Communicated by Mr. James Waylen. 



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I am taken up every afternoon until seven or eight at night upon the business at 

 Goldsmith's Hall, and so have not time to wait upon the Committee at Haber- 

 dasher's Hall. Wherefore I pray you to take care of Mr. Edward Yerbury's 

 business ; and if there be necessity that he pay more than already he hath paid, 

 let me know what it is, and upon what grounds ; and I shall take care in it, since 

 he is not able to travel. 



" In the next place, I pray you to take notice of this enclosed paper, and take 

 a record thereof ; for now Mr. Edward Lewis is to be discharged from your 

 Committee for having done what is here certified by that Committee of the 

 county where his estate lyeth. I pray, keep the certificate safe that it be not 

 lost. And in doing right and favour to my friends, you will oblige, 

 ' ' Your assured f riend, 



"John Ashe." 



Preparatory to making- his peace with the Parliament Mr, 

 Yerbury took both the required oaths. His fine was adjudged at 

 £183 lis. lid., but he appears to have paid £190. The name 

 Yerbury crops up not unfrequently during the war. At the treaty 

 of Uxb ridge, in 1644, William Yerbury was a gentleman in the 

 train of Lord Seymour, of Trowbridge, who appeared on the King's 

 side. On the other hand, William Yerbury is a name occurring in 

 the Wilts Committee acting in the Parliament's behalf. Yerbury 

 was the name of one of Major- General Skippon's chaplains. Com- 

 mons* Journals, iv., 38. There were some Yerburys, also, among 

 the early Quakers, One more of the name demands mention in 

 this place, as he was possibly allied to the last-mentioned compounder. 

 This was John Yerbury, of Trowbridge, gent., probably a minor and 

 living in his father's house, for he is described as holding nothing 

 more than personal property worth £10. He nevertheless had to 

 sustain a fine of £1 13s. 4d. This was in 1650, four years later 

 than Mr. Edward Yerbury's affair. 



On the 1st of May, 1646, it is Ordered by the House, That out 

 of the fines or compositions of or for the estates of Eobert Long. 

 Edward Ernie, and Edward Yerbury, of the County of Wilts, 

 Esquires, the sum of £500 be paid to Mr. Robert Jennour, one of 

 the Members of this House, towards his losses sustained by the 

 enemy in the said county. 



John Young, of Durnford, Esq. He rode in arms three months 



