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of H, Vertue, the Rector, and William Goddard, the churchwarden. 
Such was Mr. Lowe’s share in the military disorders of the first 
_ war; in all which he could truly say that none of his actions were 
| agg ressively hostile to the Parliament. 
‘In estimating his fine it appeared that he was possessor of the 
remainder of a term having fifteen years to run of the prebend and 
parsonage of Calne, holden of the Treasurer of Salisbury, worth 
before the troubles £500 per annum, but with reservations to the 
_ leasor, to the prebend, and to the vicars choral, amountiag to £200, 
worth to himself only £300. He acknowledges £1300 as owing to 
him, but exhibits debts of his own to a still greater amount. Sub- 
sequently he owns to have omitted some small copyhold and chief 
rents belonging to the prebend, when the final award was thus 
decreed :—“ Upon the review, the fine to be settled at a tenth, in 
all £336. 6th November, 1649.” But this was not his only loss. 
A conspicuous friend of the Parliament’s cause in Northamptonshire, 
named John Waters, farming his own estate, fell very early in the 
struggle a prey to the Cavaliers, who swept his entire stock off the 
land, and, getting hold of his person, shut him up in Banbury 
Castle, where he soon after expired. Now, this gentleman owed 
: Mr. Lowe £500, which under the circumstances his brother and 
heir-at-law, William Waters, desired to repudiate. Sergeant Wilde 
being directed by the Parliament to examine and report on the case, 
- May, 1646. 
¥ eo. the interval of the Protectorate, we meet Mr. Lowe 
fo more dist a hundred weet been tenants of the prebend, manor, 
and parsonage of Calne, for the last lease of which he and his 
mother had paid £4000 to the now treasurer, Dr. Edward Davenant, 
and £4000 more in improving the estate ; yet the said Dr. Davenant 
doth now refuse to grant him a new lease (the actual lease expiring 
next Lady-Day), but hath granted a concurrent lease thereof to his 
own son or some other relative. And though orders have actually 
