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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



taken prisoner at Shaftesbury he was not acting in opposition to 

 the Parliament, but was merely attending- the market. " His fine 

 was at first set at £2000, not according 4 to the condition of his estate, 

 but according" to the nature of his offence, for which, at that time 

 [just after the club-rising], there was no certain rule given by the 

 Parliament, by which he and those in his condition should compound. 

 But since the fine was set an Order of the House of 4th May 1646 

 has directed that such of the clubmen as come in to compound shall 

 have the benefit of the Propositions as other delinquents, according 

 to their respective comings in ; and he having come in before 1 st 

 of December and taken the Oath and Covenant, and his estate 

 according to the e particular 9 returned out of the county appearing 

 to be as follows." 



He is seised of a freehold for life; remainder to Anthony Bennett, 

 his son, for life, and to his first son in tail, &c. — of and in divers 

 messuages, lands, and tenements in the parishes of Tisbury, Knowell, 

 Donhead, Gillingham, and Shaftesbury ; annual value before the 

 troubles, £370. A like estate of old-rents issuing out of lands and 

 tenements in the said parishes, £25 12*. 4^. He is possessed of 

 the remainder of a farm for ninety- nine years, if three lives shall 

 so long live, of certain lands and tenements lying and being in 

 Savernak, holden by demise of and from the lord Marquis of Hart- 

 ford, at the yearly rent of 2*. §d. } and worth, over and above this 

 reserved rent, £100 before the troubles. The reversion of this is 

 settled on Christopher Bennett, his son. He is possessed of the 

 remainder of a term for ninety-nine years determinable upon three 

 lives, of and in Penley Farm, in Wilts, for which he pays to the 

 Lord S tour ton per annum £10 and two capons, and to the Earl of 

 Marlborough £20. Over and above these sums it was worth £109 

 before the troubles. He is possessed of a like estate for ninety-nine 

 years, with like provisions, in lands at Hatherley, in Somerset, 

 holden of Mr. Gawen at a rent of forty shillings ; worth more, £14. 

 And a similar estate at Semley, at a rent of twenty shillings; worth 

 more, £13. The like at Chilmark, holden by demise from William 

 Jessie, formerly worth £16 a year. The remainder of a term having 

 twenty-two years to run, in a tenement at Hatch, for which there is 



