90 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
above mentioned, who resided at Fasterne, near Wootton Bassett, is 
credited with a fine of £942, and all of them suffered more or less 
under the Commonwealth. After the Restoration Sir Robert was 
made Auditor of the Exchequer, and the King utilised his oratorical 
powers in the House in suppressing opposition to his money demands. 
He and his brother, Edward, the fifth son, figured as wits and minor 
poets in the court of Charles II., to which we may presume they 
were stimulated by the matrimonial alliance of their sister, Elizabeth, 
with John Dryden. Edward was the author of a long poem on 
the war, in ten books, entitled Caroloiades. Philip, the seventh 
son, attended the court of the Princess of Orange till the Restoration, 
when he became a colonel in the army. 
AntHony Huncerrorp, of Black Bourton, Esq., Member for 
Malmesbury. Deserting his place at Westminster, he sat in King 
Charles’s Oxford Parliament, Sir John Danvers succeeding him in the 
Long Parliament. Sir Edward Poole told them that Colonel Fetti- 
place had assured him that Mr. Hungerford would have been carried to 
Oxford by force had he not gone voluntarily. _ The fact was, his estate 
lay near Oxford and would have been liable to plunder otherwise. 
Before long he manceuvred to be captured and sent to London, where, 
after lying for some time in the Tower, he compounded. The fine 
declared was, at a tenth, £10138, at a third, £2532—uncertain which 
of these two sums was levied. Nor is it clear how they could both 
represent the same principal. The final adjustments were in many 
eases eminently capricious. Mr. Hungerford, it is believed, eventually 
paid £1500, through Lord North’s intercession. 
Tuomas Honr, of Longstreet, in the parish of Enford, gentleman. 
His delinquency lay in bearing arms against the Parliament. He 
surrendered himself and took the oaths in October, 1645, but did 
not petition in London till two years later, when he acknowledged 
having been in arms, but after awhile “saw his error” and came 
and submitted himself unto Lieutenant-General Cromwell, at which 
time also he took the National and Negative Oaths, and prepared 
to exhibit his “ particular,” but his estate was claimed by his mother. 
“To all officers and soldiers in the Parliament's service. 
_ “These are to require you to permit the bearer thereof, Thomas Hunt, major, 
