The Wiltshire Compounders. 309 
(for which see the history of that town). This was not his final 
quietus in the county, and he seems to have joined the King soon 
after at Oxford. He was certainly there at the time of its surrender 
to Fairfax. All, therefore, that remains to state is the settlement 
of his fine, which immediately followed. He is still described as 
Esq., and not as a knight. 
James Long, of Drayeot, Esq., commanded a regiment in the 
King’s service; he has taken neither of the oaths; was at Oxford 
at the time of its surrender, and is to have the benefit of the articles 
of surrender. He is seised of the manor of Drayeot and other 
lands there, and a yearly rent of bull-rushes growing in the Avon, 
together worth before the troubles £289 13s. 4d. per annum—copy- 
hold at Draycot, £32 7s.—dry rents there, £9 13s. 4d. Mr. Curteen 
and Sir Edward Heron owe him £700, but his own debts are £1600. 
He claims to be allowed a fee-farm rent to the Crown, of which £4 
is a rent to the Church and poor of the parish; also an annuity 
payable to Elizabeth Oldsworth by deed of Sir Walter Long. Also 
he pays £20 a year to the Vicar of Sutton, in lieu of tithes, which 
is but a modus decimandi. Such is his actual estate; but he con- 
siders he has a good title to lands in the forest of Gualties in 
Yorkshire, though he was never in quiet possession, and the deeds 
have been taken from him ; as also to the manor of North Bradley, 
in Wilts, after the decease of Robert Long, his uncle; therefore 
prays a saving to compound for the same when he shall have by law 
recovered them. Fine at two years, £714. 28th November, 1646. 
bP In passing the ordinance for his pardon, the Lords except his 
right to advowsons or presentations to any Church or Chapel; and 
‘stipulate further that the two bonds above-mentioned from William 
-Curteen and Sir Edward Heron having been ordered and allotted to 
John Dove, of Salisbury, Esq., for and towards the reparation of 
his losses and damages sustained through the action of the said 
James Long and others; now, if Mr. Long shall revoke or release 
either of these bonds, then this present composition shall be null 
s 
and void. Lords’ Journals. 6th January, 1648. 
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_ Georce Lows, of Calne, Esq.,M.P. for Calne. The delinquency 
