92 The Wilishire Compounders. 
political reformer, Henry Hunt, of Chisenbury, Esq. In his own 
memoirs, published while he was a prisoner in Ilchester gaol, he 
correctly describes the part which his ancestor had taken in the 
Penruddocke affair, including his remarkable escape from that same 
prison in female disguise, all of which is amply ratified by Thurloe’s 
papers; but he ignores his ancestor’s previous action in the Civil 
War, and he is clearly at fault in the matter of sequestration, His 
narrative is to the following effect:—that Colonel Thomas Hunt, after 
escaping from Ilchester Gaol and finding his way to Holland, suffered 
the confiscation of his entire estate; and though returning at the 
Restoration in the same vessel with Charles II. he never recovered 
ap acre, and only escaped absolute indigence by retiring to his 
estate at Enford, which the agents of Cromwell had overlooked. 
The agents of Cromwell, had they resolved on seizing it, were not 
likely to overlook a property which, as shewn above, had been 
publicly sequestered and then redeemed. The most credible view 
of his case seems to be that, in order to preserve Enford as the 
patrimonial domain, he had sold his other estates to meet the fine at 
Goldsmith’s Hall; and that Cromwell’s agents took nothing from 
him—in consideration, perhaps, of the elder Mrs. Hunt’s claim. 
Siz Rosert Hypr, of Dinton, Sergeant-at-law, M.P. for 
Salisbury. The delinquency charged against this gentleman was 
that he left his dwelling in 1644 and resided at Oxford while that 
city was a garrison for the King. He is to have the benefit of the 
articles of the surrender thereof, as by Sir Thomas Fairfax’s certifi- 
cate of 25th June, 1646, doth appear. He hath taken neither the 
Negative Oath nor the Covenant, but prays to be exempted upon 
the said articles and vote of the House of Commons pursuant. 
He is seised of a freehold for life, remainder to his wife for her 
life, being her jointure, remainder to his brother, Frederick Hyde, 
and others (sureties for him for divers of his debts for the term of 
sixty years for their discharge), remainder in fee to the right heirs 
of the compounder, with liberty to make leases for life or for twenty- 
one years, and a clause of revocation upon discharging the debts of 
the grantors or by his otherwise securing the same. He is thus 
seised of and in certain improved rents reserved upon leases for 
