1646.] THE ONLY LOYALIST. 107 



" Lord's anointed," in which every man, woman, and 

 child, during the reigns of the two first Stuart sove- 

 reigns, were so devoted to those monarchs, contained in 

 1646 but one householder who remained loyal to the 

 cause of fallen royalty. This one royalist was Jasper 

 Brydon, an old soldier, who held " a small tenament " 

 in Newmarket worth £\ yearly. He had another 

 house in Cambridge — his entire patrimony producing 

 ;^20 a year. Upon this assessment he had to pay the 

 Cromwellians a composition of ^60. As the pro- 

 ceedings of the sequestration are novel and unknown, 

 we subjoin the modus opej^andi pursued in this and 

 {7nutatis miUandis) similar cases :— 



(I.) 



Jasper Brydon of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge 

 gent' 



His delinquency that he was in Armes against the Parliam'° 

 and in Wallingford at the tyme of the Surrender, and 

 craues the benefit of those Articles, wherein six months 

 tyme is giuen to make their peace with the Parliam'*^ or 

 to goe beyond seas, which bears date the 6* of July, 

 1646. He peticoned heere the 24*'' of November, 1646. 



He hath taken the Naconall Couenant before W" Barton 

 minister of John Zacharies the 15"' of December 1646- 

 And the negative oath heere the 19"' of December 1646. 



He compounds vpon a perticular deliured in vnder his hand 

 by which he doth submit to such Fine &c. and by which 

 it doth appeare. 



That he is seised in Fee to him and his heires in possession, 

 of and in a messuage or Tente' scituate and beinge in 

 Cambridge in the County of Cambridge, and of another 

 Tente scituate and beinge in Newmarket in the county of 



