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six quarters of malt, worth £6.—(Suwbsequent entry.) Received of Mrs. Hobbes 
a double salt, three pieces, and three spoons. Mote. Remember to sequester £5 
per annum which Mrs. Hobbes doth: pay to her son dwelling in the King’s 
garrison.— William Carter, of Gurston, £5.—Jobn Bailey, of Sarum, £3 15s. in 
a horse and £4 in four fat hogs.—John Frowde, of Sedghill, £5.—Mr. Goddard, 
of Sedghill, £10.—William Grey, of East Hatch, £10. He had a horse worth 
£8 pressed for the service by Captain Francis Thistlethwayte.— William Grey 
further appears, together with Thomas Blandford, in the behalf of Thomas Grey, 
of Semley, and subscribes to £7.—Elias Francis, £7. 
16th February. Richard Toope, of Knoyle, gent., a captain in the King’s 
army, brought in here and committed to the Marshal. But by reason his estate 
lies in Dorsetshire he pays £5 for his present enlargement, and Henry Randoll, 
of Broadchalk, gives bond for his appearance within a month before Colonel 
John Bingham, at Poole, there to make further satisfaction. 
19th February. [Giles Eyre, of Brickworth, Esq., whose affection to the 
Parliament had Jong been manifest, had appeared in the previous year before the 
Falstone Committee and subscribed upon the Propositions £50 towards the 
twenty-fifth part of his own and his son Giles’ personals. On the 19th February 
is this second notice.| Giles Eyre, Esq., hath appeared the second time, and 
hath produced several bills and tickets, whereby it appeared he had been at great 
charge in setting forth his sons and advancing moneys otherwise, arid that he 
paid £15 in two oxen and other provisions furnished to Major Dowett, when he 
occupied West Dean House. In consideration whereof and for his good agfection 
to the Parliament, we have thought fit to abate £20 of the subscription avin 
and to accept of £30, which is to be divided as followeth, viz., £20 for ]\is son 
Giles’s annuity, which he is to abate in his rent; and £10 for his own es'tate ; 
the money to be paid by the 6th of May.—Received, 8th May, £23, and a hwrse 
for the troop, delivered to Captain Hassell. {i 
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William Caldecott, Esq., convented before us on suspicion, engageth to take 
the Covenant in the County of Somerset, and subscribes £30 for his five and 
twentieth part. 
February 21st to 26th. Mrs. Elizabeth Snow, of Berwick St. James, widow, 
£5.—A horse worth £5 from John Newman, of Pensworth—John Soyers, £5. 
Henry Castle, of Sarum, William Lucas, of Fovent, Mr. Robert Eyre, of Box, £10 
each.— William Cantelow, of Tisbury, John Scammel, of Tisbury, and Thomas 
Burden, of Donhead, £5 each.—Henry Hewitt, tenant for the King’s Arms, in 
Sarum, to Sir Giles Mompesson, hath brought in his bill, and is to discharge the 
old-rent £8, and pay us £4 more on 25th March—the future rent to be £16. 
26th February. Mr. George Pope, minister of Donhead St. Mary, hath sent 
his tenant John Lush to compound for his five-and twentieth part. He formerly 
paid £40 to Captain Bean when assisting Edmund Ludlow in defending Wardour 
Castle. He now subscribes £40 more. [This aged minister was a great sufferer. 
Supposed to be wealthy, he had shortly before the war been victimised by 
Charles the First’s compulsory loan system, to the amount of £100, by writ of 
