By F. A. Carrington, Esq. 157 



He also shews from another document^ that Sir John Glanvill of 



Broad Hiuton, Knight, was fined £2320, but his name does not 



appear in the printed list from which the foregoing extracts were 



taken. - 



F. A. Carrington. 



The Royalist Composition Papers in the State Paper Office find series, vol. 18, page 595,) contain 

 valuations of the property of the Marquis of Hertford, part of which he possessed for life, and part 

 in fee simple, and a great deal of correspondence and minutes is on the subject. The following 

 entries relate to the Composition he was to pay. 



" 9th March, 1646. Fine as tenant for life onely, £9570. Fine as tenant in fee, £16,783." 



On the same page. "12 Jan. 1647. Upon the motion of Mr. Rich in the behalf of the Lo. Mar- 

 quesse of Hertford, it was ordered by the Lords and others at this comittee, that his Lordship's fine 

 should be reduced and made certain, and his estate for life allowed of, and the additions in his is 

 particular set forth according to the Articles of Oxford and the proceedings and rules of this comittee, 

 to and with all other men that come in vpon the sayd Ai-ticles. According to which order the sayd 

 Lord JIarquesse fine at a tenth is £8345." 



From other documents in the same volume, in the State Paper Office, it appears that the Marquis's 

 estates were in settlement, and that he was to be charged on a life interest on the whole value of the 

 property, at £9570, which was mitigated to £8345. 



It seems strange that the ordinance for sequestring the estates of the Royalists, was made in 1643, 

 and yet persons were compounding in 1647. 



The fact was, that long after 1643, the Royalist party was in many parts of England the strongest, 

 and Lord Seymour entertained King Charles the First at Marlborough Castle, on the 10th of April, 

 1044, (the day when the king reviewed his army, 900U strong, on Aldbourne Chace,) and again for five 

 days, beginning the 12th November in the same year, (Gutch's Collect. Cur. vol. ii. 432-39.) And 

 neither the Marquis of Hertford, his son, Lord Seymour, or his grandson, Charles Seymour, were 

 declared Delinquents till after the capitulation of Oxford, on the 24th of June, 1646, in which all 

 three were included. 



1 "Waylen's History of Marlborough, p. 239 : 



With respect to this gentleman, the following is an extract from Rushworth's Collections, vol. 7, 

 p. 1205. "Thursday, July 27, 1648. The House considered the case of Serjeant GlanviUe, reported 

 from the committee appointed to consider thereof. 



" The House ordered ' that the 5th part of the land of the said Serjeant Glanville should be accepted 

 of for the 5th and 20th part of the estate. 



" 'That the bail of the said Sarjeant should be discharged, and himself likewise from all imprison- 

 ment.' " 



' It is very much to he regretted that several of the most iateresting works re- 

 lating to Wiltshire are so rare. Mr. Russell Smith, its publisher, states that of 

 Mr. AVayleu's " ilistory of Marlborough," only 250 copies are printed. Of our 

 President's admirable work on Castle Combe, only 1 50 copies, I believe, were printed 

 for private distribution. The "Sarum Institutions," and Aubrey's Collections 

 for a ilistory of North Wilts, both privately printed by Sir Thos. Phillipps, Bart., 

 are equally scarce. Though I ought not to omit mentioning that Sir Thomas 

 Phillipps very kindly gave me a copy of the latter, with very numerous illustra- 

 tions by Lady Phillipps. Still the consequence of these limited editions is that 

 those works aie hardly ever to be seen, and even more difficult to be obtained. 



F. A. C. 



