76 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
John Aubrey, the Wiltshire antiquary, tells us that when an 
elder son was disinherited the general belief was that, sooner or 
later, ill-luck would overtake the favoured son. A canny lawyer 
like Sir John Glanville was not, perhaps, very likely to resign his 
wealth in deference to a popular superstition ; but constantly recog- 
nising, as he must have done in his professional practice, the sup- 
posed inherent claims of first-born children, he would have stood in 
something like a false position had he retained the family estates 
after his brother’s reformation. 
This elder brother, Francis, thus restored, married Elizabeth, 
daughter of William Crymes (of Devonshire ?), whose granddaughter 
carried the estates into the family of Manaton, of Tavistock. 
Neither did the descendants of Sir John himself long maintain the 
family name and honours; for soon after 1700 the Wiltshire estates 
were sold to Thomas Bennet, Esq., of Salthrop, M.P. for Marl- 
borough, and passed in succession through his daughter, Mrs. Pye 
Bennet, then again to a daughter, the wife of Thomas Calley, of 
Burderop, lastly to his son, John James Calley, who in 1839 sold 
them to John Parkinson, of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, who, it was 
discovered at his death (as stated in the Devizes Gazette, 4th March | 
1858) had purchased and held them in trust for the Duke of 
Wellington, in whose descendants it is presumed they are now vested. 
Ricoarp Gopparp, of Swindon, Esq. The papers respecting his 
fine contain sundry affidavits, made by himself and others, and 
corroborated by the Wilts Committee sitting at Devizes, to the 
following general effect. It was without his knowledge that Mr. 
Goddard, at the commencement of the war, was by His Majesty 
nominated with others in commission to uphold the Royal forces in 
the county of Wilts. He was naturally averse to occupy so in- 
vidious a position; but the earnest solicitations of his neighbours, 
who looked upon him as a person capable of moderating by his 
councils the severity of the times, induced him to sit once in the 
said commission at Marlborough. His efforts were so far successful 
as to occasion the removal of levies to the amount of £10,000 im- 
posed by the Kiny on the north part of Wilts; and when subse- 
quently nominated to a similar commission in fellowship with Robert 
