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(Communicated by Me. James Watlen.) 



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H^K)ICHARD DAVY, of East Winterslow, otherwise of Sarum, 

 gentleman. Was in arms against the Parliament, serving 

 in Lord Hertford's regiment as captain of a troop of horse. In 

 pursuance of the vote of the House of 4th October, he rendered 

 himself to the Wilts Committee, 27th November, 1645, and took 

 both the Negative Oath and the National Covenant in London. 

 He is seised in fee to him and his heirs of and in the moiety of 

 Winterslow Farm, worth formerly £60 per annum — coppices and 

 underwood there £10 per annum. He is possessed of a term having 

 thirty-four years to run of houses in Sarum held by demise of the 

 Dean and Chapter, worth per annum £19 more than the reserved 

 rent of one pound. He hath no personal estate. Fine, at a tenth, 

 £170. 



Sir Francis Dowse, of Wallop. This name properly belongs 

 to Hampshire, where he paid a fine of £570 ; but part of his estate 

 lying in Wiltshire he was, at his own request, reported by Humphrey 

 Ditton, John Rede, and Robert Good, to the following effect, 28th 

 November, 1645. Though an old man at the commencement of 

 hostilities, he consorted with that impetuous cavalier, the Lord 

 Grandison ; and as soon as Bristol was in the King's hands he left 

 his house at Wallop in the charge of a menial servant and resided 

 near that city. Touching his estate in this county, he was possessed 

 of a lease for life in a farm at Collingbourn Ducis, held of the 

 Marquis of Hertford at a reserved rent of £20 — more than which 

 it was worth per annum £150. "Another thing called the Broyl 

 of Collingbourn," worth £40 a year more than the reserved rent of 

 £20, paid to the Earl of Pembroke. He had already paid £150 as 

 personal fine for this county. [The thing called " The Broyl " 

 meant Bruelli, or woods, of Collingbourn. There are also the 



