Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 93 
ninety-nine years, if three lives shall so long live, issuing out of 
messuages and lands in Even-Swindon, in the tenure of Peter 
Kibblewhite, of the yearly value, before the troubles, of £26 in 
present rent. If out of lease it would be worth £40 over and above 
the rent reserved. A like estate in lands and tenements in Swindon 
in the tenure of Swithin Ady and Mrs. Ady, widow, for the life of 
Swithin Ady, yielding £10; if out of lease would be worth £30 
more. A like estate in sixteen acres there of arable land, in the 
tenure of Alexander Hale and Oliffe Tomkins, widow; if out of 
lease would be worth £40 more than the present reserved rent of £2. 
The debts mentioned in the said conveyance with which these lands 
are charged amount to £800, making, with interest still due, £1100. 
He is possessed for so many years of a term of sixty years as he shall 
live, remainder to his wife, reversion in fee to Robert Hyde, an 
infant, in the rectory or impropriate parsonage of Dinton, so holden 
under the yearly rent of £20, over and above which it was formerly 
worth de claro £80, now not above £50. As to his personal estate, 
it has been so plundered that he has little left besides three kine 
and two pigs, which, together with bedding and household stuff, 
may perhaps be worth about £50. Edward Hyde, of Norbury, 
owes him £100 on bond, due these sixteen years past. Sergeant 
Hyde ends by expressing the hope that the committee will discharge 
him altogether. His affair was not settled till 1648, when the fine, 
at two years’ revenue, was declared to be £288, with £10 additional 
on the £100 debt. 
Sir Robert subsequently came by the demise of his brother, 
Lawrence, s.p.m., into possession of the Heale House and estate in 
the Amesbury valley, the spot where Charles II lay concealed after 
the battle of Worcester. With these he also inherited a variety of 
interesting heirlooms, consisting of jewelry and pictures from the 
Stuart family, indicative of the relationship of the Hydes with the 
Crown which had been brought about by the marriage of Lord 
Clarendon’s daughter with James II.; and he appears to have been 
very solicitous that the landed estate containing so memorable a 
feature as Heale House should, together with the aforesaid relics, 
always belong to a Hyde, and finally revert to an Earl of Clarendon, 
