Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 343 
T am taken up every afternoon until seven or eight at night upon the business at 
Goldsmith’s Hall, and so have not time to wait upon the Committee at Haber- 
dasher’s Hall. Wherefore I pray you to take care of Mr. Edward Yerbury’s 
business; and if there be necessity that he pay more than already he hath paid, 
let me know what it is, and upon what grounds; and I shall take care in it, since 
he is not able to travel. 
‘In the next place, I pray you to take notice of this enclosed paper, and take 
a record thereof; for now Mr. Edward Lewis is to be discharged from your 
Committee for having done what is here certified by that Committee of the 
county where his estate lyeth. I pray, keep the certificate safe that it be not 
lost. And in doing right and favour to my friends, you will oblige, 
‘Your assured friend, 
“Jonn AsHx.”’ 
Preparatory to making his peace with the Parliament Mr. 
Yerbury took both the required oaths. His fine was adjudged at 
£183 1ls.11d., but he appears to have paid £190. The name 
Yerbury crops up not unfrequently during the war. At the treaty 
of Uxbridge, in 1644, William Yerbury was a gentleman in the 
train of Lord Seymour, of Trowbridge, who appeared on the King’s 
side. On the other hand, William Yerbury is a name occurring in 
the Wilts Committee acting in the Parliament’s behalf. Yerbury 
was the name of one of Major-General Skippon’s chaplains. Com- 
mons’ Journals, iv., 838. There were some Yerburys, also, among 
the early Quakers, One more of the name demands mention in 
this place, as he was possibly allied to the last-mentioned compounder. 
This was John Yerbury, of Trowbridge, gent., probably a minor and 
living in his father’s house, for he is described as holding nothing 
more than personal property worth £10. He nevertheless had to 
sustain a fine of £1 13s.4d. This was in 1650, four years later 
than Mr, Edward Yerbury’s affair. 
On the Ist of May, 1646, it is Ordered by the House, That out 
of the fines or compositions of or for the estates of Robert Long. 
Edward Ernlé, and Edward Yerbury, of the County of Wilts, 
Esquires, the sum of £500 be paid to Mr. Robert Jennour, one of 
the Members of this House, towards his losses sustained by the 
enemy in the said county. 
Joun Youna, of Durnford, Esq. He rode in arms three months 
