Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 95 
Dr. Hyde, Bishop of Salisbury, brother of the great Lord Chancellor 
Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and she lost her fortune in the South Sea 
year, 1720. She is also a distant cousin of their late Majesties, 
Queen Mary and Queen Anne, whose mother was Lady Anne Hyde, 
Duchess of York, whose royal consort was afterwards King James 
II. A lively instance of the mutability of all worldly things, that 
a person related to two crowned heads should, by a strange caprice 
of fortune, be reduced to live in an almshouse. She retains her 
senses in a tolerable degree; and her principal complaint is that she 
has outlived all her friends, being now upwards of an hundred years 
of age.” A subsequent notice in the Annual Register describes her 
death in 1772, at the age of a hundred and eight years. 
Bernyamin Jay, of Hackleston, Gent. Was one of those who 
allowed themselves to be implicated in the measure already frequently 
referred to in these papers as the Illegal Assizes. His own account 
of the affair is as follows :— 
“Your petitioner having for divers years in the time of peace served in the 
grand jury for Wilts; and when the King’s commission came in 1644, being 
summoned as formerly, your petitioner fearing inconveniences for absenting 
himself, for which he was several times fined by the commissioners, and being 
much terrified by their rigorous proceedings, he did unhappily serve. Your 
petitioner is a man of very mean estate, much indebted, and his poor wife at 
home grievously sick and languishing. In humble acknowledgment of his said 
offence, unwillingly committed, he doth humbly crave your honors’ charitable 
and favourable censure, to which he will readily submit.” 
He held the manor of Fittleton, with old rents to the same be- 
longing, worth £4 per annum; a portion of the tithes there at a 
fee-farm rent of £3 5s., worth more £8; a freehold at Hackleston, 
£12, over and above the reserved rent of 23s. 4d.; and he had 
already given the Wilts Committee £20, in respect of his personal 
estate. The said committee do return that his old rents are “ ex- 
tended” upon a statute of £400. His petition was presented in 
March, 1646, at which time he also took the National Covenant 
and the Negative Oath. Fine, £28. 
' Wituram Kent, of Boscombe, Esq. Was in arms against the 
Parliament during the first war, and rode in the troop of Sir George 
Vaughan, the Sheriff for Wilts. He also served in the “ Illegal 
