340 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
person freed from arrests or restraint upon any civil actions or attachments— Yet 
Thomas Shergold, of Hindon, in Wilts, gent., did confederate with the Sheriff of 
Middlesex and with Daniel Marwood and Thomas Gardiner, of Sarum, and put 
an open affront on him by arresting him and carrying him prisoner to the under- 
sheriff then sitting in Westminster Hall. And your petitioner having sold a 
small estate which he had in Wiltshire in order to pay his composition at 
Goldsmith’s Hall, and deposited the money with Mr. Robert Gall, a London 
merchant, one William Moyle, your petitioner’s late servant, taking encourage- 
ment by Shergold’s example, hath attached the said money in Gall’s hand, and 
goes about to condemn it in the sheriff's court. Your petitioner, therefore, prays 
that such reparation may be made him and such punishment inflicted on the 
offenders as your wisdoms may deem agreeable to justice and honour.” 
No further notice occurs. 
Gregory Cromwell, Baron Cromwell of Ockham, the only son of 
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (Henry the Highth’s minister), 
married Elizabeth Seymour, of Wolfhall, sister of Queen Jane 
Seymour, in whose posterity the title of Lord Cromwell remained 
for several generations. This accounts for estates in Wilts being 
held by the Lord Cromwell of the Civil War era, such as Countess 
Farm, near Amesbury, and others. They are referred to in the 
Falstone day book, 3rd October, 1645, and Ist April, 1646. 
The following letter, written in 1646, in behalf of Thomas Lord 
Cromwell, by his kinsman, Oliver Cromwell, was addressed to 
Robert Jenner, M.P. for Cricklade, as a member of the Goldsmith’s 
Hall Committee. From a subsequent letter of Cromwell’s to Jenner, 
and to John Ashe, the Member for Westbury, it would almost seem 
that these two Wiltshire gentlemen were the Duumviri of the Court 
of Sequestrations. The letter here following has never yet been 
published. 
The Lieutenant-General Oliver Cromwell, ‘To my loving friend Mr. 
Jenner, at Goldsmith's Hall. 29th October, 1646. 
“Sir, My lord Cromwell upon the putting in of his ‘ particular’ into Gold- 
smith’s Hall, knowing what the whole value of his estate amounted unto yearly, 
gave it in at, £470 in general ; which was the true value of the whole lying in several 
counties. But not being so perfect in the particular values of the several parcels 
of his estate, having trusted it constantly to the managing of others, did give in his 
lands in Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire at £350 per annum, whereas the 
true value is but £255, and his lands in Wiltshire but £120, whereas the true 
value is £215 per annum, both amounting to the said sum of £470, for which 
he compounded. My Lord desires that he may have liberty to set the several 
