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obtained his due; but the fact is that, as a name of eminence in the 
county, Gawen disappears from that time forward. Mr. Wyndham, 
a descendant of the above, writing in 1746, speaks of “ Henry 
Gawen” as tenant of part of Norrington. Sir Richard Colt Hoare 
says the last of the race was father to Mrs. Roberts, who was living 
at South Newton as recently as 1800. Aubrey asserts that the 
family had held Norrington four hundred and fifty years—that John 
Thynne, of Henry the Highth’s time, the editor of Chaucer, makes 
Gawyn sister’s son to Prince Arthur, and that the antiquity of the 
family is further attested by a mound called Gawen’s barrow, on 
South Down, near Broad-Chalk. 
A petition of Thomas Gawen, dated 12th February, 1651, declares 
that “ Your petitioner having formerly frequented the public exercise 
of God’s worship according to the laws and customs of this Church 
and land, hath of late years been enforced by reason of great age 
and infirmities, to keep his chamber, if not his bed ; whereupon the 
sub-committee of Wilts and Somerset, in which counties your 
petitioner’s small estate lies, have sequestered two-thirds thereof, 
though never so rightly informed of his innocency.” The case was 
ordered to be taken into consideration; but the old gentleman 
appears to have gained nothing by the appeal. 
Sir Joun Gtanvitte, of Broad Hinton, Kt. This eminent 
person was for a long time in co-operation with the patriots ; and 
we learn from Lloyd’s Loyal Sufferers that in 1626 he had suffered 
imprisonment on shipboard for having spoken his mind too freely 
in respect of certain royal prerogatives. But when the dispute with 
the Crown came at length to a “ passage of arms,” Sir John, like 
so many other lawyers, shrank from the unprofessional ordeal, and 
sealed his own condemnation by taking part in what came to be 
termed ‘the Illegal Assizes” at Salisbury and Exeter in 1644, 
For this, he, together with the judges who had acted with him, viz., 
Sir Robert Heath, and Sir Robert Foster, were impeached of high 
treason in the name of the Commons of England, and Glanville, 
kneeling at the bar of the House, was committed to the Tower. 
The above judges, though notoriously baffled at Salisbury, had found 
a more compliant jury farther west, where Captain Robert Turpin, 
