EOBEET TYKWHITT, ESQ., ELEVENTH MASTEE. 139 



safely conclude that no payment or fees were received by him 

 from his office of Master of the Buckhounds in 1646 ; in all 

 probability his salary was in arrear from Michaelmas 1642. 

 His rent-charge, above mentioned, was also in arrear from 

 1643, so that he must have been in very embarrassed cir- 

 cumstances ; nevertheless, the Parliamentary Sequestrators 

 imposed upon him a fine of 200/., as appears in the subjoined 

 transcripts of the transaction : — 



To the hon'^''" the Comittee' for Compounclinge with Delinquents 



at Goldsmithes hall. 

 The humble peticon of Robert Terwhitt one of his Ma"'^'* Equeries 

 & Master of the Bvickhounds. 

 Sheweth, — 



That the pef did (as hee humbly conceiueth he was bound by 

 Oath & y" duty of his place)* attend on his Ma'"^^ p'son ever since 

 the begininge of theis troubles ; but was neuer in Amies or had 

 any martiall Imployment whatsoer. Only he humbly confeseth that 

 he adhered to his Ma*"' in this waiTe against the Pai-liament and 

 for his delinquency therein his Estate is vnder or liable to sequestra- 

 tion. 



The pet'' hvimbly praieth hee may bee admitted to a fauorable 

 composicon for liis delinquency according to the Articles of 

 Oxford he being comp''hended within the same. And hee shall 

 pray &c. 

 28th Jni. 1646. 



{Sicj7ied) R. TERWHIT. 



Robert Terwhitt of London, one of his Mat"* Equerries, and Master 

 of his Buckhounds. 



His Dehnquency, that he deserted his dwellinge and went to 

 Oxford and lined there whiles it was a Garrison holden for the 

 Kinge against the Parliam*'^ and was theire at the tyme of the 

 Surrender, and is to haue the benefit of those Articles as by 

 S"" Thomas Fairfax Certificate of the 28th of June 1646 doth 

 appeare. 



he hath neither taken the negative oath, nor Natoriall Couvnant 

 but prayes to be therein spared, vpon the Articles of Oxford 

 and vote of the house of Comons pursuant. 



* The words in the brackets are cancelled. 



