384 The Halstone Day-Book. 
Majesty’s revenue, that the Rt. Hon. Lord Delaware is a fit person to be Ranger 
or chief keeper of Finkley Walk, in Chute Forest in the County of Wilts, in the 
place of Sir John Philpot, a Papist. 
30th January. Cornet John Lynn receives an order from London addressed 
to the Wilts Committee desiring them to pay him what they think fit for his 
losses, engagements, and sufferings. 
25th February. Concerning Lieut.-Col. Harry Henne, ex-Governor of High- 
worth garrison, where he held the Church till taken by Fairfax in 1645 :—On 
his petition to the Committee for the Safety of the Western Counties, praying 
an order for the enlargement of himself, being committed to prison by the Wilts 
Committee, then sitting at Salisbury; and also for the release of his horses, 
which are likewise detained by their order, it was this day—Ordered, That he 
be dismissed this Committee and referred back again to the said Committee of 
Wilts, to whom it is wholly left to do therein as they shall see cause. 
6th March. Received of Mr. Jacob, of the excise money towards the payment 
of twenty of the Marlborough party of horse, with their two officers, a trumpet, 
and a corporal, £30.—More from him per John Westbere, for the two parties of 
horse, £100.—18th March, from the Commissioners of Excise for the service of 
this garrison of Longford, £40. [Many similar payments and receipts follow. 
Some of the Parliamentary officers then serving in Wilts were as follows :— 
Lt.-Col. William Eyre at Malmesbury, Capt. Collyer at Salisbury, Capt. William 
Ludlow at Longford, Col. Thomas Evre, at Devizes, Captains Green, Salmon, 
Stokes, and Gabriel Martyn, and Cornets Yardley and Wren. ] 
17th March. Richard Elliott is become tenant for Sadler’s estate at Fisherton ; 
the mills, gardens, back-side, and meadows being let to him at £13 6s. 
23rd March. From the Committee of the West sitting at the Star Chamber 
to the Wilts Committee touching the disorders practised by Captain William 
Ludlow’s troopers—Gentlemen. We are informed that notwithstanding their 
due and constant pay, the county troop of horse under Captain Ludlow’s command 
doth still oppress the county by taking free quarter, formerly prohibited them, 
to the great grievance of those that groan under the burden thereof. Herewith 
we desire you to acquaint Captain Ludlow, and by your joint endeavours to 
prevent the like for the future ; and to inflict such punishment on the offenders 
herein as by the Ordinance in that case provided ; and that you continue the pay 
of the said troop as formerly until the sixth of April next, and no longer, without 
order and direction of this Committee ; the due performance whereof commending 
to your care, we rest, your very loving friends, 
Denzit Hottis. JOHN DANVERS. 
Epwarp Baynton, Kyt. JoHN EVELYN. 
Epwarp Baynton. JoHN Dove. 
[Petition from the inhabitants of Westbury, in Wilts, on the same subject, 
though dated somewhat later:—] To his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax,— 
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