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him : One other of the said three men to do the same at 

 the seconde mylcs ende from the said starting place, and 

 thother of the said three men to do the Hke at thend of 

 the third myle from the said starting place. And lastly shall 

 and will yearly cause to be in readyness at the said place two 

 other inhabitants of the said citty who shall be appointed by 

 the Maior of the said citty for the time beinge to be judges 

 which of the horses runninge in the said race shall wynn the 

 same. In witness whereof to th'one parte of this Indenture 

 remaininge with the said Sir Edward Baynton the said Maior 

 and Comynalty have putt the common scale of their cor- 

 poracion and to th'other p'teofthis Indenture remayning with 

 the said Maior and Comynalty the said Sir Edward Baynton 

 hath sett his hand and scale yeeron the day and year first 

 above written." * 



^^^ Sir Edward Baynton, K.B., son and heir of Sir Edward 

 Baynton, Knight, of Borham (above mentioned) and his first 

 wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Maynard, 

 of Easton, county Essex — baptized December 2, 

 161 8. He took an active part in the troubled times in which 

 he lived, and acted as commissioner of the Parliament, re- 

 siding in the Scots army. He was M.P. for the county of 

 Wilts 1620, and for Devizes 1654, High Sheriff 1638. The 

 family, however, removed from Falston to Bromham, in 

 Wiltshire, and on the mansion-house there being destroyed in 

 the time of Charles I., retired to Spye Park in that neighbour- 

 hood, where a descendant of them still resides. At the Restora- 

 tion Sir Edward was created Knight of the Bath. He married 

 Stuarta, daughter of Sir Thomas Thynne, and sister to Tom 

 Thynne, Esq., of Longleat, by whom he had two sons and one 

 daughter. He died suddenly, July 26, 1679. 



In a contemporary manuscript, preserved at the British 

 Museum,! descriptive of a topographical excursion through 



* Hoare's Hist. Wilts, vol. v. 



t MS., Lansdowne, 213, fols. 319-348. 



