12 NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



By His great power we put to fliglit 

 Our raging foes tue Batcornbites, 

 Who carne to plunder, burn, and slay, 

 And quite consume our town this day. 

 1688. Provisions for Capt. Kirke's troop while at 

 Bruton, 19s. 



1688, Nov. 20. A skirmish in the town of Wincanton, 

 on the arrival of King William. 



The Rev. John Earle, m.a. said that the executor of 

 the charter referred to by Mr. Bord was evidently the third 

 William de Mohun. There were but four of that name ; 

 and in the charter, the executor of it spoke of his father 

 and grandfather as benefactors of the Bruton Monastery, 

 and one of the witnesses to it was "William, his son and 

 heir." It was a question whether the first William de 

 Mohun was the founder of the Abbey or only the restorer 

 of the Priory. 



Mr. J. Batten, in connection with the paper read by 

 Mr. Bord, observed that the estates of Sir Henry Berkeley, 

 of Yarlington, and Sir Edward Berkeley, of Pylle, were 

 sequestered by the Parliament in the civil war, the former 

 compounding for £1275, and the latter for £770. The 

 Charge against Sir Henry, as given by Mr. Edmund Curl, 

 the sequestrator of the Hundred of Catsash, is, " That he 

 was in armes against the Parliament, and his sons who 

 were captains in the King's army, and have been active 

 and malicious enemies against the State." The Sequestra- 

 tion was removed by order from Goldsmith's Hall, on the 

 9th of March, 1646; but in the meantime the sequestrator 

 had taken part of Sir Henry's lands in Galhampton, North 

 Cadbury, and Babcary, and complains in a note " The 

 lands at Babcary I could not let ; Sir Henry's people, by 

 his or his lady's ordere, had given such threatenings 



