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by one of his arms thereunto; and finding Antony Hungerford's 

 wife there, her husband being absent, Mr. Moody did earnestly and 

 passionately request her, that Sir Henry Knyvett might lack nothing 

 that was in her house or that she could do to save his life, and that 

 he would see her satisfied. He sent her messages after to the same 

 effect. Mr. Hungerford's wife performed all this. Sir Henry 

 Knyvett could not be removed for twenty-six days. The physicians 

 and surgeons sent by the Queen had the whole house. Mrs. 

 Hungerford provided them with lawns and cambrics, which were 

 spoiled and stained with blood and worn out. Hay was consumed 

 to the amount of £30, and many great trees were cut down for 

 fire- wood. There was a great concourse of friends of Sir Henry 

 Knyvett, much meat and victuals consumed. The house like to be 

 burned by reason of the great fires, if Lord Viscount Wallingford, 

 Sir Wm. Knightley, and others had not been present and by ex- 

 traordinary pains preserved the whole house. Mr. Moody promised 

 to recompense Mr. Hungerford for his losses, but the only recompense 

 Mr. Hungerford got was that one of his (Mr. Hungerford's) sons 

 was most dangerously and barbarously stabbed by one of the sons 

 of Mr. Richard Moody, by which young Hungerford was very 

 likely to have died. He languished of his wounds sixteen years, 

 costing his father much money. No other compensation being 

 made for all the expense they had incurred after the duel, an action 

 was brought and satisfaction sought from the Court of Chancery A 

 Garsden was at one time the property of the Washington family, 

 to one branch of which the famous George of America belonged ; 

 but, much as we might desire the honour, we cannot claim him as 

 a Wiltshire man. There is also another American celebrity to whom 

 we have just as little claim, William Penn, the founder of Pennsyl- 

 vania. The Penns were really a Buckinghamshire family. A 

 branch of it certainly was settled at Minety, and has left its name 

 at Penn's Lodge, in Braden ; but they removed to Bristol. Sir 

 William Penn, a celebrated admiral of Charles the Second's reign, 

 (often mentioned in Pepys's memoirs) was born and buried at Bristol, 

 and it was the admiral's son who founded Pennsylvania, but he was 

 born in London. I think it worth while to name this, because, 



