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Some other articles of theft and their prices may be enumerated. 

 Horses and sheep, quoted at prices which extort a sigh from a 

 modern purchaser, give ground for indictments with a frequency 

 undeterred by the severity of the punishment for this sort of 

 larceny. They included a mare li color is rone grey " value £8 ; a 

 gelding value 100*.; "sheep hoggs colons albi," value '6s. each. 

 From the poultry yard are stolen " Turkyes," and a hen value 

 4>d. From the garden " cabbidges." Among other purloined 

 articles appear " Two sesterns" ; " a quarter of a load of hey .... 

 of the value xd. " ; "& bushell of maulte " ; "a paire of sheets," 

 value 7*. ; " a Hollan sheete " ; " canvas sheets "a woman's 

 gound," value 40s. ; " Two wastcotts/'' value 10*.; "a fustian 

 wastcott " ; " a hatt," value 4*. ; " halfe a yarde of golde fringe, 1 

 value 2*. ; a sword, value 5s., and a pair of leather gloves [chiro- 

 thecarum corii] value 6d." ; " a cipers , [Cyprus'] hattbond " [unam 

 spirant], value 4s. ; " a shirt," value 2s. ; " sl doublett," value 5s. ; 

 " a table cloth," value 5s. ; " Kerehers," and " Hand Kerchers " ; 

 " Partletts," and " Foreheads " ; " Three silver spones " [tria coclear 

 argent] value 9d. ; " a purse " [unam crumenan] value 2s. ; " a 

 knife," value 2d. ; " a wooden box" [unam ligneam pixidem], value 

 2d. ; and " a skayne of white thread/' value Id. 



In conclusion some miscellaneous entries may be noticed. 



At the Trinity Sessions, 1607, appears the following presentment 

 from the Hundred of Dunworth : — 



" That the pownde of Chiklade have byn in default thes three monethes only 

 by the ineanes of Mr. Thomas Mompesson of Corton." 



From the Hundred of Warminster, the following : — 



' ' Item we doe present that thare wanteth a cooking stoole in the town of 

 Warmester which ought to be made and mayntayned by Simon Sloper being the 

 lorde Awdlye's baylyffie." 



At the Michaelmas Sessions, 1609, was preferred a long indict- 

 ment concerning corn mills and fulling mills at Blackland and 



1 The fringe, sword, and gloves, were burglariously stolen from the Lodge, at 

 Littlecote : the thief was hanged (Michaelmas, 1605). 



