Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 



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at his own house, and has taken the National Covenant and the late 

 oath — had never acted as a sequestrator for the King", was never 

 a member of the Commons' House — nor a popish recusant, nor 

 popishly affected — was never a councillor or advocate-at-law, nor 

 attorney, nor proctor, nor other officer whatsoever towards the law 

 common or civil, or in any office belonging" to the State or in the 

 Commonwealth. He is seised in possession of and in messuages 

 and lands in the parish of Chute, annual value £3 10.?., for which 

 I his fine at a tenth is £7 ; a freehold during three lives of other lands 

 and tenements there, £15, for which his fine is £22 10.?.; another 

 freehold there, £1 10.$., for which his fine is £2 5*.; personal estate, 

 £140, for which his fine is £14 ; altogether, £45 15*. He is in- 

 debted to Mr. Hancock, of Salisbury, £66 ; to Thomas Hollis, £66 ; 

 and to William Chapman, of Newton, near Newbury, £34 ; no 

 abatement allowed in consequence. 



William Fisher, of Liddington, gent. At the commencement 

 of the war he consented to act as receiver of contributions for the 

 royal army ; but in May, 1645, surrendered to Colonel Devereux, 

 at Malmesbury, compounded for his personal estate by paying £40 

 to the Wilts Committee, and took both the oaths. His receipt, 

 signed by Thomas Goddard, Edward Stokes, Edmund Martyn, and 

 William Jesse, professed to purge him from delinquency and from 

 sequestration of goods and estate, but he had yet to learn that the 

 local committees could not thus liberate real estate. He is seised 

 in fee tail of lands in Liddington, yearly value £60 ; a similar estate 

 in reversion after twenty years, £70; two other estates there, 

 including the mansion house, £160. His personal estate is worth 

 £150. Fine, at a tenth, £235. October, 1649. 



Thomas Gawen, of Norrington, Esq. No class suffered so 

 severely as the Roman Catholics ; for though King Charles was 

 disposed to assuage the violence of the tempest with which the 

 policy of Elizabeth and James had assailed them, this circumstance 

 only aggravated the indignation which overtook them as soon as 

 the Parliament was triumphant. The Gawens of Wiltshire, for 

 example, having been a wealthy family from the Saxon period down 

 to the close of the sixteenth century, became in the next age all but 



