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Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 71 
at his own house, and has taken the National Covenant and the late 
oath—had never acted as a sequestrator for the King, was never 
a member of the Commons’ House—nor a popish recusant, nor 
popishly affected—was never a councillor or advocate-at-law, nor 
attorney, nor proctor, nor other officer whatsoever towards the law 
common or civil, or in any office belonging to the State or in the 
Commonwealth. THe is seised in possession of and in messuages 
and lands in the parish of Chute, annual value £3 10s., for which 
his fine at a tenth is £7; a freehold during three lives of other lands 
and tenements there, £15, for which his fine is £22 10s.; another 
freehold there, £1 10s., for which his fine is £2 5s.; personal estate, 
£140, for which his fine is £14; altoyether, £45 15s. He is in- 
debted to Mr. Hancock, of Salisbury, £66; to Thomas Hollis, £66 ; 
and to William Chapman, of Newton, near Newbury, £34; no 
abatement allowed in consequence. 
Wituiam Fisuer, of Liddington, gent. At the commencement 
of the war he consented to act as receiver of contributions for the 
royal army ; but in May, 1645, surrendered to Colonel Devereux, 
at Malmesbury, compounded for his personal estate by paying £40 
to the Wilts Committee, and took both the oaths. His receipt, 
signed by Thomas Goddard, Edward Stokes, Edmund Martyn, and 
William Jesse, professed to purge him from delinquency and from 
sequestration of goods and estate, but he had yet to learn that the 
local committees could not thus liberate real estate. He is seised 
in fee tail of lands in Liddington, yearly value £60 ; a similar estate 
in reversion after twenty years, £70; two other estates there, 
including the mansion house, £160. His personal estate is worth 
£150. Fine, at a tenth, £235. October, 1649. 
THomas Gawen, of Norrington, Esq. No class suffered so 
severely as the Roman Catholics; for though King Charles was 
disposed to assuage the violence of the tempest with which the 
policy of Elizabeth and James had assailed them, this circumstance 
only aggravated the indignation which overtook them as soon as 
the Parliament was triumphant. The Gawens of Wiltshire, for 
example, having been a wealthy family from the Saxon period down 
_ to the close of the sixteenth century, became in the next age all but 
