To which is prefixed a Copy of A Lay Subsidy. 591 



1642, and that 2nd June, 1648, administration of the estate of 

 Eobert Hyde of Buckland was granted to Anne, his relict. There 

 may be possibly some explanation forthcoming why the grant of 

 administration was thus deferred, always supposing that Robert of 

 Hatch and Robert of Buckland are identical ; but assuming that 

 1642 is the correct date of death ( — and we know already that 

 Robert was alive in November, 1641 — ), and that his wife Anne 

 survived him, inasmuch as it is Anne Hyde who is assessed in Sir 

 Walter Grove's MS,, and inasmuch as we know, upon reputable 

 authority, 1 that Sir Henry Ludlow, who is also assessed in it, 

 was buried in November, 1643, we must conclude, that this MS. 

 was drawn up in one or other of these two years 1642 or 1643. 



Doubtless with more careful enquiry the date will be more 

 accurately determined, and the nature of the document explained. 

 Not only do names recur in it under different headings, for instance, 

 Lord Cottington in Tisbury, Staple, Hatch, and Fonthill Gifford, 

 but the same name is frequently repeated under one heading, for 

 instance, in the list for Hatch " Nicholas Scammell " occurs three 

 times over, with varying figures appended to his name, " Thomas 

 Bennett, Esq.," thrice, " Mr. Clutterbooke " twice, Lord Cottington 

 twice, and Roger Scamell twice. It looks as though we were dealing 

 with parcels of land — and under Damerham we get the entry 

 " Ashbyes Coopers, 2 Farmes," under Chadenwick " Cowardes 

 Tenement" — only we are given, apparently, not the acreage, not 

 the rateable value, but the rate struck on each parcel. 



In the matter of the return of 1641 we are provided with some- 

 thing much more definite. In the Parliament begun at Westminster 

 3rd November, 16 Charles (1640) a statute was enacted, Cap. 4 

 entitled " An Act for the further reliefe of his Majesties Army and 

 the Northern Parts of the Kingdome," By this Act it was ordered 

 that " twoe entire Subsidies shall be rated taxed leavied, and paid 

 at one entire payment " ; " every person born within this Realme 

 . . . and every fraternity, guild . . . corporate and not 

 corporate « . . being worth 31. as well in coine and the value 



1 Certified Pedigree of Ludlow of Hill Deverill, Co. Wilts, to face p. 172 

 of vol. xxvi. of Wilts Arch. Mag. 



