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said fine be paid by the owner of the said lands so recovered. And 

 the question being put, That the interest be paid by the said Sir 



There is also extant a petition of Sir James Thynne to the Gold- 

 smith's Hall Commissioners, dating a little later than the above, not 

 exactly in answer to it, but valuable as elucidating his own position. 

 It sets forth — that whereas Dame Katharine Thynne, late deceased, 

 obtained a judgment for £6350 in Michaelmas term, 1645, against 

 your petitioner, and thereupon extended several of his manors and 

 lands in Wilts and Somerset of the yearly value of £878 8s. 8d. 

 (as extended above all reprises), and enjoyed the same until her 

 death, in May, 1650 ; and then Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, her 

 son, taking administration of her estate, possessed himself of these 

 extent, and profits thereof, until the lands were lately seized by the 

 committees of the two counties for the delinquency of the said Sir 

 Henry Frederick Thynne. — Now may it please your Honours, 

 £6149 0s. 8d. of the said judgment is already received by virtue of 

 the said extent, and £1017 more for fines and heriots. So that the 

 said judgment and extent were fully satisfied about the 25th of 

 March, 1652, and £816 0s. 8d. } or thereabouts, over — as will clearly 

 appear upon perusal of the account. May it therefore please your 

 Honours to refer the same to your committees in the several counties, 

 to certify your Honours as to the cause of the said seizure, and that 

 the rents and profits be in the meantime suspended in the tenants' 

 hands, that your petitioner may receive timely relief therein ac- 

 cording to justice and equity.— James Thynne. 



Endorsed, " Mr. Reading to report/'' 



The composition papers give no further light on the final family 

 adjustment. We may, therefore, wind up with a contemporary 

 letter which crops up from Wiltshire, respecting a smaller matter of 

 detail, sent by the county sequestrators to the London Committee, 

 dated from Sarum, 6th October, 1652. 



" Right Honoueable. There is an estate in this county fallen to Sir Henry 

 Frederick Thynne by the death of his mother, concerning which we formerly 

 acquainted you j and we have disposed and let the same according to your order 



Henry Frederick Thynne for his said fine — it passed in the negative. 

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