362 Proposed Repeal of the Test and Penal Statutes 



" Return, transmitted on the part of the Lord-Lieutenant oe 

 Wiltshire, to the Council of King James II., 168 \- 

 34 Parliament-men for Wiltshire. 



2 Knights of the Shire ; 

 My L"* Cornbury,* and S"" James Long ; j' old place of electing Knights of 

 y= shire is at Wilton, but if it be removed to y^ Devizes, all y* dissenters will 

 come in, and cany it as they please w"" a little help. 



Salsbuet, 



Old Saextm, 



Wilton, 



DOWNTON, 



HiNDON, 



Westbtjbt, 



Hettsbtjey, 



Calne, 



Devizes, 



Chippenham 



Mr Swaine, 

 Mr Heely. 



S' John Nicholas Kn*, 

 Oliver Nicholas, Esq. 

 S' Charles Eowly, 

 Mr Eyres. 



Robert Hyde Esq 



Coll Lewis 

 Mr. Bertie. 



WiUiam Ashe Esq. 

 Edward Ashe Esq. 



Mr. Davenant, 

 Mr. Chivers. 



S"' John Eiles, 



M' Hope. 



S' John Talbott. 



f Strong dissenters : will certainly 

 be chosen, if there be a suplemen- 

 taU charter : and a few new ones 

 added to the corporation. 



11s come to be a popular election, 

 and the dissenters joyning w"" y' 

 Kings friends will choose 2 fitt 

 persons. Mr Pitt, interloper, has 

 y^ making : y' BaHy returns the 

 writt. 

 C My J/ Pembroke has the chiefe 

 (^ interest here. 



C A Lawyer, a strong dissenter ; 

 < he manages my L'' ArundeU of 

 (_ Warders concerns. 



Mr. Hide has the chiefe Interest. 

 Mr. Lambert within jnentioned, 

 was one of the last Burgesses, but 

 I prevailed w"" him not to stand. 

 My L"' Abbington and Coll. 

 Lewis have the chiefe interest, but 

 there is one M^ Trenchard that 

 lives just by may give an oppo- 

 sition, if joyn'd with some person 

 y' would spend monies, which will 

 go a great way in y^ little boroughs. 

 Coll Lewis is a very nere man, and 

 will spend little or nothing. 



These 2 have the sole interest in 

 y^ Borrough. I was infonned by 

 M'' Jefrys of y' Devizes, one of D"' 

 Coxes agents, and by another dis- 

 senter, that they would be moderate 

 men in this matter. 



M'. Davenant and M' Chivers 

 5 have the sole interest ; but if a new 

 1 charter be found proper for the 

 V^town, M' Davenant will be left out. 

 f Yeiy honest and fitt persons to 

 \ serve his Maj'^ 



r Mr. Eichard Kent of y' custom 

 house, and M'. Baiuton have the 

 chiefe interest, but if M"' Kent 

 sticks close to S' John Talbott, 

 they will cany it. S"' James Long, 

 whom I can engage, has a good 

 interest too. 





• Lord Cornbury, eldest son of the Earl of Clarendon (« hich title became extinct, 1723) , was the 

 first who joined the standard of William of Orange. 



