96 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
Assizes”’ of 1644, but declares that he was enrolled in that com- 
mission without his privity or consent, at a time when he was 
occupied in his regiment. In a year’s time after he took a different 
view of his position, paid £60 as a quietus to the Wilts Committee, 
£75 to Colonel Ludlow, besides delivering him a horse worth £26, 
and finally took the National Covenant and the Negative Oath. 
He is seised of a freehold in the manor of Boscombe, remainder 
to his wife, Rachel, remainder to the heirs of his body, £160 per 
annum; old rents there, £5; a term having sixteen years to run of 
and in the rectory of Durrington, worth, after all outgoings, £55 ; 
remainder of a term in Charlton manor, worth to him before the 
troubles, £7. And he is in debt £1000. His fine, at a tenth, was 
at first declared to be £572, reduced to £502. 
Boscombe House and estates remained in this family till 1733, 
when John Kent sold them for £12,000 to Robert Eyre, of New 
House, in Whiteparish, Esq., but as the Eyre family continued to 
reside at New House, the Boscombe mansion was let successively to 
the Hon. Morgan Vane and to Charles Henry, Earl of Mountrath. 
It was afterwards used as an occasional hospital for persons inoculated 
with the small pox, and about 1780 was entirely taken down by 
Samuel Eyre, then lord of the manor. The old villagers described 
it to Mr. Matcham as a large and handsome building; but beyond 
this their powers of descriptive delineation failed. 
Wirtiam Kenyon, of Box, Gent. Appears to have lain under 
the imputation of recusancy, and to have suffered in consequence the 
confiscation of a third part of his real estate. His petition to com- 
pound for the remainder is based upon the Act of 1653. Mr. 
Reading is ordered to report on his case. No subsequent notice. 
Oliver was now taking in hand the cases of long delayed justice, 
and enforcing prompt settlement. See the case of Lord Arundel. 
Joun Kitson, of Semington, Gent. Had been in arms against 
the Parliament; bnt coming in upon the articles of Oxford, and 
taking both the accustomed oaths, escaped with a fine of £45. 
Witt1am Levert, of Savernak, in Wilts, otherwise of Mazefield, 
in Sussex, Esq., Page of the Bedchamber, or Page of the Back 
Stairs to Charles I.; he was also styled “ one of the Prince’s 
