528 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
taken prisoner at Shaftesbury he was not acting in opposition to 
the Parliament, but was merely attending the market. ‘‘ His fine 
was at first set at £2000, not aceording to the condition of his estate, 
but according to the nature of his offence, for which, at that time 
[just after the club-rising], there was no certain rule given by the 
Parliament, by which he and those in his condition should compound. 
But since the fine was set an Order of the House of 4th May 1646 
has directed that such of the clubmen as come in to compound shall 
have the benefit of the Propositions as other delinquents, according 
to their respective comings in; and he having come in before Ist 
of December and taken the Oath and Covenant, and his estate 
according to the ‘ particular’ returned out of the county appearing 
to be as follows.” 
He is seised of a freehold for life; remainder to Anthony Bennett, 
his son, for life, and to Ais first son in tail, &c.—of and in divers 
messuages, lands, and tenements in the parishes of Tisbury, Knowell, 
Donhead, Gillingham, and Shaftesbury; annual value before the 
troubles, £370. A like estate of old-rents issuing out of lands and 
tenements in the said parishes, £25 12s.4d. He is possessed of 
the remainder of a farm for ninety-nine years, if three lives shall 
so long live, of certain lands and tenements lying and being in 
Savernak, holden by demise of and from the lord Marquis of Hart- 
ford, at the yearly rent of 2s. 6d., and worth, over and above this 
reserved rent, £100 before the troubles. The reversion of this is 
settled on Christopher Bennett, his son. He is possessed of the 
remainder of a term for ninety-nine years determinable upon three 
lives, of and in Penley Farm, in Wilts, for which he pays to the 
Lord Stourton per annum £10 and two capons, and to the Earl of 
Marlborough £20. Over and above these sums it was worth £109 
before the troubles. He is possessed of a like estate for ninety-nine 
years, with like provisions, in lands at Hatherley, in Somerset, 
holden of Mr. Gawen at a rent of forty shillings ; worth more, £14. 
And a similar estate at Semley, at a rent of twenty shillings; worth 
more, £13. The like at Chilmark, holden by demise from William 
Jessie, formerly worth £16 a year. The remainder of a term having 
twenty-two years to run, in a tenement at Hatch, for which there is 
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