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of H. Vertue, the Rector, and William Goddard, the churchwarden. 

 Such was Mr. Lowe's share in the military disorders of the first 

 war ; in all which he could truly say that none of his actions were 

 aggressively hostile to the Parliament. 



In estimating his fine it appeared that he was possessor of the 

 remainder of a term having fifteen years to run of the prebend and 

 parsonage of Calne, h olden of the Treasurer of Salisbury, worth 

 before the troubles £500 per annum, but with reservations to the 

 leasor, to the prebend, and to the vicars choral, amounting to £200, 

 worth to himself only £300. He acknowledges £1300 as owing to 

 him, but exhibits debts of his own to a still greater amount. Sub- 

 sequently he owns to have omitted some small copyhold and chief 

 rents belonging to the prebend, when the final award was thus 

 decreed : — cc Upon the review, the fine to be settled at a tenth, in 

 all £336. 6th November, 1649/' But this was not his only loss. 

 A conspicuous friend of the Parliament's cause in Northamptonshire, 

 named John Waters, farming his own estate, fell very early in the 

 struggle a prey to the Cavaliers, who swept his entire stock off the 

 land, and, getting hold of his person, shut him up in Banbury 

 Castle, where he soon after expired. Now, this gentleman owed 

 Mr. Lowe £500, which under the circumstances his brother and 

 heir-at-law, William Waters, desired to repudiate. Sergeant Wilde 

 being directed by the Parliament to examine and report on the case, 

 William Waters was informed that their decision was in his favour, 

 provided he handed over £100 to the use of the garrison at Abingdon. 

 This would make an addition of £500 to Mr. Lowe's fine. Lords' 

 Journals. May, 1646. 



Overstepping the interval of the Protectorate, we meet Mr. Lowe 

 again in 1661, complaining that whereas he and his ancestors had 

 for more than a hundred years been tenants of the prebend, manor, 

 and parsonage of Calne, for the last lease of which he and his 

 mother had paid £4000 to the now treasurer, Dr. Edward Davenant, 

 and £4000 more in improving the estate ; yet the said Dr. Davenant 

 doth now refuse to grant him a new lease (the actual lease expiring 

 next Lady-Day), but hath granted a concurrent lease thereof to his 

 own son or some other relative. And though orders have actually 



