Communicated by Mr. James Waylen, 331 
Watrer Booxianpd, of Downton, in Wilts, and of Trotton, in 
Sussex, Esq. He was in arms against the Parliament during the 
first war; he petitioned before 6 December, 1645, but was refused 
composition on the alleged ground that he had been a papist in 
arms. ‘To purge himself he signed the oath of abjuration before 
Alderman Adams, Lord Mayor of London, 4th June, 1646, received 
the sacrament at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, from the hands of 
Dr. Samuel Gibson, and exhibited proof that he had also taken it 
at Salisbury in 1641, from Benjamin Blaxton, of Westhorny. 
Moreover, in August, 1646, he took both the Covenant and the 
Negative Oath. His estate in Sussex he estimates at £190 10s. 
per annum; that in Wiltshire, consisting of demesnes and quit 
rents in Downton, is of the yearly value of £186, but a third of it 
is his mother’s dowry. He therefore compounded for two-thirds, 
though £20 additional was charged on it for his uncle, Walter 
Bockland. ‘Total fine for Wilts and Sussex, put at a sixth, but 
afterwards at a tenth, was £696 ; declared 7th December, 1649. 
Awnprew Bowerman, of Stratford-under-the-Castle, D.D. He is 
seised for the term of two lives in being, of and in the rectory and 
parsonage impropriate of Stratford; also a farm and mill there, 
held under the Dean and Canons of Sarum, worth £100 a year over 
and above the reserved rent of £46 6s. 8d. Fine at a tenth, 
£125. 
Sm Wittram Bourton, of Shaw, otherwise of Alton Priors, 
Bart. His delinquency. That he voluntarily left his habitation, 
resided at Oxford, adhered to the King’s party, and hath taken 
neither the Negative Oath nor the National Covenant. He was at 
Oxford at the surrender, and is to have the benefit of the articles 
thereof. He is seised of a frank patent for life in land at Shaw, in 
Overton, and at Phillips-Norton and Welhbecke, with remainder to 
his son, Robert Button, annual value before these troubles, £170. 
Also old rents in Wilts, Somerset, and Hants, £75 ; the above being 
settled by Sir William Button by deed dated 5th August, 19th 
Car. (with a clause of revocation), in consideration of natural love 
and affection. He is seised of a freehold for life in the demesne of 
