^{page 163 note 1} The date in the Salisbury copy is given as 20 September.

^{page 163 note 2} Vol. iii. p. 260 seq.

^{page 164 note 1} It would seem that two petitions were presented by the Corporation for the revision of their Charter. The first of these was referred, on 29 November, 1655, to a Committee of the Council (Calendar S. P., Dom., 1655–6, p. 41). The second petition was apparently drafted in December 1655 (Hoare, Hist. of Wilts (Salisbury), p. 436 sq.), and was presented, after further consideration, in January 1656. It was referred on 21 February, 1656, to a committee (Cal. S. P., Dom., 1655–6, p. 195), and was again referred on 29 February (ibid. p. 204) to a committee which may be identified with the Committee on Municipal Charters, whose operations have not hitherto been traced to an earlier date than April 1656 (ibid. p. 253, and Gardiner, History, iii. 289). This committee reported on the petitions referred to on the 22 May, 1656 (Cal. S. P., Dom., p. 330).

^{page 164 note 2} Historical Manuscripts Commission, Various Collections, vol. i. p. 170.

^{page 164 note 3} Cf. S. R. Gardiner, op. cit., p. 292; Hoare, op. cit.; Wilts Archœological Magazine, vol. xxv. p. 152 and vol. xxviii. p. 51.

^{page 164 note 4} Commons Journals, 2 August, 1659. Whether the cancelled charter is still preserved amongst the papers of the House of Commons has not been ascertained, but it is not preserved with similar instruments amongst the records of the Exchequer.

^{page 165 note 1} Cf. S. P., Dom., Interregn., p. 330, and Wilts Arch. Mag. xxv. 152. The official account of the negotiations for a revision of the charter is given in Hoare, l. c.

^{page 165 note 2} Lists of the Commonwealth Charters and Privy Seals will be found in the Deputy Keeper's Reports, iv. ii. 189, and v. ii. 246; but these were purely fiscal instruments. The MS. Chancery Index of Patents ends in the year 1655, and there is no bundle of Privy Seals, King's Bills, or Warrants for the date. This charter is not mentioned in the account of the fees of the Hanaper ending December 1656, though the charters to London and Swansea are noted therein.

^{page 165 note 3} L. T. R. Memoranda Roll, No. 679, rot. 71. There is a gap in this series between the roll for Michaelmas Term 1656 (No. 680) and that for 21 Charles II. Fortunately, however, the record of Hilary Term 1656–7 appears to have been misplaced, forming part of the roll for Easter and Trinity Terms 1656.

^{page 166 note 1} We have no positive confirmation of the date given in the Exchequer version. The Hanaper account, however, has no entries for fees paid in September later than the 15th of that month.

^{page 166 note 2} Cf. supra, p. 164, n. 1, and Gardiner, op. cit. iii. 289.

^{page 167 note 1} Transcribed from the contemporary copy of the original charter in the possession of the mayor and corporation, and collated (to indicate verbal variants only) with the official enrolment on the Memoranda Boll of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer (Hil. T. 1657, rot. 71). The record of this enrolment is as follows :—

Bee it Remembred that the Maior and Cominalty of the Cittie of ‘wilts, Citty of New Sarum county of Wilts the three and twentieth day of New sarum January this Terme came before the Barons of this Exchequer and by theire Attorney Christopher Barnard brought heere in Court a certen Charter under the great Seale of England bearing date the twelfe day of September in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred fiftie and six conteyning a confirmacion of certen Liberties and of alteracions of former Charters with further Jurisdiccions and Priviledges to them the said Maior and Cominalty graunted by his Highnes Oliver Lord Protector of the Common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland with the dominions thereto belonging and prayed that the same might be inrolled of Record in this Court as by the said Charter is required And it was commanded by the Barons that the same should be inrolled accordingly The tenor whereof followeth in these words that is to say.’

^{page 167 note 2} [England, Scotland T.]

^{page 167 note 3} [from T.]

^{page 168 note 1} [of the T.]

^{page 168 note 2} [or T.]

^{page 168 note 3} [thenceforth T.]

