r om judges of the superior courts— and from the King 

 himself. 



Michaelmas, 1604. Thomas Snell, Esq., J.P., makes a cautious 

 report touching a difference between Thomas Russell and Robert 

 Hadnam, concluding with the words : — 



"1 can say nothing in comendacon of the__sayd Hadnam's qualities in 

 generality, for want of matter, being a fellow comonly haunting alehouses and 

 a comon drounckerd, and I think was dronk the time he abused Tho Russell as 

 aforesayd. Kyngton the 3 of October 1604 



" Y r loving Frind 



" Tho. Snell." 



An applicant to the Easter Sessions, 1609, for permission to erect 

 a building at South Wraxall came armed with this testimonial :— 



u Good S r William Eyer let me intreate you and rest of the Justices of the 

 Peace to doe this poore man all the goode you maye hearin [herein] 



"Your very loving frende 



" Wa Longe." 



A sufferer by fire found a powerful patron in Chief J ustice Popham, 



who thus accosts the justices at the Michaelmas Sessions, 1606. 



First of all, by the hand of an amanuensis, he writes in the language 



of official courtesy : — 



" After my verie hartie commendations. I have heretofore written unto you 

 oae the behalfe of the bearer hereof Roberto Thresher who hath receaved verie 



