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obedience of the Parliament long before 1st December, 1645, he 

 had a right to compound at a tenth. Neither was any allowance 

 made for dower, dubitable lands, or judgments; all which were 

 specified in his " particular " and allowed to others in the like case. 

 —That soon after the setting of his fine, Sir James Thynne laid 

 claim to his whole estate, which rendered him incapable of finishing 

 any composition at all, until such time as, by clearing his title in 

 the law, he might have some estate to compound for. — That during 

 the suit at law, this fine at a sixth was, unknown to him, reported 

 to the Parliament. — That in 1648 Sir James Thynne had a verdict 

 at law against his title for the whole estate ; that thereupon Sir 

 Henry Frederick Thynne, for relief, preferred his bill in the Chancery, 

 and in November, 1650, and not before, obtained a decree for his 

 enjoyment of a good part of the estate, though not of the whole. 

 That all this time his estate hath continued under sequestration to 

 the use of the Commonwealth, without any wilful neglect or power 

 in Sir Henry Frederick Thynne for freeing it from sequestration, 

 until since his decree in Chancery, when he applied himself to us, 

 the Commissioners for Compounding, for his relief ; whereunto we 

 did not conceive ourselves (although the equity of his case should 

 require it) sufficiently empowered ; in regard his fine was reported 

 to the Parliament as aforesaid. Since which time there hath been 

 received out of his estate £3500 to the use of the Commonwealth, 

 according to certificates. 



" I do swear that this is the true state of toy case. 



"Heney Feedeeick Thynne." 



26th December, 1651. 



Resolved — that the former composition of Sir Henry Frederick 

 Thynne for his delinquency and confirmed by the Parliament, do 

 stand — with this — that the Commissioners for Compounding be 

 authorised to take consideration of such of the lands by him then 

 compounded for, as have been since recovered from him ; and to 

 make a proportionate deduction out of the said fine in respect of 

 those lands. And the lands for which such deductions shall be 

 made shall remain under sequestration until the remainder of the 



