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year out of the estates of Francis Lord Cottington and Ulick Earl 
of St. Albans :— 
“ Be it enacted that he be actually possessed and seised of the manors of 
Hanworth and Feltham, in the county of Middlesex, late the inheritance of 
Francis Lord Cottington; the manors of Fonthill, alias Nether-Fonthill, 
Fonthill-Gifford, Fonthill-Charter-house, Fonthill Delawarre, East Hatch, Week, 
and Fernhill, all in Wilts; the advowson of the Church of Fonthill; and the 
enclosed parks, lands, woods, and hereditaments either in Wilts of Ashellsdown ; 
the manor of Bluberry, in Berks, Freemantle Park, in Hants ; Brewham and 
Breweombe Walk and Lodge, in Frome Selwood, lately divided from Selwood 
Forest. Also the manors of Timberwood and Raynhurst, in Kent, with the 
tenements in Eastchalk and Westchalk there. Somerhill Park, at Tunbridge 
(late the inheritance of Ulick Earl of St. Alban’s, a papist now in arms in 
Ireland). To have and to hold in as ample and beneficial a manner as the said 
Lord Cottington, Ulick Earl of St. Albans, or any person or persons in: trust for 
either of them, enjoyed or might have enjoyed the same before their respective 
delinquencies.” 
We have now to picture to ourselves the ex-President seeking to 
recruit his broken health by perambulating the beautiful domain of 
which he had become the owner. He was at Fonthill when the 
news reached him of Richard Cromwell’s deposition, and of the 
restoration of the Long Parliament; and, anxious to take part in 
the revival of his beloved Commonwealth, he hastened to London, 
where in a few weeks he expired, in November, 1659. 
Epwarp Cresset, of Marlborough, Esq., M.A., of Oriel College, 
Oxford, and a practiser of physic. As a prominent Royalist he 
compounded at an early date for “delinquency ” with the county 
committee, to what amount uncertain, but he escaped the ordeal of 
Goldsmith’s Hall. His epitaph in St. Peter’s, which describes him 
as a most affectionate son of the Church of England, states that he 
had bequeathed £160 for the equal and perpetual benefit of the 
ministers of the two Churches of St. Peter and St. Mary, so long 
as they should continue as then by law established, but when 
otherwise, then to go to the almshouse in the Marsh. He died in 
1698, at the age of a hundred and seven years, 
Tsomas Lorp Cromwett, Baron of Ockham, in Surrey, petitioned 
the Peers in November, 1646 :— 
“Shewing, that whereas your petitioner, being a peer of this realm, ought by 
the laws of the land and the undoubted customs of the kingdom to have his 
