42 SIR JOHN STATHAM, OF WIGWELL. 
Loyalty, was frequently plundered & sequestred* & had a 
Brother his cornet killed in y* King’s service, by which means’ 
having a numerous Family of Children & being driven from place 
to place by y® Rebells being voted a notorious Delinquent & a 
reward offer'd to any that cu’d take him dead or alive & his goods 
& effects to be free booty, & his Sovoraigne being martyr’d & y* 
Loyall party ruin’d, he was forc’d to compound with y* Committee 
of y® Rebells at Goldsmithshall for his Estate ;+ but just before y* 
Restauration had sold & convey’d his seat & estate at Edlastall 
where my great Grandfather, and Grandfather were born, to 
Thomas Gladwin (who was then in possion und* y® sequestration,) 
for about rooo", altho’ worth 3000" and upwards. Shortly after 
God Almighty restored the Royall Family but my great Grand- 
father gained nothing, was only Provost Marshall of y* County, (at 
that time of some command) by which he only keept more 
Company & incumbred the remaind’ of his Estate, & his eldest 
son John being a Capt® in y* Army & very Expensive was kill’d 
before y® walls of Mons and then my Grandfather was heir & my 
great Grandfather dying in 1679 (1619?) my Grandfather was 
forced to sell great part of his Estate at Matlock & Tansley } to pay 
debts, the residue he settled on my Father on marriage 1700, 
which small remaind* my Father hath given to me which I now 
enjoy but part of: it is intailed on heirs-males. 
“JT begg your indulgence to hear me a few minets, on acc‘ of 
the great Value I have for you all, & that I may not leave the 
world with yo’ mean or ill opinion of me. Everyone desires to 
live in the thoughts of those he has an esteeme for; that is my 
only inducem‘'. In the course of this Dispute, I appeale to the 
whole world, as to the false charges & contemptuous treatm*' I 
have rec’, and that eaven from the hand of a friend w" wounds 
the deepest. A man wu’d think ’41 was returned & levelling 
Principles had poss’ed the world, to corrupt gentl" of great learning 
& worth. A mob has been brought to appear to countenance one 
* Vide Sequestration Book for y® Co. of Derby. 
+ V. Owlers Inde. + Vide Matlock Ct Rolls and Books. 
