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a rent of £3 6Y Sd. paid to the lessor, before the troubles worth 

 more, £36. 



Out of this estate Mr. Bennett pays yearly to his son, Anthony, 

 £160, settled by deed dated 2nd October, 17th Car., and to his 

 sister, Mrs. Jessie Bennett, to hold during the term of her life, £3 ; 

 to his aunt Mrs. Jane Hunt, widow, during her life, if the com- 

 pounder so long live, an annuity of £8. 



The following entry respecting his fine is dated 18th September, 

 1646, "On reviewing his whole case, £1000." This thousand 

 pounds, therefore, was probably advanced by his kinsman, William 

 Hitchcock, Esq., of Miles's Court, Essex, as may be inferred from 

 the following letter, dated some months previously, to the com- 

 pounding committee sitting at Goldsmith's Hall : — 



" Honoured Gentlemen. Be pleased to take notice that whereas one Mr. 

 Thomas Bennett my kinsman hath desired me to make composition with your 

 honours, for the delinquency of him and of his son John Bennett, I have ac- 

 cordingly spent what time I could possibly spare three or four several days 

 within these fourteen days last past at your committee-room, to be heard ; but 

 could not obtain the favour, in regard your honours have been so full of business. 

 My humble desire is that now, seeing my occasions call me into the country, my 

 cousin may not suffer for my absence. One Mr. Coombes who knoweth my 

 cousin Bennett will attend ; and when by him I may know your honours' pleasure 

 what the fine to be imposed shall be, I will speedily apply myself to procure the 

 money. My cousin is out of a good sum of money already, which I trust your 

 honours will tenderly consider of, together with his condition, having ten children 

 and no estate in any thing but only for his own life, which humbly premising, 

 I rest, your servant to be commanded. Dated from Myies's in Essex, 26 Dec. 

 1645. 



"William Hitchcock. 



John Bennett, of Pyt House, gentleman. He was iu arms 

 against the Parliament, having ridden as a trooper in Colonel 

 Strangway's regiment. He submitted before the 1st of December, 

 1645, and presented his first petition in the following July, having 

 taken both the oaths. 



He is seised of a freehold during three lives (if he shall attain 

 the age of 21, being now only 18), of and in Critchell Farm, in 

 Dorset, held of Lord Arundel, yielding before these troubles a yearly 

 rent of £27 6«s. 8d. over and above a reserved rent of £2 13s. M, 

 He is seised of a like estate in a tenement called Hatchfield, in 



