856 The Falstone Day-Book. 
Christopher Brathwayte, of Sarum, subscribes upon the Propositions six 
muskets at 30 shillings apiece, and £4 10s. in money; and in testimony of 
his affection to the Parliament hath taken the Covenant, The money was 
paid through Mr. Commissioner Stone. 
Ist December. Dr. Hyde’s parsonage at Wiley being sequestered, his brother 
Frederick Hyde, bath been here and paid £20; but no composition is yet made. 
3rd December. John Call came before us in behalf of Sir Henry Compton, 
and is become tenant to the State for this year until Michaelmas for the old 
rents of Sir Henry in Grimstead and Plaitford, amounting to £20 4s., the third 
part whereof is allowed to Sir Henry, and the other two parts John Call is to 
pay for the use of the State at Lady-Day and Michaelmas. Mr. Call is also 
tenant for the manor and demesnes at Plaitford, for coppices at Moore farm, at 
Grimstead, and at Bramshaw, now to be cut,—at 40 shillings an acre, being on 
the whole £82. Same terms as above. [Sir Henry Compton, of Brambletye, in 
Sussex, was described as a recusant, but not in arms. | 
3rd December. John Oakford, of Heytesbury, bailiff, acted at the Mlegal 
Assizes, by summoning grand jurymen; but as he did it through fear and 
ignorance and hath now taken the Covenant, we accept £10 for his delinquency, 
and also as his five and twentieth part. 
Mr. George Howe [of Wishford ?] hath subscribed upon the Propositions £100, 
half to be paid in ten days, the rest within a month. He formerly paid £100 
to Col. Ludlow and £35 10s. to Sir Edward Hungerford, besides two horses 
armed, as appears by several tickets under their hands. 
Ath December. Christopher Bowman engageth to pay for the use of the State 
the “old rent” belonging to the prebend of Coombe and Harnham, viz., £30 for 
the year ending next Lady-Day. Mr. Chappel is the prebendary. 
8th December. William Clarke, of Bishopstone, hath appeared before us, and 
been fined 40 shillings for speaking threatening words. 
Captain Bockland’s farm at Standlynch being sequestered, is now let for this 
year until Michaelmas unto Robert Lincoln for threescore and ten pounds. He 
is to have the sown corn and that in the barns, and all the benefit and profit of 
the farm, excepting the woods and underwoods, which he is not to meddle with 
but for necessarv uses about the farm, excepting also the waters and benefit of 
fishing; and to leave all in husbandlike manner and sort. Thomas Brown, of 
Bodenham, rents the fishery for six pounds a year. [A subsequent inquisition 
reports as follows, in respect of Walter Bockland, aged 28, and Helen, his wife :— 
We cannot find he was ever convicted of recusancy. He made his composition 
at Goldsmith’s Hall, and hath since done nothing to bring him within the 
Ordinance for Sequestration. Dated in 1652 by the principal sequestrators then 
acting in South Wilts, viz., William Ludlow, Nicholas Green, and Bennet 
Swayne. ] 
9th December. Timothy Pickover, of Winterbourn Gunner, clerk, compounds 
