3 24 The Wiltshire Compounders. 



annuity of £80 to his mother, Mrs. Anne Grimes, and large sums 

 due to his brothers and sisters by the will of their father. Further, 

 he is £500 in debt, and has paid to the Wilts Committee, first and 

 last, £80. Fine, £200, 12th August, 1646. 



Thomas Stourton, of Boneham, Esq. One third of this gentle- 

 man's estate, consisting of lands and tenements in the manor of 

 Boneham, was forfeited for recusancy. In his petition, 29th May, 

 1655, for leave to compound for the remaining two-thirds, he com- 

 plains that for want of keeping of courts in the said manor the houses 

 and woods had fallen considerably into decay. He paid, as fine, 

 £256 13*, U. 



William Stourton, Lord Stourton. His affairs, like the 

 majority of the Romanists', were long unsettled. A document 

 dated so late as June, 1654, shews that though he had been com- 

 prised in the Oxford articles of surrender, yet on the ground of 

 recusancy the Government refused to admit him to composition for 

 more than two-thirds of his estate, which, ever since that surrender 

 had been under sequestration, and the profits taken by the Common- 

 wealth, the remainder being confiscated absolutely. A fine was at 

 last agreed upon of £1236 195= 5d. } allowance being made for a 

 jointure of £66 135. M. to one of his daughters and a rent-charge 

 of £300 settled on Mary Petre, the wife of his son Edward (deceasd), 

 and £200 a year to Lady Mary Stourton, widow of Sir Thomas 

 Longaville. In his " particular 33 he further states that the household 

 stuff in his two houses of Stourton and Farnborough, worth £3000, 

 had been taken away or spoiled, except some few old beds, tables, 

 and other lumber, not worth above £40, and the park at Stourton, 

 though stored with deer, is a charge, but little profit. 



In June, 1655, a document was drawn up, signed by Bradshaw, 

 Rushworth, and other of the London Commissioners, stating that 

 out of the two-thirds of Lord Stourton's estate, the profits already 

 received by the State since 1st December, 1646, amounted to 

 £3800 Is. lid., from which his fine of £1236 195. M. having to 

 be deducted, it was now " Ordered, that £2563 25. 6d., being the 



