The Wiltshire Compounders. 



Assizes" of 1644, but declares that he was enrolled in that com- 

 mission without his privity or consent, at a time when he was 

 occupied in his regiment. In a year's time after he took a different 

 view of his position, paid £60 as a quietus to the Wilts Committee, 

 £75 to Colonel Ludlow, besides delivering him a horse worth £25, 

 and finally took the National Covenant and the Negative Oath. 



He is seised of a freehold in the manor of Boscombe, remainder 

 to his wife, Rachel, remainder to the heirs of his body, £160 per 

 annum ; old rents there, £5 j a term having sixteen years to run of 

 and in the rectory of Durrington, worth, after all outgoings, £55 ; 

 remainder of a term in Charlton manor, worth to him before the 

 troubles, £7. And he is in debt £1000. His fine, at a tenth, was 

 at first declared to be £572, reduced to £502. 



Boscombe House and estates remained in this family till 1733, 

 when John Kent sold them for £12,000 to Robert Eyre, of New 

 House, in "Whiteparish, Esq., but as the Eyre family continued to 

 reside at New House, the Boscombe mansion was let successively to 

 the Hon. Morgan Vane and to Charles Henry, Earl of Mountrath. 

 It was afterwards used as an occasional hospital for persons inoculated 

 with the small pox, and about 1780 was entirely taken down by 

 Samuel Eyre, then lord of the manor. The old villagers described 

 it to Mr. Matcham as a large and handsome building ; but beyond 

 this their powers of descriptive delineation failed. 



William Kenyon, of Box, Gent. Appears to have lain under 

 the imputation of recusancy, and to have suffered in consequence the 

 confiscation of a third part of his real estate. His petition to com- 

 pound for the remainder is based upon the Act of 1653. Mr. 

 Reading is ordered to report on his case. No subsequent notice. 

 Oliver was now taking in hand the cases of long delayed justice, 

 and enforcing prompt settlement. See the case of Lord Arundel. 



John Kitson, of Semington, Gent. Had been in arms against 

 the Parliament \ bnt coming in upon the articles of Oxford, and 

 taking both the accustomed oaths, escaped with a fine of £45. 



William Levett, of Savernak, in Wilts, otherwise of Mazefield, 

 in Sussex, Esq., Page of the Bedchamber, or Page of the Back 

 Stairs to Charles I. ; he was also styled " one of the Prince's 



