Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 



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obtained his due ; but the fact is that, as a name of eminence in the 

 county, Gawen disappears from that time forward. Mr. Wyndham, 

 a descendant of the above, writing in 1746, speaks of " Henry 

 Gawen " as tenant of part of Norrington. Sir Richard Colt Hoare 

 says the last of the race was father to Mrs. Roberts, who was living 

 at South Newton as recently as 1800. Aubrey asserts that the 

 family had held Norrington four hundred and fifty years — that John 

 Thynne, of Henry the Eighth's time, the editor of Chaucer, makes 

 Gawyn sister's son to Prince Arthur, and that the antiquity of the 

 family is further attested by a mound called Gawen's barrow, on 

 South Down, near Broad-Chalk. 



A petition of Thomas Gawen, dated 12th February, 1651, declares 

 that " Your petitioner having formerly frequented the public exercise 

 of God's worship according to the laws and customs of this Church 

 and land, hath of late years been enforced by reason of great age 

 and infirmities, to keep his chamber, if not his bed ; whereupon the 

 sub-committee of Wilts and Somerset, in which counties your 

 petitioner's small estate lies, have sequestered two-thirds thereof, 

 though never so rightly informed of his innocency." The case was 

 ordered to be taken into consideration ; but the old gentleman 

 appears to have gained rothing by the appeal. 



Sir John Glanville, of Broad Hinton, Kt. This eminent 

 person was for a long time in co-operation with the patriots ; and 

 we learn from Lloyd's Loyal Sufferers that in 1626 he had suffered 

 imprisonment on shipboard for having spoken his mind too freely 

 in respect of certain royal prerogatives. But when the dispute with 

 the Crown came at length to a " passage of arms," Sir John, like 

 so many other lawyers, shrank from the unprofessional ordeal, and 

 sealed his own condemnation by taking part in what came to be 

 termed "the Illegal Assizes" at Salisbury and Exeter in 1644. 

 For this, he, together with the judges who had acted with him, viz., 

 Sir Robert Heath, and Sir Robert Foster, were impeached of high 

 treason in the name of the Commons of England, and Glanville, 

 kneeling at the bar of the House, was committed to the Tower. 

 The above judges, though notoriously baffled at Salisbury, had found 

 a more compliant jury farther west, where Captain Robert Turpin, 



