3G2 Proposed Bepeal of the Test and Penal Statutes 



" Return, transmitted on the part of the Lord-Lieutenant of 

 Wiltshire, to the Council of King James II., 168 1- 



34 Parliament-men for Wiltshire. 



2 Knights of the Shire ; 

 My L d Cornbury,* and S r James Long ; y e old place of electing Knights of j 

 y e shire is at Wilton, but if it be removed to y e Devizes, all y e dissenters will 

 come in, and carry it as they please w th a little help. 



Salsbuey, 



Old Saeum, 



Wilton, 



DOWNTON, 



HlNDON, 



Westbuey, 



Heytsbuey, 



Calne, 



Devizes, 

 Chippenham 



Mr Swaine, 

 Mr Heely. 



S r John Nicholas Kn\ 

 Oliver Nicholas, Esq. 

 S r Charles Rowly, 

 Mr Eyres. 



Robert Hyde Esq 



Coll Lewis 

 Mr. Bertie. 



William Ashe Esq. 

 Edward Ashe Esq. 



Mr. 

 Mr. 



Davenant, 

 Chivers. 



S T John Eiles, 



M r Hope. 



S r John Talbott. 



Strong dissenters : will certainly 

 be chosen, if there be a suplemen- 

 tall charter : and a few new ones 

 added to the corporation. 



Is come to be a popular election, 

 and the dissenters joyning w th y e 

 Kings friends will choose 2 fitt 

 persons. Mr Pitt, interloper, has 

 y e making : y e Baily returns the 

 ^writt. 



( My L d Pembroke has the chiefe 



interest here. 

 C A Lawyer, a strong dissenter; 

 < he manages my L d Arundell of 

 (_ Warders concerns. 

 f Mr. Hide has the chiefe Interest. 

 \ Mr. Lambert within mentioned, 

 j was one of the last Burgesses, but 

 V.I prevailed w th him not to stand. 

 My L d Abbington and Coll. 

 Lewis have the chiefe interest, but 

 there is one M r . Trenchard that 

 lives just by may give an oppo- 

 sition, if joyn'd with some person 

 y 1 would spend monies, which will 

 go a great way in y e little boroughs. 

 Coll Lewis is a very nere man, and 

 jvill spend little or nothing. 



These 2 have the sole interest in 

 y e Borrough. I was informed by 

 M r Jefrys of y e Devizes, one of D r 

 Coxes agents, and by another dis- 

 senter, that they would be moderate 

 men in this matter. 

 r M r . Davenant and M r Chivers 

 3 have the sole interest ; but if a new 

 1 charter be found proper for the 

 V.town, M l Davenant will be left out. 

 C Very honest and fitt persons to 

 X serve his Maj ty 



" Mr. Richard Kent of y e custom 

 house, and M r . Bainton have the 

 chiefe interest, but if M r Kent 

 sticks close to S r John Talbott, 

 they will carry it. S r James Long, 

 whom I can engage, has a good 

 interest too. 



* Lord Cornbury, eldest son of the Earl of Clarendon (which title became extinct, 1723), was the 

 first who joined the standard of William of Orange. 



