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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



Goddard, members of the Wilts Committee, states that they know 

 nothing concerning Mr. Richardson which should bring him within 

 the compass of delinquency, except his having acted in the capacity 

 of servant to his late Majesty at Oxford. Edmund Ludlow also 

 wrote in his behalf. Fine at a sixth, on a messuage and yard-land 

 at Boreham, £45. August, 1650. 



Thomas Sackville, of Salscombe, Esq. Upon full hearing and 

 debate of the matter touching his departing from Edington, in 

 Wilts, into the King's garrison at Oxford, although he allegeth 

 that it was for the recovery of his wife's disease of bleeding, and to 

 make use of the library there for his own study, he is nevertheless, 

 the Committee of Sequestrators conceive, within the ordinance of 

 sequestration ; but regarding the testimonies of his harmless carriage 

 and good meaning towards the Parliament, as also the smallness of 

 his estate, they recommend him to the Goldsmith's Hall Committee 

 to deal favourably with him. The Goldsmith's Hall Committee 

 fined him £400. His making Edington a place of retreat is ex- 

 plained by the fact that the wife of Sir Edward Lewis, of Edington, I 

 was herself a Sackville, being the daughter of Richard Sackville,; 

 Earl of Dorset. Sir Edward was her second husband, the first 

 being Viscount Beauchamp, son to the Earl of Hertford. 



Thomas Sadler, of New Sarum, Gent. Petitioned in April 

 1646, and acknowledged that he had commanded a troop of horse 

 in the King's service. He was taken prisoner by Colonel Norton, 

 in 1643, and exchanged for Captain Arthur, of Weymouth, since 

 which time he had not intermeddled with any thing against the 

 Parliament. Besides small landed possessions in Corsley, East 

 Dean, Wroughton, Lidiard Tregoze, and Eisherton Anger, he had 

 long held the office of Register of the Church of Salisbury, worth 

 £300 a year; he had also been, in his youth, esquire to the body of 

 James I. At the time of his petitioning he was assailed by 

 clamorous crowd of creditors, and had of course lost the aforesaid 

 office of register. A moderate fine of £134 was published 25th 

 October, 1649. 



