7<S The Wiltshire Compounders. 



till 1730, when Richard Goddard, his grandson, paid up the arrears. 



Richard Goddard, of New Sarum counsellor-at-law. At the 

 commencement of the war this gentleman raised a troop of horse in 

 Hampshire for the King, but was taken prisoner by Sir William 

 Waller at the garrison of Christchurch, near the close of the year 

 1644, after which he laid down his arms and resided at Sarum. 

 His great offence lay in his taking part in the commission of oyer 

 and terminer presented at Sarum, the affair commonly referred to as 

 " the Illegal Assizes." To purge himself as far as possible, Mr. 

 Goddard took the Negative Oath in 1 645 and the National Covenant 

 in 1646, in the presence of William Barton, minister. 



He is seised of a term of ninety- nine years, if he live so long, in 

 a farm called Birchenwood, at Bramshaw, worth £40 per annum. 

 He possesses lands and tenements at Eling and Minshed, in Hants, 

 worth £40 per annum. He enjoys £300 a year in right of his wife, 

 Hester, relict of Robert Mason, of Hants, less by annuities of £15 

 to each of the five children of the said Robert Mason, making in 

 all £75. And in case Lady Anne Beauchamp survive Robert 

 Nicholas, of All Cannings, then during her life he enjoys £400 a 

 year from lands there. He is £2000 in debt, he has twelve children 

 to support ; and his personal estate, worth £5000 before the wars, 

 is all gone. His fine was £862 10$,, being estimated at a third, 

 " he being a counsellor-at-law." Dated 12th December, 1646. 

 The contingent benefit mentioned above as derivable from the All 

 Cannings farm, turned out to be a complicated question, drawing 

 from the Devizes Committee a long certificate which may well be 

 spared the reader. 



Sir Theobald Gorges, of Ashley, Kt. He went and sat with 

 the J unto at Oxford as M.P. for Cirencester ; but he declares that 

 he was purposely absent from the sitting which voted the Parliament 

 at Westminster traitorous. In May, 1644, when Massey took 

 Malmesbury, he freely surrendered himself and was sent up prisoner 

 to London, where he has ever since remained ; therefore believes he 

 ought to be adjudged to pay only a tenth, having surrendered before 

 the last day of October, 1644, the time limited for coming in. He 

 hath taken both the oaths. So long as he sat in the Parliament at 



