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Captain Pawlet’s man three muskets that were concealed in the house. Captain 
Pawlet was at that time commander of the King’s garrison at Christchurch. 
Mr. Stockman also sent a horse and man armed with back and breast, headpiece, 
and carabine, to Colonel Villiars, at Chippenham. This was in March, 1645. 
5th December. Major Francis Toope, who was in arms against the Parliament, 
had two livings in the parish of East Knoyle, being “ rowlist things” [sic]. 
The Committee has let them to Nicholas Rowe, of Sarum, for £15, reserving the 
fifths for the Major’s wife and children. 
8th December. Mr. John Hunt, sen., and Mr. John Hunt, jun., of Ham 
parish, have subscribed upon the Propositions £15, which we are informed is the 
full of the fifth part of their estate in Wilts and Berks, their debts amounting 
to the value of their personal estate. 
8th December. Mr. John Bampton being warned to appear, hath paid £20 to 
the use of the State. His ticket, bearing date 18th April, 1645, shows that he 
formerly sent in to Sir William Waller’s commissary five small loads of hay, for 
which we allow £10. All his payments, amounting to £40, we accept in full for 
his twenty-fifth part—(Subsequent entry.) “£5 were afterwards remitted for 
quarterings and other disbursements.” 
29th December. Daniel Hale, of Sarum, physician, made his submission 
before this Committee for delinquency in having abetted the Club-rising, and 
secreting arms in his house. Having now taken the Covenant and the Negative 
Oath, and his estate being small and indebted, £40 is accepted. 
31st December. Upon the petition of Lieutenant Robert Ring and his eight 
brothers, John, Samuel, James, Joseph, William, Nathaniel, Josiah, and Daniel 
Ring, praying to have their accounts adjusted for services done in the Parlia- 
ment’s behalf in Wiltshire and Dorsetshire, the Wilts Committee receive an 
order “‘ from above” to audit forthwith the said charges and enable the petitioners 
to resume their several callings. (Signed by) Lord Pembroke, Ludlow, Massey, 
Bingham, Hungerford, Earle, and others. 
[The nine brothers Ring. Quare. Is any thing further on record respecting 
this fraternity? Did they all ride in Edmund Ludlow’s troop? What was 
their habitat ; and what were the specific services they claimed to have wrought 
for the Parliament’s cause? I think it can hardly be assumed that they all 
belonged to Ludlow’s regiment; because, with that love for detail which 
characterises the Major-General’s narratives of his Wiltshire campaigns, so 
interesting a circumstance would surely have found place. In the absence of 
positive information the family may be conjecturally located in the district 
south of Warminster ; perhaps in and about Sedghill and Semley ?] 
31st December. [Informations were this day laid against Anthony Cleeter, 
of Clyffe Pypard, Christopher Cleeter, his father, Christopher Cleeter, jun., Giles 
Perkins, of Lediard-Tregose, Thomas Spackman, of Clyffe Pypard, Thomas 
Buckeridge, of Stanton, and others, for delinquency, and specifically for their 
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