78 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
till 1780, when Richard Goddard, his grandson, paid up the arrears. 
Ricuarp Gopparp, of New Sarum counsellor-at-law. At the 
commencement of the war this gentleman raised a troop of horse in 
Hampshire for the King, but was taken prisoner by Sir William 
Waller at the garrison of Christchurch, near the close of the year 
1644, after which he laid down his arms and resided at Sarum. 
His great offence lay in his taking part in the commission of oyer 
and terminer presented at Sarum, the affair commonly referred to as 
“the Illegal Assizes.” To purge himself as far as possible, Mr. 
Goddard took the Negative Oath in 1645 and the National Covenant 
in 1646, in the presence of William Barton, minister. 
He is seised of a term of ninety-nine years, if he live so long, in 
a farm called Birchenwood, at Bramshaw, worth £40 per annum. 
He possesses lands and tenements at Eling and Minshed, in Hants, 
worth £40 per annum. He enjoys £300 a year in right of his wife, 
Hester, relict of Robert Mason, of Hants, less by annuities of £15 
to each of the five children of the said Robert Mason, making in 
all £75. And in case Lady Anne Beauchamp survive Robert 
Nicholas, of All Cannings, then during her life he enjoys £400 a 
year from lands there. He is £2000 in debt, he has twelve children 
to support ; and his personal estate, worth £5000 before the wars, 
is all gone. His fine was £862 10s., being estimated at a third, 
“he being a counsellor-at-law.” Dated 12th December, 1646. 
The contingent benefit mentioned above as derivable from the All 
Cannings farm, turned out to be a complicated question, drawing 
from the Devizes Committee a long certificate which may well be 
spared the reader. 
Str TuEeopaLtp Gorass, of Ashley, Kt. He went and sat with 
the Junto at Oxford as M.P. for Cirencester; but he declares that 
he was purposely absent from the sitting which voted the Parliament 
at Westminster traitorous. In May, 1644, when Massey took 
Malmesbury, he freely surrendered himself and was sent up prisoner 
to London, where he has ever since remained ; therefore believes he 
ought to be adjudged to pay only a tenth, having surrendered before 
the last day of October, 1644, the time limited for coming in. He 
hath taken both the oaths. So long as he sat in the Parliament at 
