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to pay the fine of loyalty for his concern with the 

 Arundel expedition. One Richard Shallett, who had 

 been a servant at Oxford for seventeen years, and 

 owned a copyhold at West Harting (a principal tenant 

 of the Caryll family), having been in arms against the 

 Parliament at Winchester Castle, was fined 40 shillings 

 a year for life. Old Sir William Forde was taken 

 prisoner at Chichester, and henceforth his existence 

 seems to have been embittered. He was marched off to 

 London with his son, Sir Edward, for ten months' im- 

 prisonment. When he was exchanged and came home, 

 his neighbours, the Parliamentary Committee of Chich- 

 ester, worried him sadly by ordering " 2000 coards 

 (cords) of wood in Harting Parke (Up Park) to be sold 

 and taken away . . . for satisfaction of wrongs done to 

 certaine countrey people thereabout by some parties of 

 Colonell Ford's (his sonne's) Regiment." About this 

 time, as we shall see, Sir Edward Ford had gained 

 interest with the Parliament, and the comparatively 

 small fine of 500 was all that was laid upon Up Park.* 

 The old man is shrewd enough to throw all blame 

 upon his son, now in favour, and to make capital of him. 

 24th Oct., 1645. "Y r - Pet r - humbly begs that Par- 

 liament w d - not punish him (the father) for the sonne's 

 faults," but enforce the composition ; and is sorely 

 aggrieved that since his composition in October last 

 the Chichester Committee " have caused many of y r - 

 petitioner's Trees to be cutt downe close about his 

 house which standeth upon a hill." They also seized 

 the furniture, stock and goods at Up Park. In a fuller 

 petition of the same date, Sir William Ford pleads 

 that " being sickly and aged he was at Chichester with 



For the composition Sir William Ford returned his Harting 

 property as worth gross ^340, nett .283. All is entailed. The 

 "Up Park demeanes" he values at .120 (let by the Committee 

 for ^80). Mayndownes, .40. Nywood's Meads, Lyemeads, 

 Bonescrofts, 40. Also three yards of land called Neyers, &c. 

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