326 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
ExizaBeTH ARUNDEL, widow of a recusant, paid £60. 
James Awp.Lrey, Eart or CasTLEHAVEN. 
In respect of the Wiltshire estates in this sequestration, no other 
papers have been found but a schedule of meadows at Eyford, and a 
petition from Elizabeth, Countess of Castlehaven, 9th April, 1652, 
praying that, as her life interest in the manors of Compton Basset, 
Studley, and Baverstock, in Wilts, and others in Kent, parcel of 
the lands of James, Earl of Castlehaven, delinquent, had been 
recognised by the Committee of Obstructions, she might be allowed 
to enjoy them without further molestation. No composition men- 
tioned. 
Harrap Baroy, of Mere, gentleman. He adhered to the forces 
raised against the Parliament; for which his delinquency he humbly 
prays permission to compound ;—petition dated 22nd August, 1650. 
Fine, £1 18s.4d. His own mode of spelling his Christian name 
has been here preserved; though Hartgild be only another variety 
of Hartgill, the name of the victims in the Stourton tragedy ; 
‘otherwise spelt in still earlier documents, Hardgull, and latterly 
Hargill. This gentleman’s losses in the royal cause appear to 
have been amply made up to him. As the agent in “ hazardous 
secret service” he actually got a promise from Charles II. when at 
Breda, for a pension of £200 a year for thirty-one years; which 
was duly ratified some time after the King’s return, about 1662. 
At the same time he also aequired the office of Steward of the Court 
of Record in Windsor Castle; and the reversion (after John Hill) 
of that of ranger and bailiff of Battle’s Walk, Windsor. He was 
the first to announce (so it is stated in one of his petitions) to the 
exiled Court at Breda the determination of the Parliament of 
England to declare for a Restoration. 
Joun Bennett, of South Marston, gent. He rode in arms asa 
captain of horse for the King, but rendered himself to the Wilts 
Committee in 1644, when for further satisfaction he took both the 
National Covenant and the Negative Oath. Edmund Martyn, 
Robert Brown, Thomas Goddard, and William Jesse, of the Wilts 
Committee, testify that as to Captain Bennett’s estate, real and 
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