The Wiltshire Compounders, 



neither did he engage at all in the latter war (that of 1G46). But 

 doubting he might be liable to sequestration, and taking notice of 

 the favour intended by the late vote to such as shall discover them- 

 selves, he petitioned here (in London) 4th May, 1649. On his 

 property, consisting of houses and lands at Chippenham and 

 Hardenhuish, a fine of £30 was thereupon levied. As for his 

 personal estate in wool, yarn, and cloth, this was already dissipated. 



Humphrey Henchman, of Sarum, D.D. (afterwards Bishop). 

 His delinquency lay in his deserting his habitation and repairing to 

 Oxford, where he was at the time of its surrender to Sir Thomas 

 Fairfax. He is seised of a freehold for life in right of his wife, who 

 is seised thereof for her life as a jointeress from John Lowe, her 

 first husband, of and in certain lands and tenements in Dorset and 

 Wilts, annual value before the troubles, £100. He is seised of a 

 freehold for two lives in being, of the prebend or parsonage of the 

 Southport of Grantham, in Lincolnshire, for which he pays £30 

 reserved rent to the prebendary, more than which it is worth £180 

 per annum. This account of Grantham he subsequently corrects 

 by saying that the lease originally made to John Penruddocke and 

 Bobert Cruys, was by them demised to the compounder and John 

 Ryves, to render annually £100 to Elizabeth Curie, late wife of 

 Walter, Bishop of Winchester, then to William Curie, their son and 

 heir, then to Ellen, the compounder's late wife. Fine, £200. 



Henchman, or more properly Henxman, was the appellation of 

 the pages of honour attendant at the feast-days of the Order of the 

 Garter. Hinxman is the name of a family seated at Little Durnford, 

 near Amesbury. Died, 8th August, 1779, the Rev. Humphrey 

 Henchman, Prebendary of Salisbury and Rector of Barford St. 

 Martin, and of Great Cheverill. 



Bakron Hilton, Esq., a recusant (Romanist). The property 

 which this gentleman held at Berwick St. John, Donhead St. Mary, 

 and Donhead St. Andrew, was seized in 1648 as the estate of Sir 

 William Smith, of Durham, but discharged in the following year 

 on a certificate from Durham that Smith was no delinquent. 



Ralph, Lord Hopton, of Stratton, of Evercreech, and of Witham 

 Friary. This nobleman's estate lay in Somersetshire, but he also 



