74 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
an officer in the service of the Parliament, was actually brought to 
the bar as a felon and hanged by Sir John Berkeley, the Governor 
of Exeter. Glanville being now in prison, a petition was presented 
to the Lords by the daughters of Captain Turpin, praying that they 
might have some means for their maintenance allowed them out of 
the estate of the said Sergeant Glanville, which, it is to be presumed, 
was granted. 
Sir John urgently petitioned that his estates should not be se- 
questered till his trial, which the Lords seemed willing to grant, 
but the Commons rejected the appeal. After lying nearly three 
years in confinement, he was allowed to go to Bath for his health’s 
sake, first depositing heavy bail for his appearing, and taking the 
Covenant; but he appears never to have been brought to trial on 
the original count; and his pardon, which is dated 7th August, 
1645, fixes his total fine at £2320.—Lords’ Journals, x., 422. Of 
his estates in Wilts, Devon, and Cornwall, those of Wilts were the 
following :—the demesnes of the manor of Broad Hinton, worth 
per annum £320; old rents there, £20; the farm or demesne of the 
manor of Highway, £124; old rents of said manor, £10; the 
meadow and marsh of Cleavancy, £20; old rents, £10; the farm 
of Escot, adias Earlscourt, £160; the rectory or parsonage of Broad 
Hinton, by lease for two lives, £40; Barbury Down Farm, by lease 
for one life, that of Mr. Richard Goddard, aged about 60, £200; 
messuage and lands at Little Hinton, holden by copy of court-roll 
for three lives, £40. 
Although the principal seat of the Glanvilles was Kilworthy, 
near Tavistock, the old lawyer appears to have retained a strong 
preference for his Wiltshire home; for after the wars he continued 
to live at Broad Hinton, though only the gate-house had survived 
the ruin which he himself brought upon the mansion. This cir- 
cumstance we learn from the following passage in Sir John Evelyn’s 
diary, dated 4th July, 1654:—“‘ We went to another uncle and 
relative of my wife’s, viz., Sir John Glanville, the famous lawyer, 
formerly Speaker of the House of Commons. His seat is at Broad 
Hinton, where he now liveth but in the gate-house, his very fair 
dwelling-house having been burnt by his own hands to prevent the 
