7G The Wilts/tire Compounders. 



John Aubrey, the Wiltshire antiquary, tells us that when an 

 elder son was disinherited the general belief was that, sooner or 

 later, ill-luck would overtake the favoured son. A canny lawyer 

 like Sir John Glanville was not, perhaps, very likely to resign his 

 wealth in deference to a popular superstition ; but constantly recog- 

 nising", as he must have done in his professional practice, the sup- 

 posed inherent claims of first-born children, he would have stood in 

 something like a false position had he retained the family estates 

 after his brother's reformation. 



This elder brother, Francis, thus restored, married Elizabeth, 

 daughter of William Crymes (of Devonshire ?), whose granddaughter 

 carried the estates into the family of Manaton, of Tavistock. 

 Neither did the descendants of Sir John himself long maintain the 

 family name and honours; for soon after 1700 the Wiltshire estates 

 were sold to Thomas Bennet, Esq., of Salthrop, M.P. for Marl- 

 borough, and passed in succession through his daughter, Mrs. Pye 

 Bennet, then again to a daughter, the wife of Thomas Galley, of 

 Burderop, lastly to his son, John James Calley, who in 1839 sold 

 them to John Parkinson, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, who, it was 

 discovered at his death (as stated in the Devizes Gazette, 4th March 

 1858) had purchased and held them in trust for the Duke of 

 Wellington, in whose descendants it is presumed they are now vested. 



Richard Goddard, of Swindon, Esq. The papers respecting his 

 fine contain sundry affidavits, made by himself and others, and 

 corroborated by the Wilts Committee sitting at Devizes, to the 

 following general effect. It was without his knowledge that Mr, 

 Goddard, at the commencement of the war, was by His Majesty 

 nominated with others in commission to uphold the Royal forces in 

 the county of Wilts. He was naturally averse to occupy so in- 

 vidious a position ; but the earnest solicitations of his neighbours, 

 who looked upon him as a person capable of moderating by his 

 councils the severity of the times, induced hirn to sit once in the 

 said commission at Marlborough. His efforts were so far successful 

 as to occasion the removal of levies to the amount of £10,000 im- 

 posed by the King on the north part of Wilts ; and when subse- 

 quently nominated to a similar commission in fellowship with Robert 



