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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



above mentioned, who resided at Fasterne, near Wootton Bassett, is 

 credited with a fine of £942, and all of them suffered more or less 

 under the Commonwealth. After the Restoration Sir Robert was 

 made Auditor of the Exchequer, and the King utilised his oratorical 

 powers in the House in suppressing opposition to his money demands. 

 He and his brother, Edward, the fifth son, figured as wits and minor 

 poets in the court of Charles II., to which we may presume they 

 were stimulated by the matrimonial alliance of their sister, Elizabeth, 

 w T ith John Dryden. Edward was the author of a long poem on 

 the war, in ten books, entitled Caroloiades. Philip, the seventh 

 son, attended the court of the Princess of Orange till the Restoration, 

 when he became a colonel in the army. 



Anthony Hungerford, of Black Bourton, Esq., Member for 

 Malmesbury. Deserting his place at Westminster, he sat in King 

 Charles's Oxford Parliament, Sir John Danvers succeeding him in the 

 Long Parliament. Sir Edward Poole told them that Colonel Fetti- 

 place had assured him thatMr. Hungerford would have been carried to 

 Oxford by force had he not gone voluntarily. The fact was, his estate 

 lay near Oxford and would have been liable to plunder otherwise. 

 Before long he manoeuvred to be captured and sent to London, where, 

 after lying for some time in the Tower, he compounded. The fine 

 declared was, at a tenth, £1013, at a third, £2532 — uncertain which 

 of these two sums was levied. Nor is it clear how they could both 

 represent the same principal. The final adjustments were in many 

 cases eminently capricious. Mr. Hungerford, it is believed, eventually 

 paid £1500, through Lord North's intercession. 



Thomas Hunt, of Longstreet, in the parish of Enford, gentleman. 

 His delinquency lay in bearing arms against the Parliament. He 

 surrendered himself and took the oaths in October, 1645, but did 

 not petition in London till two years later, when he acknowledged 

 having been in arms, but after awhile " saw his error " and came 

 and submitted himself unto Lieutenant-General Cromwell, at which 

 time also he took the National and Negative Oaths, and prepared 

 to exhibit his " particular," but his estate was claimed by his mother, 



" To all officers and soldiers in the Parliament's service. 

 t " These are to require you to permit the bearer thereof, Thomas Hunt, major, 



