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a rent of £3 6s.8d. paid to the lessor, before the troubles worth 
more, £36. 
Out of this estate Mr. Bennett pays yearly to his son, Anthony, 
£160, settled by deed dated 2nd October, 17th Car., and to his 
sister, Mrs. Jessie Bennett, to hold during the term of her life, £8 ; 
to his aunt Mrs. Jane Hunt, widow, during her life, if the com- 
pounder so long live, an annuity of £8. 
The following entry respecting his fine is dated 18th September, 
1646, “On reviewing his whole case, £1000.” This thousand 
pounds, therefore, was probably advanced by his kinsman, William 
Hitchcock, Esq., of Miles’s Court, Essex, as may be inferred from 
the following letter, dated some months previously, to the com- 
pounding committee sitting at Goldsmith’s Hall :— 
“ Honovurgp GENTLEMEN. Be pleased to take notice that whereas one Mr. 
Thomas Bennett my kinsman hath desired me to make composition with your 
honours, for the delinquency of him and of his son John Bennett, I have ac- 
cordingly spent what time I could possibly spare three or four several days 
within these fourteen days last past at your committee-room, to be heard ; but 
could not obtain the favour, in regard your honours have been so full of business. 
My humble desire is that now, seeing my occasions call me into the country, my 
cousin may not suffer for my absence. One Mr. Coombes who knoweth my 
cousin Bennett will attend ; and when by him I may know your honours’ pleasure 
what the fine to be imposed shall be, I will speedily apply myself to procure the 
money. My cousin is out of a good sum of money already, which I trust your 
honours will tenderly consider of, together with his condition, having ten children 
and no estate in any thing but only for his own life, which humbly premising, 
I rest, your servant to be commanded. Dated from Myles’s in Essex, 26 Dec. 
1645. 
“Winttam Hircucocx.” 
Joun Bennett, of Pyt House, gentleman. He was in arms 
against the Parliament, having ridden as a trooper in Colonel 
Strangway’s regiment. He submitted before the lst of December, 
1645, and presented his first petition in the following July,’ having 
taken both the oaths. 
He is seised of a freehold during three lives (if he shall attain 
the age of 21, being now only 18), of and in Critchell Farm, in 
Dorset, held of Lord Arundel, yielding before these troubles a yearly 
rent of £27 6s. 8d. over and above a reserved rent of £2 13s. 4d. 
He is seised of a like estate in a tenement called Hatchfield, in 
