Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 333 
and, from the house itself, damask curtains, scarlet cloth, silver 
plate, one fair gridiron, one hundred -cheeses, and all the butter, 
together with the apparatus for making it, out of the dairy—total 
value, £526 6s. On the 22nd November, same year, Sir Edmund 
Fowell, president of the Committee of Sequestrations, was constituted 
“tenant to the State” for Sir William Button’s lands at Tockenham, 
paying £320 a year. Sir William appears afterwards to have lived 
at his manor of Shaw, near Overton; and in 1646 was fined £2380 
for delinquency. He died in 1654. He had been educated at 
Exeter College; and attended Sir Arthur Hopton in his embassy 
through France and Spain. His hospitality is said to have been 
exemplary to poor scholars, poor ministers, and cavaliers. Aubrey 
and Jackson, 190. The acts of plunder recorded in the above docu- 
ment, which is evidently a private family memorial, are quite within 
the range of credibility, but they form no part of Sir William’s 
plea for clemency when exhibiting his “ particular” before the 
London Commissioners. 
This family claimed descent from Sir Walter Button, or Bytton, 
a knight who flourished in the reign of Henry III. Sir William 
Button of the Civil War period, in conversation with Aubrey, the 
antiquary, once informed him that their ancestors had held Tocken- 
ham four hundred years. The lease of this inheritance expiring in 
1652, it fell to the Earl of Pembroke. This Sir William, who had 
been created a baronet by James I. in 1621, married Ruth, daughter 
of Walter Dunch, of Avebury, Esq., by whom he had seven children. 
Three of his sons, viz., William, Robert, and John, successively 
inherited the baronetcy ; but dying without issue the title became 
extinct in 1712. Their sister Mary, married to Clement Walker, 
Esq., of Charterhouse Leadon, in Somersetshire, Usher of the 
Exchequer, came in modern times to be represented by George 
Heneage Walker-Heneage, of Compton Basset, in Wilts, and M.P. 
for Devizes. Sir William, the compounder, died in 1655, and was 
buried in a vault which he had caused to be constructed in the 
north aisle of North Wraxhall Church; where also lie his son 
William, aforesaid, and William’s wife, Dame Anne (Rolle) Button. 
In 1667 Sir Robert Button sold the manor of North Wraxhall, 
