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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



in Wilts, being parcel of the prebend there, demised by the said 

 prebend to hold under the rent of £32 3*. 4>d. Yearly annual value 

 before the troubles, £167 16s. Hd. Out of which he presents a 

 claim of £40 a year paid to a curate. Fine, £100, because he 

 came in before the issue of the Propositions. Dated 6th July, 

 1649. Mr. Chappel not only had a son a captain in the Royal 

 army, but he had himself served in a military capacity. 



Henry Clarke, of Enford, Esq., second son of Sir Henry Clarke, 

 Knight. Having admitted in his petition that he was in arms 

 against the Parliament, he goes on to observe that he had never 

 been sequestered nor judicially impeached, but doubting that he 

 might be considered liable for something said or done by him in 

 relation to the second war (that of 1646), he desires to compound. 

 His petition is dated 4th May, 1649. 



Upon his marriage with Isabella Warwick, and upon the securing 

 of a thousand pounds by Philip Warwick, esq., to be afterwards 

 paid by the compounder to his father, and which was subsequently 

 secured by himself as soon as he came of age, 6th September, 1642, 

 his father, by deed dated 7th June, 1639, settled the lands here- 

 after mentioned, in manner following : — one moiety to the use of 

 himself, the said Sir Henry Clarke, for his life, remainder to the 

 compounder and his right heirs by his wife Isabella, remainder to 

 the heirs of Edward, third son of Henry; and the other moiety 

 upon the said Sir Henry Clarke during the joint lives of himself 

 and the compounder, for the use, after their lives, of Isabella herself 

 and the heirs of her body. The estate in question consisted of the 

 manor of Enford, with messuages, lands, and tenements there, worth 

 in demesnes, £177 a year, and in old rents, £6 15s. a year. The 

 only personal property he acknowledged, was a gelding and wearing 

 apparel to the value of £20. The fine was declared at £98 10s., 

 but he appears in the following year to have paid £80 more. 



Sir Henry Compton, of Brambletye, in Sussex, Knight of the 

 Bath, was reported as a recusant (Romanist) not in arms, though 

 he declares in his petition that he took the Covenant before the war 

 broke out. He is seised in Wilts of and in the manors of Plaitford, 



