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values upon his several parcels of land, all amounting to the said sum of £470, 
and that he may have his letters to the several counties accordingly. What 
favour you shall shew my Lord Cromwell herein you shall oblige. 
‘¢ Your very loving friend, 
“Oxrivek CROMWELL.” 
Mr. Ashe endorses Cromwell’s letter thus :—“ If it appears that 
there be such a mistake as is here alledged, let it be amended as is 
desired. John Ashe.” 
Henry Danvers Eart or Dansy, a native of Dauntesey, in 
Wilts, where also he lies buried, was born in 1573, and lived to see 
the breaking out of the Civil War, dying in January, 1643; described 
as a nobleman “of a magnificent and munifical spirit,’’ and one of 
the most eminent of the Elizabethan statesmen. He commenced 
public life in a military capacity in the Low Countries and in 
France, afterwards served the Queen in Ireland, and at the age of 
twenty-five was said by the Earl of Nottingham to be the best 
’ sea-captain in England. James I. created him Baron of Dauntesey, 
and Charles I. elevated him to the earldom of Danby. His income 
latterly was supposed to be nearly £12,000 a year, equivalent to 
more than £60,000 in modern money (?). His portrait by Vandyke, 
formerly in Lord Orford’s collection, now belongs to W. H. H. 
Hartley, of Lye Grove. 
Earl Danby died before Parliamentary sequestrators sat in 
judgment; but eventually Acton Drake, his executor, had to 
exhibit a “ Particular” of the estate, and a nominal fine of £21,597 
was declared; but the claims of his brother, Sir John Danvers the 
regicide, and of his sister, Lady Katharine Gargrave, having also 
to be investigated and adjusted, nothing positive can be affirmed. 
It will only be necessary in this place to state that the Earl by his 
last will had nominated as heir to the bulk of his vast fortune his 
nephew, Henry Danvers, son of Sir John Danvers by his second 
wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Ambrose Dauntesey, of West Lavington, 
of which more hereafter. Great part of the Earl’s estate lay in 
Oxfordshire. In Wiltshire he held the manors of Rushall, Radborne 
cum Cowfield, part of Bradenstock and Clack, the manors of Whit- 
church cwm Milbourn, and of Lea and Cleverton, parcel of the 
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