82 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
neither did he engage at all in the latter war (that of 1646). But 
doubting he might be liable to sequestration, and taking notice of 
the favour intended by the late vote to such as shall discover them- 
selves, he petitioned here (in London) 4th May, 1649. On his 
property, consisting of houses and lands at Chippenham and 
Hardenhuish, a fine of £30 was thereupon levied. As for his 
personal estate in wool, yarn, and cloth, this was already dissipated. 
Humpurey Hencuman, of Sarum, D.D. (afterwards Bishop). 
His delinquency lay in his deserting his habitation and repairing to 
Oxford, where he was at the time of its surrender to Sir Thomas 
Fairfax. He is seised of a freehold for life in right of his wife, who 
is seised thereof for her life as a jointeress from John Lowe, her 
first husband, of and in certain lands and tenements in Dorset and 
Wilts, annual value before the troubles, £100. He is seised of a 
freehold for two lives in being, of the prebend or parsonage of the 
Southport of Grantham, in Lincolnshire, for which he pays £30 
reserved rent to the prebendary, more than which it is worth £180 
per annum. This account of Grantham he subsequently corrects 
by saying that the lease originally made to John Penruddocke and 
Robert Cruys, was by them demised to the compounder and John 
Ryves, to render annually £100 to Elizabeth Curle, late wife of 
Walter, Bishop of Winchester, then to William Curle, their son and 
heir, then to Ellen, the compounder’s late wife. Fine, £200. 
- Henchman, or more properly Henxman, was the appellation of 
the pages of honour attendant at the feast-days of the Order of the 
Garter. Hinxman is the name of a family seated at Little Durnford, 
near Amesbury. Died, 8th August, 1779, the Rev. Humphrey 
Henchman, Prebendary of Salisbury and Rector of Barford St. 
Martin, and of Great Cheverill. 
Barron Hixron, Esq., a recusant (Romanist). The property 
which this gentleman held at Berwick St. John, Donhead St. Mary, 
and Donhead St. Andrew, was seized in 1645 as the estate of Sir 
‘William Smith, of Durham, but discharged in the following year 
on a certificate from Durham that Smith was no delinquent. 
Ratru, Lorp Hopton, of Stratton, of Evercreech, and of Witham 
Friary. This nobleman’s estate lay in Somersetshire, but he also 