^{page 168 note 4} [Steward T.]

^{page 169 note 1}

^{page 169 note 2} [the said late T.]

^{page 169 note 3} [as a T.]

^{page 169 note 4} [Annuities T.]

^{page 169 note 5} [whatsoever T.]

^{page 169 note 6} [Bishopps T.]

^{page 169 note 7} [Bishopprick T.]

^{page 169 note 8} [T omits and.]

^{page 170 note 1} [or either or any T.]

^{page 170 note 2} [as T.]

^{page 171 note 1}

^{page 171 note 2} [Bishopps T.]

^{page 171 note 3} [Annuities T.]

^{page 172 note 1} [used T.]

^{page 172 note 2} [T omits or.]

^{page 172 note 3} [T omits said.]

^{page 172 note 4} [other officers or T.]

^{page 173 note 1} [Charter or Grant T.]

^{page 173 note 2} [Canbury T.]

^{page 174 note 1} [After this word T reads cittizens of our said citty of New Sarum and they which hereafter shall be cittizens and omits the words printed in italics.]

^{page 174 note 2} [Corporate and Politick T.]

^{page 174 note 3} [continue T.]

^{page 175 note 1} [named ordeyned and T.]

^{page 175 note 2} [name, ordeyne and T.]

^{page 175 note 3} [Heely and T.]

^{page 176 note 1} [Hatter T.]

^{page 177 note 1} [Lawes, orders T.]

^{page 178 note 1} No parenthesis sign in T.

^{page 178 note 2} T omits the words in italics.

^{page 178 note 3} [and inhabitants T.]

^{page 178 note 4} [Maior Aldermen T.]

^{page 178 note 5} [Recorder, Aldermen T.]

^{page 178 note 6} [which said T.]

^{page 179 note 1} [Felonies T.]

^{page 179 note 2} [Forestallaries T.]

^{page 179 note 3} [belonging T.]

^{page 179 note 4} [and T.]

^{page 180 note 1} [T omits and.]

^{page 180 note 2} [T omits mentioned and.]

^{page 180 note 3} [and T.]

^{page 180 note 4} [or justice of, T.]

^{page 180 note 5} [any such T.]

^{page 180 note 6} [of the T.]

^{page 180 note 7} [and any T.]

^{page 180 note 8} [or any or T.]

^{page 181 note 1} [be sent T.]

^{page 181 note 2} [T omits vertue of.]

^{page 181 note 3} [T omits the present.]

^{page 181 note 4} [or T.]

^{page 181 note 5} [such T.]

^{page 182 note 1} [T omits the.]

^{page 183 note 1} [or T.]

^{page 184 note 1} [in such T.]

^{page 185 note 1} [Serjeants T.]

^{page 185 note 2} [the T.]

^{page 186 note 1} [and any T.]

^{page 186 note 2} [and cases T.]

^{page 186 note 3} [Inhabitants T.]

^{page 186 note 4} [T omits said.]

^{page 186 note 5} [soe T.]

^{page 187 note 1} [other our T.]

^{page 188 note 1} [and T.]

^{page 188 note 2} [seale T.]

^{page 188 note 3} [T omits giuen.]

^{page 189 note 1} [the said T.]

^{page 190 note 1} [or justices T.]

^{page 190 note 2} [as aforesaid follows Deans and Chapters in T.]

^{page 191 note 1} [hereafter ordered T.]

^{page 191 note 2} [might T.]

^{page 192 note 1} [continue T.]

^{page 192 note 2} [or T.]

^{page 193 note 1} [maynteyned T.]

^{page 194 note 1} [at all time and T.]

^{page 194 note 2} [other the T.]

^{page 195 note 1} [or of T.]

^{page 196 note 1} [Statutes and orders T.]

^{page 197 note 1} [T omits the.]

^{page 197 note 2} [these presents T.]

^{page 198 note 1} [nameing T.]

^{page 198 note 2} [notwithstanding T.]

^{page 198 note 3} [Twelfth T.]

^{page 198 note 4} [fiftie-six T.]