324 ~ The Wiltshire Compounders. 
annuity of £80 to his mother, Mrs. Anne Grimes, and large sums 
due to his brothers and sisters by the will of their father. Further, 
he is £500 in debt, and has paid to the Wilts Committee, first and 
last, £80. Fine, £200, 12th August, 1646. 
Tuomas Srovurton, of Boneham, Esq. One third of this gentle- 
man’s estate, consisting of lands and tenements in the manor of 
Boneham, was forfeited for reeusancy. In his petition, 29th May, 
1655, for leave to compound for the remaining two-thirds, he com- 
plains that for want of keeping of courts in the said manor the houses 
and woods had fallen considerably into deeay. THe paid, as fine, 
£256 13s, 4d. 
_ Witt1am Stourton, Lorp Stourton. His affairs, like the 
majority of the Romanists’, were long unsettled. A document 
dated so late as Juue, 1654, shews that though he had been com- 
prised in the Oxford articles of surrender, yet on the ground of 
recusancy the Government refused to admit him to composition for 
more than two-thirds of his estate, which, ever since that surrender 
had been under sequestration, and the profits taken by the Common- 
wealth, the remainder being confiscated absolutely. A fine was at 
last agreed upon of £1236 19s. 5d., allowance being made for a 
jointure of £66 13s. 4d. to one of his daughters and a rent-charge 
of £300 settled on Mary Petre, the wife of his son Edward (deceasd), 
and £200 a year to Lady Mary Stourton, widow of Sir Thomas 
Longaville. In his “ particular ” he further states that the household 
stuff in his two houses of Stourton and Farnborough, worth £3000, 
had been taken away or spoiled, except some few old beds, tables, 
and other lumber, not worth above £40, and the park at Stourton, 
though stored with deer, is a charge, but little profit. 
In June, 1655, a document was drawn up, signed by Bradshaw, — 
Rushworth, and other of the London Commissioners, stating that 
out of the two-thirds of Lord Stourton’s estate, the profits already 
received by the State since Ist December, 1646, amounted to 
£3800 1s.11d., from which his fine of £1236 19s. 5d. having to 
be deducted, it was now “ Ordered, that £2568 2s. 6d., being. the 
