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Che Falstone Day-Pook. 
By J. Wayten. 
(E=OHE object of this paper is to exhibit some of the various 
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methods for raising money put in practice in Wiltshire 
during the Civil War by such of the resident gentry as were 
favourable to the Parliament’s cause.' The first standing Committee 
for the county was organised at the close of the year 1642, in 
pursuance of a Parliamentary Ordinance applicable to the whole of 
England, and levying a weekly assessment of so much in the pound ; 
though this by no means represents the various forms of appeal 
made from time to time as the struggle went on. On the other 
hand, the King also had his Committee. At least he occasionally 
nominated local groups of his friends for a variety of objects in his 
own behalf; but their action was spasmodic and their existence very 
brief. The poor people, meanwhile, whenever this double action 
was put in force, found themselves ground between two millstones. 
If the Royalist visitations were sweeping and desolating, those of 
the Committees were systematic and perennial. 
‘The first Wilts Committee acting for the Parliament comprised 
only the fifteen following names:—Sir Edward Hungerford, of 
Farley ; Sir Edward Baynton, of Bromham; Sir Nevill Poole, of 
Oaksey; Sir John Evelyn, of West Dean; Edward Baynton, of 
Bromham ; Edward Tooker, of Maddington ; Edward Goddard, of 
Marlborough; Thomas Moore, of Heytesbury; Denzil Hollis, of 
Haughton ; Alexander Thistlethwayte, jun., of Winterslowe ; 
Edward Poole [of Wootton Bassett ?] ; John Ashe, of Heytesbury ; 
1 The source from which the matter printed here is derived is the original MS. 
contained in two small vellum-covered folios which were copied by myself some 
forty years ago, when they were in the possession of a professional gentleman at 
Salisbury whose name I do not accurately remember—nor do I know what sub- 
“sequently became of them. 
