332 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
Tockenham, remainder to his eldest son, William, then to William’s 
first son, and so on in tail, burdened, however, with a rent charge 
of £100, being thus settled on the marriage of his said son to 
Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Rolle, of Steventon, in Devonshire, 
_16th April, 16 Car. Annual value before the troubles, £400. Other 
lands at Tockenham, £72 14s.4d. He possesses the term of a lease 
having five years to run of the manors of Alton and Stowell, 
£214 48.6d. Old rents there, £15 15s.6d. He is seised of a 
freehold during the term of his life in other lands, parcel of his 
manor of Wraxhall, remainder to his son William. as above, annual 
value £40. His personal estate in cattle, goods, aud household 
stuff he estimates at £700, and there is £700 owing to him in 
debts. Fine, at a tenth, £2380. Dated 2nd January, 1646. 
17th October, 1648, Sir William Button petitioned the Lords, 
desiring to be heard before his ordinance of composition passed the 
Houses, who thereupon recommended the commissioners at Gold- 
smith’s Hall either to give him the benefit of a review, or, if that 
might not be, to allow as part of his fine the sum of £300 which 
the Committee of Wilts had already seized. He complained that, 
having but a life estate in the greater part of the lands expressed 
in his “particular,” and his own submission being based upon the 
Articles of Oxford, the benefit whereof he was entitled to enjoy, he 
had nevertheless been assessed in two years’ value for the demesnes 
and six years’ value for the old rents, though having no greater 
estate therein than for life. The moiety he had already paid, and 
secured the remainder according to the rules in force. The appeal 
seems to have been unheeded. At least I have met with no subse- 
quent document. Sir William Button’s house of West Tockenham 
Court (says Canon Jackson’s account) was twice stripped. In 
June, 1643, Sir Edward Hungerford made a foray, and carried off 
three hundred and eighty sheep, sixty-nine beasts, one hundred and 
sixty [pounds ?] weight of wool, besides the beds and hangings from 
the rooms, and the pewter and brass from the kitchen—total value, 
£767. In the following June, 1644, a party of horse from 
Malmesbury garrison repeated the invasion, making spoil of four 
hundred and forty sheep, fifty beasts, sixty-two mares and foals ; 
