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Walter Bockland, of Downton, in Wilts, and of Trotton, in 

 Sussex, Esq. He was in arms against the Parliament during the 

 first war; he petitioned before 6 December, 1645, but was refused 

 composition on the alleged ground that he had been a papist in 

 arms. To purge himself he signed the oath of abjuration before 

 Alderman Adams, Lord Mayor of London, 4th June, 1646, received 

 the sacrament at St. Margaret's, Westminster, from the hands of 

 Dr. Samuel Gibson, and exhibited proof that he had also taken it 

 at Salisbury in 1641, from Benjamin Blaxton, of Westhorny. 

 Moreover, in August, 1646, he took both the Covenant and the 

 Negative Oath. His estate in Sussex he estimates at £190 10*. 

 per annum ; that in Wiltshire, consisting of demesnes and quit 

 rents in Downton, is of the yearly value of £186, but a third of it 

 is his mother's dowry. He therefore compounded for two-thirds, 

 though £20 additional was charged on it for his uncle, Walter 

 Bockiand. Total fine for Wilts and Sussex, put at a sixth, but 

 afterwards at a tenth, was £696 ; declared 7th December, 1649. 



Andrew Bowerman, of Stratford-under-the-Castle, D.D. He is 

 seised for the term of two lives in being, of and in the rectory and 

 parsonage impropriate of Stratford ; also a farm and mill there, 

 held under the Dean and Canons of Sarum, worth £100 a year over 

 and above the reserved rent of £46 Vs. Sd. Fine at a tenth, 

 £125. 



Sir William Button, of Shaw, otherwise o£ Alton Priors, 

 Bart. His delinquency. That he voluntarily left his habitation, 

 resided at Oxford, adhered to the King's party, and hath taken 

 neither the Negative Oath nor the National Covenant. He was at 

 Oxford at the surrender, and is to have the benefit of the articles 

 thereof. He is seised of a frank patent for life in land at Shaw, in 

 Overton, and at Phillips-Norton and Welbecke, with remainder to 

 his son, Robert Button, annual value before these troubles, £170. 

 Also old rents in Wilts, Somerset, and Hants, £75 ; the above being 

 settled by Sir William Button by deed dated 5th August, 19th 

 Car. (with a clause of revocation), in consideration of natural love 

 and affection. He is seised of a freehold for life in the demesne of 



