3840 Lhe Wiltshire Compounders. 
daughter married an ancestor of Lord Malmesbury. From her also 
descended the late W. Lisle Bowles, the modern Vicar of Bremhill, 
who in consequence assumed the arms of both Davenant and Townson. 
The other children, it might be difficult to trace. 
Epwarp Watts, of Trowbridge, gentleman. Was in arms 
against the Parliament, but rendered himself in November, 1645, 
when he took the Negative Oath at Gray’s Inn, in the presence of 
Isaac Reynolds, the chaplain, and soon after the National Covenant 
also. Inhabiting a part of the County of Wilts lying under the 
power of the King’s army and near unto Farley Castle, he acknow- 
ledges that he took up arms there, as a trooper, for His Majesty, 
where he continued to serve about twelve months; but some time 
before the said castle was taken by the Parliament’s forces, he laid 
down his arms and came into their quarters. He craves pardon for 
his said error, and prays to be admitted to such.reasonable compo- 
sition as shall satisfy the Committee without ruining him. He has 
no real estate in lands, but only a personal estate in goods and 
chattels, worth £500. Fine, at a tenth, £50. First and last he 
paid £80. 
Taomas Wanktyy, of Westbury, gentleman. He adhered unto 
the forces raised against the Parliament during the first war; he 
petitioned in February, 1651, and saith that he was never sequestered, 
He holds for life of the Countess of Marlborough (the reversion 
being in John Ashe, Esq.), a parcel of pasture, called Sheephouse 
Lease, otherwise Great Shewells, containing twenty-two acres—also 
a meadow in Westbury, called Little Mead, containing three acres, 
worth per annum £29, John Ashe confirms the above declaration 
in a letter dated from Trowbridge. Fine, at a sixth, £58, adjudged 
ord June, 1651. 
Armiczer Warner, of Salisbury, Esq. In reply to an inquisition 
issued by the London sequestrators in 1653, the Wilts Committee 
beg them to state explicitly where the “ estate” lies which Mr. 
Warner is said to have purchased in this county; for, by all the 
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