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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



person freed from arrests or restraint upon any civil actions or attachments— Yet 

 Thomas Shergold, of Hindon, in Wilts, gent., did confederate with the Sheriff of 

 Middlesex and with Daniel Marwood and Thomas Gardiner, of Sarum, and put 

 an open affront on him by arresting him and carrying him prisoner to the under- 

 sheriff then sitting in Westminster Hall. And your petitioner having sold a 

 small estate which he had in Wiltshire in order to pay his composition at 

 Goldsmith's Hall, and deposited the money with Mr. Robert Gall, a London 

 merchant, one William Moyle, your petitioner's late servant, taking encourage- 

 ment by Shergold's example, hath attached the said money in Gall's hand, and 

 goes about to condemn it in the sheriff's court. Your petitioner, therefore, prays 

 that such reparation may be made him and such punishment inflicted on the 

 offenders as your wisdoms may deem agreeable to justice and honour." 



No farther notice occurs. 



Gregory Cromwell, Baron Cromwell of Ockham, the only son of 

 Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (Henry the Eighth's minister), 

 married Elizabeth Seymour, of Wolfhal], sister of Queen Jane 

 Seymour, in whose posterity the title of Lord Cromwell remained 

 for several generations. This accounts for estates in Wilts being 

 held by the Lord Cromwell of the Civil War era, such as Countess 

 Farm, near Amesbury, and others. They are referred to in the 

 Falstone day book, 3rd October, 1645, and 1st April, 1646. 



The following letter, written in 16i6, in behalf of Thomas Lord 

 Cromwell, by his kinsman, Oliver Cromwell, was addressed to 

 Robert Jenner, M.P. for Cricklade, as a member of the Goldsmith's 

 Hall Committee. From a subsequent letter of Cromwell's to Jenner, 

 and to John Ashe, the Member for Westbury, it would almost seem 

 that these two Wiltshire gentlemen were the Duumviri of the Court 

 of Sequestrations. The letter here following has never yet been 

 published. 



The Lieutenant- General Oliver Cromwell, "To my loving friend Mr. 

 Jenner, at Goldsmith's Sail. 29th October, 1646. 



" Sir, My lord Cromwell upon the putting in of his ' particular ' into Gold- 

 smith's Hall, knowing what the whole value of his estate amounted unto yearly, 

 gave it in at £470 in general ; which was the true value of the whole lying in several 

 counties. But not being so perfect in the particular values of the several parcels 

 of his estate, having trusted it constantly to the managing of others, did give in his 

 lands in Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire at £350 per annum, whereas the 

 true value is but £255, and his lands in Wiltshire but £120, whereas the true 

 value is £215 per annum, both amounting to the said sum of £470, for which 

 he. compounded. My Lord desires that he may have liberty to set the several 



