334 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
advowson excepted, to William Grove, of Broadchalk. It now 
belongs to the Methuen family. 
Rosert Bynes, of All Cannings, D.D. He left his habitation, 
repaired to the King’s quarters, and adhered to the forces raised 
against the Parliament. He is seised during the life of his wife, 
who holds the same “as jointeress ” to a former husband, of and in 
lands and messuages at Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire, of the 
yearly value before the war of £35, Fine, at a third, £87 10s. 
Dated 16th May, 1649. Dr. Byng’s wife was the daughter of 
John St. Loe, of Broadchalk, by Elizabeth, the daughter of Lawrence 
Hyde, of Hatch, Esq. 
Rozert CHANDLER, of Wilton, gent. The father of this com- 
pounder, namely, Richard Chandler, the Rector of St. Mary’s, in 
Wilton, was a presbyterian in principle and a friend to the Parlia- 
ment’s cause. His gift of £10 to the Wilts Committee is recorded 
in their day book 16th May, 1645. But shortly after this we find 
him in trouble, as testified by the following entry :— 
“©19 Noy. Robert Chandler, son of Mr. Chandler, the minister of Wilton, 
hath been before us for his delinquency, and subscribed the sum of £40 to be 
paid in ten days. He hath also taken the Negative Oath.” 
This young man greatly distressed his father by quitting his 
studies at Christ Church, Oxford, to join the Royal standard. He 
served under Lord Hertford till the fiercely-contested fight at 
Lansdowne, in 1643, which seems to have amply satisfied his martial 
appetite, for from that date he sought the shelter of his father’s 
roof. But he was not to escape the scrutiny of the local seques- 
trators, when, at the conclusion of the first war, the Falstone 
Committee took his case in hand, As he had no estate of his own, 
and as he was able by way of palliation to exhibit credentials of 
having taken the Covenant in the presence of the minister of St. 
Saviour’s, Southwark, and also the Negative Oath, some of his 
Salisbury neighbours came to his aid, to wit, Humphrey Ditton, 
John Redes, and Robert Good, who, by means of a representation in 
his favour, induced the London Committee to accept £50 from his 
father as a quietus; allowing, apparently, for the £40 already paid. 
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