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year out of the estates of Francis Lord Cottington and Ulick Earl 

 of St. Albans : — 



" Be it enacted that he be actually possessed and seised of the manors of 

 Han worth and Feltham, in the county of Middlesex, late the inheritance of 

 Francis Lord Cottington ; the manors of Fon thill, alias Nether-Fonthill, 

 Fonthill-Gifford, Fonthill-Charter-house, Fonthill Delawarre, East Hatch, Week, 

 and Fernhill, all in Wilts ; the advowson of the Church of Fonthill ; and the 

 enclosed parks, lands, woods, and hereditaments either in Wilts of Ashellsdown ; 

 the manor of Bluberry, in Berks, Freemantle Park, in Hants ; Brewham and 

 Brewcombe Walk and Lodge, in Frome Selwood, lately divided from Selwood 

 Forest. Also the manors of Timberwood and Baynhurst, in Kent, with the 

 tenements in Eastchalk and Westchalk there. Somerhill Park, at Tunbridge 

 (late the inheritance of Ulick Earl of St. Alban's, a papist now in arms in 

 Ireland). To have and to hold in as ample and beneficial a manner as the said 

 Lord Cottington, Ulick Earl of St. Albans, or any person or persons in trust for 

 either of them, enjoyed or might have enjoyed the same before their respective 

 delinquencies." 



We have now to picture to ourselves the ex-President seeking to 

 recruit his broken health by perambulating the beautiful domain of 

 which he had become the owner. He was at Fonthill when the 

 news reached him of Richard Cromwell's deposition, and of the 

 restoration of the Long Parliament ; and, anxious to take part in 

 the revival of his beloved Commonwealth, he hastened to London, 

 where in a few weeks he expired, in November, 1659. 



Edward Cresset, of Marlborough, Esq., M.A., of Oriel College, 

 Oxford, and a practiser of physic. As a prominent Royalist he 

 compounded at an early date for " delinquency » with the county 

 committee, to what amount uncertain, but he escaped the ordeal of 

 Goldsmith's Hall. His epitaph in St. Peter's, which describes him 

 as a most affectionate son of the Church of England, states that he 

 had bequeathed £160 for the equal and perpetual benefit of the 

 ministers of the two Churches of St. Peter and St. Mary, so long 

 as they should continue as then by law established, but when 

 otherwise, then to go to the almshouse in the Marsh. He died in 

 1693, at the age of a hundred and seven years. 



Thomas Lord Cromwell, Baron of Ockham, in Surrey, petitioned 

 the Peers in November, 1646 : — 



" Shewing, that whereas your petitioner, being a peer of this realm, ought by 

 the laws of the land and the undoubted customs of the kingdom to have his 



