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iand declared that he had never been sequestered. He is possessed 

 jof a nag and wearing apparel to the value of £20. His fine was 

 ,£3 6s. 8d. Apparently this gentleman may be identified with the 

 j" friend and kinsman" whom Edmund Ludlow describes as coming 

 'to him during the siege of Wardour Castle,, and earnestly recom- 

 mending its surrender. He is further known to us as one of those 

 iwho accompanied Charles II. during his concealment at Heale House 

 after the Battle of Worcester. 



Francis Potter, B.D., a native of Mere, but resident at Kil- 

 mington, close on the border of the county near Stourhead, an old 

 gentleman far too deeply absorbed in his philosophical researches 

 into physics and mathematics to act as a dangerous partisan, yet 

 someone informed against him before the sequestrators of Somerset. 

 On making his appearance before the board at Wells, one of their 

 number, well acquainted with his harmless disposition, took him 

 aside and told him he need be under no sort of alarm; and, giving 

 him a glass of wine, recommended him to make the best of his way 



■ back to his home ; which friendly advice he followed, and it is be- 

 lieved heard no more from sequestrators. See his history in John 



'Aubrey's collections and in Granger's Biographical Dictionary. 



William Poulton, of Stratford, Gent. His delinquency, that 

 he left his habitation; and residing at Oxford, adhered to His 

 : Majesty throughout the war, and served in his army as a captain. 

 , He was at Oxford at the surrender thereof, and is to have the benefit 

 : of the articles. He hath taken neither the Negative Oath nor the 

 i National Covenant. He is seised of lands at Hurdcot, Ford, 

 Laverstock, and Wincanton, annual value, £3 17<s. 8^. — a freehold 

 . at Stratford, holden by demise from the Church of Sarum, £70 — and 

 a copyhold at Monkton Deverill, held of Sir James Thynne, £15. 

 ! Fine at a tenth £108 6s. January, 1646. He had previously paid 

 (fourscore pounds in respect of his personal estate to the Wilts 

 , Committee at Falstone House. 



Richard Richardson, of Boreham, Gent. A certificate signed 

 i by Gabriel Martyn, Edward Martyn, Robert Brown, and Thomas 



