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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



advowson excepted, to William Grove, of Broadchalk. It now 

 belongs to the Metliuen family. 



Robert Bynge, of All Cannings, D.D. He left his habitation, 

 repaired to the King's quarters, and adhered to the forces raised 

 against the Parliament. He is seised during the life of his wife, 

 who holds the same "as jointeress " to a former husband, of and in 

 lands and messuages at Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire, of the 

 yearly value before the war of £35. Fine, at a third, £87 10,?. 

 Dated 16th May, 1649. Dr. Byng's wife was the daughter of 

 John St. Loe, of Broadchalk, by Elizabeth, the daughter of Lawrence 

 Hyde, of Hatch, Esq. 



Robert Chandler, of Wilton, gent. The father of this com- 

 pounder, namely, Richard Chandler, the Rector of St. Mary's, in 

 Wilton, was a presbyterian in principle and a friend to the Parlia- 

 ment's cause. His gift of £10 to the Wilts Committee is recorded 

 in their day book 16th May, 1645. But shortly after this we find 

 him in trouble, as testified by the following entry : — 



" 19 Nov. Robert Chandler, son of Mr. Chandler, the minister of Wilton, 

 hath been before us for his delinquency, and subscribed the sum of £40 to be 

 paid in ten days. He hath also taken the Negative Oath." 



This young man greatly distressed his father by quitting his 

 studies at Christ Church, Oxford, to join the Royal standard. He 

 served under Lord Hertford till the fiercely-contested fight at 

 Lansdowne, in 1643, which seems to have amply satisfied his martial 

 appetite, for from that date he sought the shelter of his father's 

 roof. But he was not to escape the scrutiny of the local seques- 

 trators, when, at the conclusion of the first war, the Falstone 

 Committee took his case in hand. As he had no estate of his own, 

 and as he was able by way of palliation to exhibit credentials of 

 having taken the Covenant in the presence of the minister of St. 

 Saviour's, Southwark, and also the Negative Oath, some of his 

 Salisbury neighbours came to his aid, to wit, Humphrey Ditton, 

 John Redes, and Robert Good, who, by means of a representation in 

 his favour, induced the London Committee to accept £50 from his 

 father as a quietus ; allowing, apparently, for the £40 already paid. 



