378 The Falstone Day-Book. 
hand for the time past. For the year beginning next Michaelmas he agrees to 
pay £100. This agreement is dated at Longford Castle. [After the receipt 
of £40 occurs the following :—] ‘‘The rest is taken off above [i.e., in London] 
by his composition.” 
18th September. John Beacher and William Cantloe, both of Tisbury, yeomen, 
are become tenants to the State in the behalf of the young Lady Arundel, for 
one year beginning Lady-Day next, for these lands and rents, the estate of her 
husband in Wilts, as, namely, the rents of assize of the manors of Donhead, 
Tisbury, Bridzor, and Hazeldon-Anstey, and Tollard-Royal, with Wardour Park ; 
also the rent-corn of Berry-Court Farm and East Grove Farm, in Donhead,— 
for £325, to be paid at the usual feasts; besides the Lady Blanch Arundel’s 
thirds and the young lady’s fifths. They are to commit no waste, and to take 
only fire-bote and other necessary botes to be employed on the premises. [Among 
the receipts which then follow £60 is assigned to Colonel Ludlow and Cornet 
Heely. ] 
20th September. John Brown, of Semley, was charged by Savage with 
saying, That if the Common Prayer were taken away, we were as good go to 
plough again upon the Sundays. He also caused his daughter’s child to be 
carried into another parish to be baptised with the sign of the Cross. Sworn at 
Falstone, 20th September. 
The 22nd September being a thanksgiving day appointed by the Parliament, 
a party of young men viz., John Gomelton, John Banister, Anthony Maynard, 
Thomas West, and John Peaslyn, confederated to buy faggots for a bonfire in 
Katharine Street, Salisbury ; whereupon John Beckham, a Royalist, coming into 
Banister’s house, upbraided them for making such a demonstration against the 
King, saying that for his part he was a Cavalier, and so would live and die. 
When the fire was lit, Beckham, being joined by young Smith, the tailor, Mark 
Hancock, Richard Lovell, Hasey, Curtis, and others, armed with heavy staves 
and swords, scattered the bonfire into the water; and this being followed by a 
personal conflict Thomas West received a cut in the hand. [Examined at Falstone 
House—result not stated. Abridged. ] 
24th September. An order arrives from the Committee of Lords and Commons 
for Sequestrations directing that the Vicars-choral of Salisbury should still 
receive all their former rents and profits. Signed by John Wylde. 
25th September. Edward Codrington, gent., a recusant, is become tenant to 
the State for two parts of his estate in Sutton Mandeville for one year ending 
29th September, 1647, at £25, besides the annuity due thence to the widow 
Codrington, his mother. [The next year he paid £40. Perhaps Mrs. Codrington 
was dead. | 
26th September. Mr. William Westfield sat in the grand jury at the Illegal 
Assizes ; but, as it appears to have been through timorousness, we have accepted 
£50 for his delinquency and also for his twenty-fifth part. Note.—Ten pounds 
are to be assigned to his wife towards her former husband’s arrears. 
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