By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq. 157 
““T writt to you a week since, to know if you might have anything against one 
Collonell Bennett (formerly of the kings party) whom I received upon suspition, 
and would willingly let goe free, if I knew his highness’s pleasure therein. I 
have now sent me an inventory of Mr. Lucas his personall estate, which I gott 
two honest men of the towne to take with an officer of myne. I shall send it 
up to you some time by a messenger, it being of too great bulke for a letter. 
I have employed two very honest men to-go up and downe the countrey, 
and bespeake such as may be fit matter for jurors at Sarum; and Monday and 
tuesday severall honest gentlemen will be with the sheriffe and myselfe at 
_ Sarum, to direct and correct us therein; and, indeed, his facileness, and my 
unacquaintance with the country, made me thinke of this course. The next 
time you shall write any commands to me, you may please to direct them to me 
at Salisbury.” 
Mark well his observations about poor Lucas’s estate—that ripe 
plum for the Commissioners for Sequestration—and note that every 
care is taken, that the jurors summoned should be government men. 
The county is well searched for a panel of this colour, and then the 
numbers so made up are further sifted a week before the assizes, after 
a careful examination. But there is no evidence of any direct 
tampering with them; in one, if not more cases we shall see that 
they took a line of their own, notwithstanding the efforts of Mr. 
Attorney General. 
The Salisbury commission day, April 11th, arrived and there was 
**a very great dppearance of honest jurymen, that shewed their readiness to 
attend the service of His Highnesse and the Commonwealth, being made choice 
of by the Sheriff.” * 
All the judges arrived the day before, except the Lord Chief 
Justice, who came the following morning. 
‘The Sheriff was put to it to meet the judges, they coming into the City of 
Sarum for this work, as it were from the 4 corners of the world, East, West, 
North and South, so they did, the like was never known before, yet the Sheriffe 
with his men gaye the judges which came into the city, a meeting and waited 
on them severally to their lodgings, so well as if they had been all together.” + 
“‘That day too (April 11th) there was a sermon preached to the Commisisoners 
in the Great Church at Salisbury by Mr. Rashley, Minister of the Great Church 
and that day the Commisioners were called that after noon.” { 
‘The Sheriffe entertained the judges and his Highnesses counsell with much 
respect on the first day of their sitting.” § 
* Perfect Proceedings, May 3rd, 1655. + Ibid, t Ibid, April 19th, sIbid, May 8rd, 
