106 The Rising in t%e West, A.D. 1655. 



parish generally, and that on £250 is distributed in cash amongst 

 forty of the deserving poor. 



It is remarkable that all that is remembered of this family is that 

 they lived at what is now Mr. Sydney Hancock's farm, at Farley- 

 Wick, and that the younger kept a pack of beagles. 



It has to be admitted that, although we have been connected with 

 the Bohuns, the De V Isles, the Dunstanvilles, the Seymours, the 

 Longs, and others, yet, unless it be the mysterious Roger Huggitt, 

 we have not produced persons of any other than of village note ; on 

 the other hand we present a remarkable instance of a purely village 

 community, unchanging and little affected by the times, the names 

 and families still abiding amongst us being those that have so abided 

 from the earliest recorded times. 



[To be continued.'] 



e ^i.$inj tit % Wml %^^ 1655. 



To the Editor of the Wiltshire Archaological Magazine. 



Dear Sir, 



To-day, for the first time, my attention has been directed to a paper by 

 Sir George Duckett, in the 55th Number of the Wilts ArchcBological Magazine, 

 on the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. Whilst thanking him for his, I fear, 

 too complimentary observations, I would beg to observe that he is in error in 

 assumino- that I omitted to notice the informations (excipe Eichard Rowe) which 

 he gives in detail. 



If reference be made to Wiltshire ArchcBological Magazine, vol. xiii., pp. 

 173, 178, and 186, it will be found that substantially they are utilised. 



As I mentioned in Wiltshire Archceotogical Magazine, vol. xv. p. 236, Mr. 

 Birch's edition of the Thurloe Papers was constantly with me ; and there all the 

 papers mentioned by Sir George Duckett will be found. Eowe's and Batchelor's 

 information, vol. 3, p. 630 ; Carter's p. 634 ; Holy's, p. 655, and the rest, p. 648 

 of the same volume. 



I am, 



Your'a faithfully, 



W. W. RAVENHILL. 



The Temple, London, E.G., 

 August 15th, 1881. 



H. F, BULL, Printer and Publisher, 4, Saint John Street, DeyizeB. 



