By J. Waylen. 379 
George Collins, of Stapleford, a delinquent in arms, hath taken the Covenant 
before us. For his tenement and copyhold in Berwick St. James, half a yardland, 
he is to pay £5 on 1st November and £5 more 25th March, which, in regard of 
his poverty, is accepted and the sequestration taken off. John Gilbert, his 
tenant, engages to pay the money. [No date.] 
28th September. Mr. Gabriel Luttofte is further assessed by this Committee 
towards his five and twentieth part the sum of £100; for which sum, in respect 
of the great occasion the Committee hath to pay off the soldiers of Malmesbury 
a month’s pay according to an Order of Parliament, they have accordingly sent 
to him. [All paid by degrees, except £20. Then follows :—] “ Quere, whether 
Captain Eyres hath not the other £20.” [See under date 14th August. | 
th September. Richard Carter takes Patney parsonage at £30 per annum. 
Ist October. William Good and Jonathan Hill are become tenants for 
Standlynch Farm for the year ending next Michaelmas, to be used in husbandly 
manner, for £80, besides the two annuities issuing thereout unto old Mrs. 
Bockland and to Captain Bockland’s uncle-—Vote.—An order has been received 
from the Lords and Commons for extending this land for a debt. 
3rd October. Mr. Robert Mead and Richard Berry are tenants to the State 
for Sir John Penruddocke’s manor of Compton, his means at Wilton, Barford, 
and thereabouts, for the year ending Michaelmas next, at £130, my lady’s fifth 
part being therein included; the rent to be paid quarterly.—Taken off by order 
from Goldsmith’s Hall after £32 10s. had been acknowledged. 
3rd October. [A long list of charges was heard this day against Thomas 
Croome, of Teffont Ewias, and his brother, both being sons of William Croome, 
of Fisherton Delamere, to the effect that Thomas Croome, acting in the capacity 
of Quarter-Master to Lord Goring, together with his said brother, broke open 
the barn of Mr. Phipps [the incumbent placed at Fisherton by the Parliament], 
and having caused Mr. Phipps’s servants to thresh out five and a half quarters 
of his wheat, carried it off under the direction of Captain Thynne ;—with sundry 
other counts too long for recital; the witnesses being William Burroughs, 
Elizabeth Hayter, William Marshman, William Rowden, and Dorothy Fryar.] 
' 6th October. George Stanhope, gent., is tenant for the year ending next 
Michaelmas, for the temporal estate of Mr. William Jay, of Fittleton, which he 
is to manage and keep in repair in husbandly manner, at £20. [This bargain 
he renewed next year.]|—Mr. James Harwood, of Sarum, who formerly showed 
his affection to the Parliament by setting forth a horse and arms, and furnishing 
the rider with money, now gives £10 more for his twenty-fifth part. 
15th October. Mistress Susan Hyde, of Pirton, spinster, hath subscribed in 
full for the twenty-fifth part of her estate, £6. Paid this day. 
29th October. Richard Parfett is become tenant to the State for this year 
~ until next Michaelmas for the land of Sir John Webb, knight, lying in Odstock, 
Hamptworth, Milkhi!ls, Vapors, and Burford, all in Wilts, with the underwood, 
