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honest people thereabouts all accompted for Cavalleers ; The said Grove and 

 Bennett havinge formerlie been in the Kinges armie ; and the said Dunne was 

 imprisoned soe soone as hee came in the He of Wight, for suspitious wordes hee 

 spoke then, with some others that wente over thither with him, but were since 

 released upon baile." 



"Mr. S wanton of Sarum, informes, that the Highe Sheriff e of Wilts saw Mr 

 Willoughbie amongst the Rebells nere Blandforde (hee being then a prisoner 

 amongst them), the same daie the risinge was at Sarum ; and the said Mr. 

 Willoughbie doth not denye his being there, but saith it was to fetch off his wifes 

 brother, one Mr. Greene, Junior of Meare [Mere], in the said Countie, that was 

 gone alonge with the said Rebells." 



"Mr. Kitson of Bishopston, in the countie of Wilts, and one engaged in the 

 risinge at Sarum, Informethe, that as hee was marchinge alonge with the said 

 risers nere Ewill on the west side of the said towne, as hee remembers, or hee is 

 confidente upon the roade betweene Blandford and the said Ewill, hee observed a 

 gentleman riding verie fast upp, from the reare unto the fronte of the said partie 

 of risers, and thereuppon askinge who it was that rode upp soe harde, one that 

 rode next this informante replyed, that it was one Mr. Willoughbie, who as this 

 Informante observed was wel mounted, and had a sword by his side, but other 

 armes this Informante knoweth not. This informant alsoe observed another 

 man riding upp at the same [time], a little after the said Mr. Willoughbie, but 

 doth not know who it was, nor did hee enquire after him. 



" This is the Willoughbie of West Knowell [Knoyle], that had the rendesvouz 

 of the ffox hunters at his house for a weeke together, but a very few daies before 

 the risinge at Sarum, as abovesaid." 



[Endorsed] 



" Mr. Kitson his 

 examination ; con- 

 cerninge the insurrec- 

 tion at Sarum, 

 and about Mr. 

 Willoughby." 



" The Information of John Smyth of Lurgisshull, in the county of Wilts, 

 carpenter, 



" Saith, that there was a ffox hunting att the s d towne, the weeke before the 

 rising att Sarum, w ch continued for 4 or 5 dayes, there were present the Lord 

 Sands of Hampshir,* S r Henry Moore of Berkshire f ; ould M r Garratt ; Charles 

 .Garratt & Tho. Garratt, his sonnes living att Lamberton in Berkshire ; Mr. Geo. 

 Browne, and ould Mr. ffisher ; Mr. Deane ; Esq. Haill [Hill ?], and one Mr. 

 Newman. Hee saith further that Mr. John Mumparson [Mompesson J] came 

 on foote, the morning that the rising was, to goe a hunting w th them. Hee 



* See antea. 



+ Sir Henry Moore (second), Bart., of Fawley Court ; extinct 1S07. 

 $ Mompesson, of Bathampton. 



