358 The Falstone Day-Book. 
closes there, now let to William St. Lowe and Henry Ffezard; and is become 
tenant to the state for the same at the rent of £100, and hath liberty granted 
for the sale of coppice or underwood to the extent of nine acres. Amberleaze, a 
tenement late in the possession of one Bodenham, is included in this grant. 
(Subsequent entry.) That Amberleaze being demised for three lives, for which 
the Committee have received £150 as fine, £20 of the rent be abated. : 
17th December. Henry Mitchell, of Witchbury, tenant to Sir Edward Alford ; 
his last half-year’s rent, £40, he is to pay speedily, besides his charges for 
quarterings. 
James Parham, of Stratford, gent. In regard of the weakness of his estate 
and his having taken the Covenant, we accept £20 in discharge of his delinquency 
—abating thirty shillings for hay for the [county] troop when they lay at Sarum. 
He was a grand juryman at the Illegal Assizes. 
18th December. William Gauntlet in behalf of Mr. Nicholas, clerk, undertakes 
to pay £18 15s. for last Michaelmas half-year’s rent of the parsonage of Winter- 
bourn, besides taxes and quarterings of soldiers. 
19th December. Mr. Richard Green, of Meere, hath taken the Covenant, and 
for his delinquency compounds for £130. He hath already subscribed £20. He 
held correspondence with the King’s party, as appears by his own confession. 
23rd December. Thomas Grove, of Salisbury, hath taken the Covenant ahd 
subscribed one good horse of the value of £10, to be sent in by Candlemas. 
26th December. Christopher Brathwayte is become tenant to the State for a 
garden of Mr. John Penruddocke, of Hale, at 40 shillings. And William Smith 
holds the Dolphin inn, belonging to Mrs. Jane Penruddocke, at £8. 
[Upon complaints made in London as to the management of delinquents’ estates, 
two of the Wilts Committee, together with Mr. Coles, the Salisbury sequestrator, 
are ordered to attend the Committee for advance of moneys, and explain. ] 
John Hancock, of Coombe, Esq., being questioned for his delinquency, he 
having taken the King’s Oath of Association, now takes the Covenant, and sends 
in two fat oxen worth £16, and twenty bushels of wheat at four shillings the . 
bushel, making altogether £20. 
27th December. Mr. Thomas Newland, a captain in the King’s army, now 
desiring the protection of the Parliament, hath taken the Negative Oath, and 
sent in a horse, for which we received £4. 
29th December. William Clark, as tenant to the State, takes Mr. Poulton’s 
farm at Stratford at £40, besides Mrs. Poulton’s allowance and other payments 
according to the Ordinance. 
Mr. Robert Jole, of Sarum, tenant to Mr. John Young, gives bond for the 
payment of the last half-year’s rent. It was £120, but we accepted £50, 
allowing the rest for losses, free quarterings, Xe. 
