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of the said parish of Covent Garden, the first six being also Members of the 
House :— 
Denzit Ho tis. JoHN Evetyn. 
TANFIELD VACHELL. JoHN TRENCHARD. 
Perer NicHotts. Ricuarp Bryenam. 
Ropert Wattop. AntHony WirTHER. 
Epwarp Carrer. OxvapiaH SEDewick. 
JoHN ANSTIE. Bens. CunnINGHAM. 
SamvurL Suryrn. 
[No date, but apparently in 1647. Nor is there anything to show what office 
Mr. Fenn filled in the Cathedral. ] 
13th June. An order arrives from the Committee of Lords and Commons, 
directing the Wilts Committee to give £50 to Elizabeth Blagden, widow of 
Gawen Blagden, who long distinguished himself in the service of Sir Edward 
Hungerford, and Edmund Ludlow, in which service he lost his life ;—such £50 
being for arrears owing to her husband, besides £17 due to her for quartering 
divers officers and commanders in the garrison of Malmesbury ; as testified by 
Colonel Ludlow and other gentlemen of quality and credit. 
24th June. In the matter of Arthur Bassett, Esq.— Whereas there is in the 
hands of Elias Francis and William Snow, of Berwick St. James, £300 belonging 
to Arthur Bassett, Esq,, a delinquent formerly in arms against the Parliament, 
—It is ordered by this Committee that the said sum be delivered to this Com- 
mittee; and all Mr. Bassett’s tenants at Asserton are to bring in their accounts 
since 25th March, 1644, being three years and a quarter; when all just 
abatements will be made, and the overplus paid in to this Committee for the use 
of the State according to Ordinance of Parliament. [Another entry on the same 
day, laying claim to a further sum of £501 lying in the hands of Francis and 
Snow and owing to Mr. Bassett.] © 
13th July. Mrs. Barbara Skilling having become the State’s tenant in behalf 
of her husband, Mr. Edward Skilling, a recusant, for his two farms of Draycot 
and Fosbury, at £120 a year, Roger Hitchcock, of West Stowell, engages to find 
the money. 
7th August. Captain William Brethers having shown by his debentures that 
there was owing to him £623 for services in Wilts, the Committee here are 
directed to pay £70 towards it. [He was credited with having raised a troop 
and armed them at his own cost—in whose regiment is not stated.] 
Ist October. In the matter of Thomas Gorges, clerk, prebendary of Wivelsford 
and Woodford, the Committee are requested to declare whether he be a delinquent 
or no ; and if not, to let him enjoy the profits and rents of the said prebend. 
15th October. Roger Gurd, of Compton Abbas, in Dorset, and Robert Best 
are again become tenants for the impropriate rectory of Tisbury, for the year 
beginning next Lady-Day, at £95, besides Mrs. Ever’s thirds, to whom the 
rectory belongs. They are to see the Church windows repaired which were in 
