390 The Falstone Day-Book. 
Digby family, who were now in possession of Sir Walter’s estates at Sherbourn, 
came up for composition as Royalists, their prayer was met by the following 
proviso appended to the Act which adjusted their sequestration :—‘ That out of 
the landed estates of John, Earl of Bristol, and of George, Lord Digby, so much 
as shall amount to the clear yearly value of five hundred pounds shall be settled 
on Carew Raleigh, Esq., son of Sir Walter Raleigh, over and above all reprises, 
in discharge of a pension of four hundred pounds, now greatly in arrear, payable 
for great and valuable considerations unto the said Carew Raleigh out of the 
Exchequer of the Commonwealth.” Mr. Matcham, our local historian, could 
hardly have been aware of this fact when he stated in his account of Downton 
that “during the interregnum the Raleighs in all their branches appear to have 
suffered the depression and suspicion common to the Royalists.”’] 
23rd November. [Resolved. That this House doth approve of what hath 
been done by Mr. Francis Dove, the Mayor of Sarum, in pursuing and re-taking 
the prisoners who escaped out of the gaol there; and that Sir John Danvers, 
Colonel Ludlow, and Mr. William Stevens, the Recorder of Sarum, do return the 
thanks of this House to the Mayor for his good service therein ; and that the 
Sheriff of Wilts be required to take care to satisfy the charges of the persons 
employed in that service ; and that the same be allowed to him upon his accounts 
in the Exchequer. Commons’ Journals.] 
[1650. 15th January. At a General Sessions for the peace of the county, 
held at New Sarum.— Whereas this Court is informed by the humble petition of 
Daniel Drake, keeper of the gaol at Fisherton Anger, that by reason of the 
several desperate insurrections and mutinies of the fellows committed to his 
charge, in securing them for the good of the Commonwealth, and his own trust 
in bringing them to lawful trial, hath been at great loss and expence, amounting 
in the whole to threescore pounds, four shillings, and sixpence, he prayeth this 
Court to take the same into serious consideration, there having never been the 
like attempts of prisoners to escape which enforced the said Daniel Drake to be 
at that charge. The Court, knowing the faithful service which the petitioner 
hath performed, think fit that he be allowed fifty pounds towards his said 
charges, to be paid him by the Sheriff of Wilts. And they humbly desire the 
Hon. Committee of Revenue to give allowance thereof to the said Sheriff. 
(Signed by) William Coles, Clerk of the Peace to the said county.—(Endorsed 
by) Thomas Bond, Esq., Sheriff in 1650.] 
1653. The Council of State request the Committee of Indemnity to stay 
proceedings for six months in the suit against Sir Nevill Poole and Margaret, 
widow of Sir Edward Hungerford. These two persons had in 1644 borrowed 
£500 of Mr. Aldsworth, of Wilts, for the service of the Parliament under 
Colonel Ludlow on bond of Sir John Danvers and Mr. Audley, with Sir Edward 
Hungerford and Sir Nevill Poole as contra-security. Being sued to outlawry on 
the above account, they had appealed to Parliament, who remitted them to the 
Wilts Sequestrators; but the Wilts Sequestrators claimed exemption on the 
ground of having received orders to send all monies to Goldsmiths’ Hall. 
11th July, 1649. Letter from Thomas French, of Bradford, in Wilts, styling 
