854 The Falstone Day- Book. 
rents becoming due from his two estates of Chisenbury and Sedghill, and £10 
more for his personals—with this provision, that he is to have his horses 
restored to him. He had been a captain in the King’s army. See further 
under date 4th March, 1648.] 
2rd November. The case of the widow Eleanor Trimbey attested by Col. 
Edmund Ludlow, and his Sergeant, Sam. Adams. The Committee sitting at 
Salisbury are urged to allow her 2s. 6d. a week. 
4th November. Stephen Hurst, of Whiteparish, gent., acted as a grand 
juryman at the Illegal Assizes. He has paid £20 as composition for his stock, 
and now adds £8 on his rents till Michaelmas, being greatly indebted. 
Sir Francis Dowse, of Wallop—we having seized eleven hundred and odd 
sheep upon his farm at Lower Collingbourn, Mr. Edmonds, of Britford, and 
Mr. Holmes, of Houghton, have been before us and agreed as follows. They 
have delivered in to the use of this garrison two hundred sheep, valued at 
£100, also £50 in money, They are to drive the residue of the sheep to the 
said farm at Collingbourn there to remain with the rest of the stock and 
goods without embezzlement, until Sir Francis shall have made his composition 
in London, for performance of which they have given bond of £500. Signed, 
Robert Edmonds, William Holmes. 
6th November. William White, in the’behalf of his father, a recusant, hath 
compounded for one year for his living at Plaitford and his stock and corn 
on the land, for the sum of £15. 
10th November. Francis Swanton, of Sarum, gent. His estate and stock 
being sequestered and inventoried, the yearly value is £30. The stock is worth 
£100. [He had been formerly Clerk of the Assize, and he acted in the affair 
of the Illegal Assizes.] 
Seized of last Michaelmas rent of Dr. Nicholas’ parsonage at Dean £32, 
which his tenant, Thomas Collins, hath given. bond to pay us on 18th November. 
—Received of Richard Woodford for timber of the Dean’s, £4 10s.—paid to 
William Stone, the commissioner. 
19th November. Robert Chandler, son of the minister at Wilton, hath been 
before us for his delinquency to subscribe £40, to be paid in ten days; and 
also to take the Negative Oath. [This young man had quitted his studies at 
Oxford to join the Royal army.]| 
Mrs. Toope gives £5 on account of her ecbeni’y means at nei? Mr. 
Augustine Goldsborough acting as security. 
21st November, William Lamb, in behalf of Andrew Bowerman, of Stratford, 
clerk, compounds for the stock and personal estate for fourscore pounds. The 
wheat sown upon forty-four acres is included in this composition—Lamb further 
paid £40 for one year’s rent of Mr. Bowerman’s farm, parsonage, and mill 
there. \ 
