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half of the county, other portions of the Committee were occasionally 
sitting and acting in Marlborough, Malmesbury, Devizes, and 
Salisbury; but I am inclined to think that this was the central 
place of business; for the Falstone treasurers’ accounts deal also 
with financial matters in the north of the county, though to a less 
extent; and further, because the county troops received their pay at 
Falstone; and, after the oceupation of Longford Castle, William 
Ludlow, who commanded the horse, took up his station in and 
around that fortalice. 
The names of some of the Falstone treasurers in succession were :— 
Thomas Cox, Thomas Poulton, Humphrey Ditton, Robert Good, 
and Richard Hill—Salisbury men apparently ; nominated to office 
by the month. The Committee’s clerk was Mr. John Strange, at 
a salary of £8 a month. In 1649 Mr. Strange was succeeded by 
Jonathan Hill. 
When gathering for private use the memoranda here bearing the 
general name of The Falstone Day-Book, I had no expectation of 
their ever coming under the notice of your archeological experts. 
A few miscellaneous entries have in consequence found place, which 
could not now be detached ; but, as all the matters are homogeneous, 
it is hoped no objection will be taken. The verbiage is of course in 
numberless cases abbreviated; but no names are omitted; and the 
whole may form a sort of prelude to the narrative of the final 
settlements effected at Goldsmiths’ Hall, already set forth in our 
Magazine, under the title of Wiltshire Compounders. (See vol. 
xxili., 314; xxiv., 58, 308). To include a transcript of the various 
treasurers’ accounts would have made the affair far too bulky. 
Neither have the charges been recited which were brought against 
some of the resident clergy, by which so many of them were displaced 
from their livings—those charges being creditable to neither party. 
These County Committees had no authority to compound with 
Royalists by levies on real property; but they could deal with 
personals in the form of stock or rent, and re-let sequestered estates. 
A few more explanatory notes must close this introductory chapter. 
2 
“ Delinquency ” meant adberence to the King’s party. A “ Re- 
cusant ” was a Romanist. The word “ parsonage” must be taken 
