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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



daughter married an ancestor of Lord Malmesbury. From her als 

 descended the late W. Lisle Bowles, the modern Vicar of Bremhill 

 who in consequence assumed the arms of both Davenant and Townson 

 The other children, it might be difficult to trace. 



Edward Wallis, of Trowbridge, gentleman. Was in arm 

 against the Parliament, but rendered himself in November, 1645, 

 when he took the Negative Oath at Gray's Inn, in the presence of 

 Isaac Reynolds, the chaplain, and soon after the National Covenant 

 also. Inhabiting a part of the County of Wilts lying under the 

 power of the King's army and near unto Farley Castle, he acknow- 

 ledges that he took up arms there, as a trooper, for His Majesty, 

 where he continued to serve about twelve months ; but some time 

 before the said castle was taken by the Parliament's forces, he laid 

 down his arms and came into their quarters. He craves pardon for 

 his said error, and prays to be admitted to such reasonable compo- 

 sition as shall satisfy the Committee without ruining him. He has 

 no real estate in lands, but only a personal estate in goods and 

 chattels, worth £500. Fine, at a tenth, £50. First and last he 

 paid £80. 



Thomas Wanklyn, of Westbury, gentleman. He adhered unto 

 the forces raised against the Parliament during the first war ; he 

 petitioned in February, 1651, and saith that he was never sequestered 

 He holds for life of the Countess of Marlborough (the reversion 

 being in John Ashe, Esq.), a parcel of pasture, called Sheephouse 

 Lease, otherwise Great She wells, containing twenty- two acres — also 

 a meadow in Westbury, called Little Mead, containing three acres, 

 worth per annum £29. John Ashe confirms the above declaration 

 in a letter dated from Trowbridge. Fine, at a sixth, £53, adjudged 

 3rd June, 1651. 



Armiger Warner, of Salisbury, Esq. In reply to an inquisition 

 issued by the London sequestrators in 1653, the Wilts Committee 

 beg them to state explicitly where the " estate " lies which Mr. 

 Warner is said to have purchased in this county ; for, by all the 



