of the Seventeenth Century. 



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of the body after execution at Dorchester, A.D. 1705, may be re- 

 membered, when ten thousand people are said to have assembled to 

 witness it in the Amphitheatre at that place. There is a distinction 

 made between the principal felon and the accessory ; the body of the 

 latter is not to be burnt. 



"Devon. Exeter Assizes, March 10th, 1676. 



Ann Evans an apprentice indicted and convcd. of poisoning her 

 Master's wife and daughter, one Phillippa Carey wife of Robert 

 Carey being convcd. of being accessory_before and after ye fact at 

 Plymouth a populous towne, and Excn. there will be of publique 

 example That they bee excd. in some convenient place in the towne 

 neare where the sd. psons were poisoned and murdered Ann Evans 

 to be drawne on a hurdle to the place where she shall bee executed 

 and there to bee burnt to death. And the said Phillippa Carey 

 to be hauged on a Jibbett to be set upp for that purpose by yee 

 necke untill shee bee dead. And the Under Sheriffe of this County 

 his deputy is hereby required to see this order punctually performed 

 in every particular as hee will answere the contrary att perill. And 

 *They — Mr. yee day for the same execution to bee Thursday in Easter Weeke 

 Weekes (The being the thirtyeth day of this instant March between ye howers 

 Master) or of tenn and two of the Clock. But if they* shall fayle to undertake 

 the Magis- before Easter to defray the extraordinary expeuses thereof the sd. 

 trates of Execution is to bee donne att the tyme aforesaid iu the ordinary 

 Plymouth, place for Execution of malefactors in ye said County of Devon." 



With two more I must conclude. And here, too, we note again 

 the absence of the touch of the vanished hand of a past procedure, 

 whilst several of the descendants of the Justices survive amongst 

 our present Magistracy. 



" Somerset. Taunton Wed. March 17th 1676. 



Upon the psentment of the Grand Inquest for the County 

 aforesaid made att the Assizes concerning an house built at Pawloa 

 Street in Taunton for the meeting of Dissenters from the Church 

 of England to the encouragement of faction and contrary to a late 

 Act of Parlt. The Cort recommends presnt. to J. P. at next Qr. 

 Sessions to bee holden after the feast of Easter." 



"Wiltes. New Sarum July 15 1676.— Richard Raynsford and Humfrya 



Littleton. 



Complaynts about the Overseers accounts for the Parish of Cain© 

 Cort desires S r Thomas Estcourte, Thomas Bennett, Thomas 

 Chamberlayne, Robert Drew, Nevill Maskeline, Jeffery DanieU 

 and John Sharpe Seven of his Majesties' Justices of the Peace for 

 the County aforesaid or any three or more to enquire into thet 

 matter. 



Circuit Order Book No. 3, 1652—1679 



