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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



an officer in the service of the Parliament, was actually brought to 

 the bar as a felon and hanged by Sir John Berkeley, the Governor 

 of Exeter. Glanville being now in prison, a petition was presented 

 to the Lords by the daughters of Captain Turpin, praying that they 

 might have some means for their maintenance allowed them out of 

 the estate of the said Sergeant Glanville, which, it is to be presumed, 

 was granted. 



Sir John urgently petitioned that his estates should not be se- 

 questered till his trial, which the Lords seemed willing to grant, 

 but the Commons rejected the appeal. After lying nearly three 

 years in confinement, he was allowed to go to Bath for his health's 

 sake, - first depositing beavy bail for bis appearing, and taking the 

 Covenant ; but he appears never to have been brought to trial on 

 the original count; and his pardon, whicb is dated 7th August, 

 1648, fixes his total fine at £2320. — Lords 1 Journals, x., 422. Of 

 his estates in Wilts, Devon, and Cornwall, those of Wilts were the 

 following : — the demesnes of the manor of Broad Hinton, wortb 

 per annum £320 ; old rents there, £20 ; the farm or demesne of the 

 manor of Highway, £124; old rents of said manor, £10; the 

 meadow and marsh of Cleavancy, £20 ; old rents, £10 ; the farm 

 of Escot, alias Earlscourt, £160 ; the rectory or parsonage of Broad 

 Hinton, by lease for two lives, £40 ; Barbury Down Farm, by lease 

 for one life, that of Mr. Richard Goddard, aged about 60, £200 ; 

 messuage and lands at Little Hinton, holden by copy of court-roll 

 for three lives, £40. 



Although the principal seat of the Glanvilles was Kil worthy, 

 near Tavistock, the old lawyer appears to have retained a strong 

 preference for his Wiltshire home ; for after the wars he continued 

 to live at Broad Hinton, though only the gate-house had survived 

 the ruin which he himself brought upon the mansion. This cir- 

 cumstance we learn from the following passage in Sir John Evelyn's 

 diary, dated 4th July, 1654; — "We went to another uncle and 

 relative of my wife's, viz., Sir John Glanville, the famous lawyer, 

 formerly Speaker of the House of Commons. His seat is at Broad 

 Hinton, where he now liveth but in the g-ate-house, his very fair 

 dwelling-house having been burnt by his own hands to prevent the 



