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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



in view he executed his office with all possible lenity, as would be 

 sufficiently attested. That his influence was cousiderable may be 

 inferred from the fact that the Wilts Committee thought it 

 necessary to send a troop of horse to Bradford, who carried him to 

 Malmesbury, where £160 was demanded as the penalty of his 

 delinquency. Not having the ready money he remained in custody 

 for a short time till the payment of £100 liberated him; but it was 

 not till the spring of 1647 that he addressed himself for composition 

 to the London Committees. 



He is seised to him and his heirs of a manor in Bradford, the old 

 rents whereof are £18 2s. Tne demesnes and woods and water 

 mill there were valued before the troubles at £120 per annum. A 

 like estate in the manor of Trowle, old rents, £20 9*. %d. A like 

 estate of houses and tenements in Bath, £37 lis. 9d. He craves 

 allowance in respect of £60 for two annuities payable to his brothers, 

 John and "William, by the will of their father, John Hall, deceased 

 in 1630 • also of £300, payable to his sister Anne, on the day of 

 her marriage ; also of £40, the unpaid remainder of a like portion 

 to his sister Dorothy. Also of £4 5<s. 4<#., reserved rent to the 

 Marquis of Winchester for the manor lands and mill in Bradford 

 aforesaid. Also of £1 18*. Sd. yearly paid to the Crown for tenths 

 for the said lands and tenements in Bradford and Bath. He is 

 indebted upon several bonds above £800. Fine, at a sixth, £660. 

 Dated 1st May, 1649. 



Hugh Hare, Lord Coleraine, of Longford Castle. Statement 

 by the Committee of Lords and Commons for the advance of moneys 

 for the army. Forasmuch as the Lord Coleraine hath given security 

 to stand to and perform the order of this Committee touching the 

 assessment of his five-and-twentieth part, not exceeding £2000, it 

 is now ordered that the sequestration made of his lands, debts, and 

 estates be taken off, and his rents and debts paid to him without 

 interruption, except the rents due Lady Day last, which his lordship 

 is content shall be received by this committee in part of his com- 

 position for his twenty-fifths. Signed by Martin Dallison, clerk to 

 the said committee, 21st May, 1644. 



The twenty-fifth was the levy made on those who were not 



