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The Wills/dre Compounders. 



Elizabeth Arundel, widow of a recusant, paid £60. 

 James Awdley, Earl op Castleiiaven. 



In respect of the Wiltshire estates in this sequestration, no other 

 papers have been found but a schedule of meadows at Eyford, and a 

 petition from Elizabeth, Countess of Castlehaven, 9th April, 1652, 

 praying that, as her life interest in the manors of Compton Basset, 

 Studley, and Baverstock, in Wilts, and others in Kent, parcel of 

 the lands of James, Earl of Castlehaven, delinquent, had been 

 recognised by the Committee of Obstructions, she might be allowed 

 to enjoy them without further molestation. No composition men- 

 tioned. 



Hartgild Baron, of Mere, gentleman. He adhered to the forces 

 raised against the Parliament ; for which his delinquency he humbly 

 prays permission to compound; — petition dated 22nd August, 1650. 

 Fine, £1 135. 4sd. His own mode of spelling his Christian name 

 has been here preserved; though Hartgild be only another variety 

 of Hartgill, the name of the victims in the Stourton tragedy ; 

 otherwise spelt in still earlier documents, Hardgull, and latterly 

 Hargill. This gentleman's losses in the royal cause appear to 

 have been amply made up to him. As the ag-ent in " hazardous 

 secret service" he actually got a promise from Charles II. when at 

 Breda, for a pension of £200 a year for thirty-one years ; which 

 was duly ratified some time after the King's return, about 1662. 

 At the same time he also acquired the office of Steward of the Court 

 of Record in Windsor Castle ; and the reversion (after John Hill) 

 of that of ranger and bailiff of Battle's Walk, Windsor. He was 

 the first to announce (so it is stated in one of his petitions) to the 

 exiled Court at Breda the determination of the Parliament of 

 England to declare for a Restoration. 



John Bennett, of South Marston, gent. He rode in arms as a 

 captain of horse for the King, but rendered himself to the Wilts 

 Committee in 1644, when for further satisfaction he took both the 

 National Covenant and the Negative Oath. Edmund Martyn, 

 Robert Brown, Thomas Goddard, and William Jesse, of the Wilts 

 Committee, testify that as to Captain Bennett's estate, real and 



