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Grorcre Lorp Cuannos, of Sudeley Castle, took the oaths and 
delivered himself up to Lord Grey, Speaker pro tem. of the House 
of Lords, in April, 1644. His estates lay principally in Gloucester- 
shire. In Wilts he was seised in the manor of Pirton, valued at 
£105 per annum. His fine, at a tenth, was estimated at £4976, 
but an attempt was made to lay it at a third, thus raising it to 
£12,440, a scheme which his lordship had the good fortune to upset. 
He came in, he says, within a month after the Declaration of 
the Ist of March, 1644, and the Committee of Gloucestershire 
acknowledged that had they not been bound by rules they would 
have discharged the petitioner from paying anything; but con- 
sidering themselves responsible, they concluded his fine at a tenth, 
as agreeable to the rules of the Propositions applied to those coming 
in after and not having the benefit of the said Declaration. To 
this Lord Chandos submitted, and having paid down a moiety and 
entered into a bond for the rest, the sequestration was discharged 
from his estate. Now, the rule of the propositions for paying a 
third, he contended, was applicable only to such members of either 
House as rendered not themselves before the last day of October, 
1644, whereas he had come in long before the first of that month ; 
he therefore desired the justice of the Committee, &c. His fine was 
settled at the lower figure; and the Parliament moreover voted that 
he should receive compensation for the destruction of his castle at 
Sudeley, and that £1000 of his fine should be respited till the House 
had satisfaction concerning the same; to which end the Committee 
of State were directed to make an estimate of the damage. 
Joun Cuappet, of Earnham, in the county of Lincoln, clerk, M.A. 
His delinquency was shown by his having left his dwelling-place, 
and gone to live in Newark while it was a King’s garrison. On 
his submission to the Parliament, at the conclusion of the first war, 
he took the Covenant and also the National Oath on the 23rd 
July, 1646. Touching his estate in Wilts it appeared that John 
Penruddocke, Esq., and William Smegergill were trustees for the use 
of him, John Chappel, to hold during the life of his wife, Elizabeth, 
and of his two sons, John and Edward, of and in lands and tene- 
ments in the towns and fields of Coombe and West Harnham, both 
