318 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
Goddard, members of the Wilts Committee, states that they know 
nothing concerning Mr. Richardson which should bring him within 
the compass of delinquency, except his having acted in the capacity 
of servant to his late Majesty at Oxford. Edmund Ludlow also 
wrote in his behalf. Fine at a sixth, on a messuage and yard-land 
at Boreham, £45. August, 1650. 
Tuomas SackvitiE, of Salscombe, Esq. Upon full hearing and 
debate of the matter touching his departing from Edington, in 
Wilts, into the King’s garrison at Oxford, although he allegeth 
that it was for the recovery of his wife’s disease of bleeding, and to 
make use of the library there for his own study, he is nevertheless, 
the Committee of Sequestrators conceive, within the ordinance of 
sequestration ; but regarding the testimonies of his harmless carriage 
and good mezning towards the Parliament, as also the smallness of 
his estate, they recommend him to the Goldsmith’s Hall Committee 
to deal favourably with him. The Goldsmith’s Hall Committee 
fined him £400. His making Edington a place of retreat is ex- 
plained by the fact that the wife of Sir Edward Lewis, of Edington, 
was herself a Sackville, being the daughter of Richard Sackville, 
Earl of Dorset. Sir Edward was her second husband, the first 
being ‘Viscount Beauchamp, son to the Earl of Hertford. 
Tuomas Sapter, of New Sarum, Gent. Petitioned in April 
1646, and acknowledged that he had commanded a troop of horse 
in the King’s service. He was taken prisoner by Colonel Norton, 
in 1643, and exchanged for Captain Arthur, of Weymouth, since 
which time he had not intermeddled with any thing against the 
Parliament. Besides small landed possessions in Corsley, East 
Dean, Wroughton, Lidiard Tregoze, and Fisherton Anger, he had 
long held the office of Register of the Church of Salisbury, worth 
£800 a year; he had also been, in his youth, esquire to the body of 
James I, At the time of his petitioning he was assailed by a 
clamorous crowd of creditors, and had of course lost the aforesaid 
office of register, A moderate fine of £134 was published 25th 
October, 1649. 
