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5th January. Christopher Plott holds land at Stanton belonging to Edward 
Fowle, a delinquent, at £13.—(A subsequent entry of 20th March, 1648, is as 
Sollows :—) “ Distrained a horse for the rent due at Midsummer and sold the 
same after a fortnight’s keeping for £5; of which ten shillings was paid for 
his meat, the rest, £4 10s., to the State. The overplus being tendered to Plott, 
he refused it.—This bargain Plott hath never renewed but continues in his wrong 
way.” 
12th January. Certificate under the hand of Captain William Ludlow touching 
the delinquency of Frederick Vaughan, parson of Gissage, a blind man.—These 
are to certify that before Cheriton fight, I, being at Wardour Castle with my 
cousin, Colonel Edmund Ludlow, went forth with a party of horse and dragoons, 
he being then Governor of the said Castle and commander of the said party, unto 
Falstone House, belonging unto Sir George Vaughan, there to search for horse 
and arms for the service of the State. But the aforesaid Mr. Vaughan, the 
blind man, Mr. Shirley, and other malignants, as I conceive, being then in the 
house, shut up the doors and resisted those that were first sent, and withal took 
_ their horses and brought them into the dwelling-house, and kept them until my 
cousin Ludlow came with his whole party, and was forced to fire some part of 
the out-houses. So then, apprehending themselves to be in great danger, they 
yielded, but upon such conditions as we might have expected from enemies and 
not from friends. It was reported that they had sent for others in the neigh- 
bourhood to keep the house against us. And we found after our entrance that 
they were clearly all against us, and thought us to be rebels against the King 
and Kingdom. (Signed) 
Wittiam Lupiow. 
11th January. Mr. James Bennet, one of the younger sons of Thomas Bennet, 
of Pyt-house, Esq., having been called before us for delinquency, he having been 
formerly in arms against the Parliament, hath taken the Covenant and engaged 
to pay £10, which we accept as a composition, he having no visible estate, and 
being far under the value of £200. 
13th January. John Smith, of Stourton, yeoman, sat as a grand juryman at 
the “Illegal Assizes ;’’ but it appears he was drawn into it on a sudden, before 
his judgment was rightly informed. Since that time he has done the State good 
service by advancing arms and harbouring Parliamentary officers, for which the 
Cavaliers greatly plundered him, In consideration of his losses, and his small 
real estate being mortgaged, the Committee accept of £20 in full discharge. 
19th January. Of John Moody the elder, of Upton-Lovell it was testified 
that he showed his attachment to the King’s service by presenting a bay gelding 
to Prince Maurice and a twenty shilling piece to buy saddle and furniture, &c., &, 
In respect of his son who went over to the Parliament’s side, he declared that if 
the rebel-rogue did not come home forthwith he would put him out of all the 
means he had provided for him. Testified by John Dann, Philip Nenton, and 
Stephen Sly. 
26th January. Ordered by the Committee of Lords and Commons for His 
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