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and received part of the rents. But of late the tenants have been threatened, 
and our agent also disturbed so greatly by one Mr. Player of Kempsford, who 
is oftentimes resident at Warminster, where the estate of Sir Henry Frederick 
Thynne lyeth, that we cannot get in the monies due. Upon the bitter complaints 
now of the tenants, and in order better to collect the arrears due, we could do ne 
less than inform you thereof, desiring you to send for the said Player before you, 
or give what further order shall be thought convenient. Your affectionate 
servants, 
“ Wittram LupLow. NicHoLas GREEN, BENNET SwAINE. 
Micuazt Trpcomsz, of the Devizes, Esq., sometime an attorney-at- 
law. He acknowledges in his petition that he adhered to the forces 
raised against the Parliament, that he acted as a receiver of monies 
in the King’s behalf, and that he was employed in and about the 
Commission of Oyer and Terminer appointed by His Majesty to be 
executed at Salisbury. Being heartily sorry for these his offences, 
he now prays to be admitted to a favourable composition, and to 
receive the benefit of the mercy offered to others, 25th November, 
1645. This and other petitions of Mr. Tidcombe were addressed 
from Ely House, where he had been a prisoner ever since the 11th 
of November, in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, in consequence 
of his not having answered with sufficient promptness the summons 
to appear before the London sequestrators. To prove that he had 
made arrangements to go up before the arrival of the second message 
from London, he procured testimonials from two Devizes friends, 
Daniel White and Edward Seager, and also from Colonel Thomas 
Eyre, the newly-appointed Governor of Devizes Castle after its 
capture by Oliver Cromwell. Imprisonment was felt in his case to 
be a very grievous infliction. He describes his affairs as running to 
ruin—wife and seven children left in an impoverished condition, and 
a long schedule of debts encumbering his action. Recapitulating 
all these facts to his counsel, Mr. Alexander, he earnestly begs him 
not to omit them in his report, terminating his appeal thus :—« Good 
Sir, do me all the lawful favour you can in your report, and you 
- shall be sure to have the prayers of a poor faithful prisoner. MicHarn 
Tivcomsz.” His fine was estimated at £450. A subsequent pro- 
posal seems to have been made to reduce it to £217, but he 
eventually paid the larger sum in September, 1646, At the foot of 
