344 The Falstone Day- Book. 
Robert Jennour, of Meysey ; William Wheeler, of Westbury ; and 
John White [of Grittleton ?]. 
The town of Malmesbury, as the spot in the county the most 
susceptible of fortification, became at first the most attractive place 
of meeting; but in the course of a few months the Committee was 
greatly reinforced, in order to secure the combined object of main- 
taining a garrison at Malmesbury and securing the county generally. 
The names constituting this enlarged Committee are all set forth at 
page 637 of the sixth vol. of the Lords’ Journals,and are as follows :— 
Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery; William, Earl of 
Salisbury ; Philip, Lord Herbert; Charles, Lord Cranbourne ; 
Denzil Hollis, Esq.; Sir Edward Hungerford ; Sir Francis Popham ; 
Sir Neville Poole; Sir Edward Baynton; Edward Baynton, Alex- 
ander Popham, Walter Long, Edward Poole, Robert Jennour, 
Thomas Hodges, Richard Whitehead, Thomas Moore, John Ashe, 
Robert Nicholas, William Wheeler, Philip Smith, and Edward Ashe, 
Esquires; Sir John Danvers; Edmund Ludlow, sen.; Edmund 
Ludlow, jun.; Alexander Thistlethwayte, William Sadler, Edward 
Goddard, Thomas Bennet of Norton, Robert Hippisley, and Edmund 
Warneford, squires; John Goddard, Edward Martin, Gabriel 
Martin, Robert Long of Whaddon, Thomas Goddard, Edward 
Stokes, Richard 'Talboys, Richard Gifford, William Jesse, Humphrey 
Ditton, Thomas Bailey, Robert Good, and Robert Brown, gentlemen. 
Of this body three or more might at any time constitute a 
quorum, thus enabling them to act in sections in different parts of 
the county, as the exigencies of the war might require. Eventually 
they seem to have thought they would be more out of harm’s way 
in a fortified house than in a town; and accordingly made choice of 
Falstone House, a little south of Wilton (the property of Sir George 
Vaughan). In this they were undoubtedly right; for in fact 
Malmesbury, as well as Marlborough and Devizes, was taken and 
re-taken half-a-dozen times in the course of the war. This es- 
tablishment was made in the spring of 1645. In the autumn of 
the same year Longford Castle, having been reduced by Cromwell, 
was occupied in a similar manner. 
While this Falstone conclave dealt principally with the southern 
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