of the Seventeenth Century. 



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hard long winter, the necessities of the poor, all soher people 

 abhorring the multitude of ale-houses and protesting against the 

 unreasonable quantity of barley turned into malt which is wantonly 

 and wickedly spent in such houses. Puritan justices would be ready 

 to cut off the supplies of hostels where Cavaliers drank the King's 

 health and speedy return. But the Restoration put these matters 

 on a different footing; and at the summer assize, 15th September, 

 1660, at Salisbury, we find the judges — Sir Robert Foster and Sir 

 Thomas Tyrrell — granting licenses for ale-houses to Phineas Haines, 

 at Quarr House, Donhead ; and to Francis Yerbury, at his house at 

 Bradford. On the petition supporting the first I find the names of 

 William and Richard Lush, so well known in that district. 



It should be mentioned, too, that the orders, which had been 

 written in English during the Commonwealth, are in Latin aftqr 

 the Restoration. 



Then in the same assize at Dorchester, September 10th, 1660; 

 it is ordered that Sir John ffitz James, Knight, Robert Coker, Esq.> 

 Thomas Moore, Esq., Walter ffoy, Esq., and Whiston Churchill, 

 Esq., five of the Justices for the County, or any two of them, doe 

 take care that " The business concerninge the witchcraft and con- 

 sultation with the Devill and Evill Spiritts in Sherborne bee with all 

 speede examined," and all concerned, and witnesses, to be bound 

 over to appear at the next assize. 



In 1662, July 15th, at Exeter, Sir Peter Prideaux, High Sheriff, 

 informs the Court that the Lord Treasurer of England complains 

 that the County is slow about paying the King's contribution from 

 the County— £12,060. The Commissioners, appointed by the Act for 

 enabling the collection of the grant, are to meet in their several 

 divisions and collect, or fine defaulters, and get all in by 1st 

 September following. 



16th August (no year, but next in book, probably same Assize). 

 Order to Mayor of Launceston to appear at the next Quarter 

 Sessions to show cause why he should not apply some of the funds 

 of St. Leonard's Hospital, near Launceston, to the inmates of St. 

 Lawrence Hospital. He is to bring his charter with him. 



How changed is all this. Modern Courts of Assize would stare to 



