Communicated ly Mr. James Wai/len. 



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values upon his several parcels of land, all amounting to the said sum of £470, 

 and that he may have his letters to the several counties accordingly. What 

 favour you shall shew my Lord Cromwell herein you shall oblige. 



" Your very loving friend, 



" Olivee Ceomwell." 



Mr. Ashe endorses Cromwell's letter thus : — " If it appears that 

 there be such a mistake as is here alledged, let it be amended as is 

 desired. John Ashe." 



Henry Danvers Earl of Danby, a native of Dauntesey, in 

 Wilts, where also he lies buried, was born in 1573, and lived to see 

 the breaking out of the Civil War, dying in January, 1643; described 

 as a nobleman " of a magnificent and munifical spirit/'' and one of 

 the most eminent of the Elizabethan statesmen. He commenced 

 public life in a military capacity in the Low Countries and in 

 France, afterwards served the Queen in Ireland, and at the age of 

 twenty-five was said by the Earl of Nottingham to be the best 

 sea-captain in England. James I. created him Baron of Dauntesey, 

 and Charles I. elevated him to the earldom of Danby. His income 

 latterly was supposed to be nearly £12,000 a year, equivalent to 

 more than £60,000 in modern money (?) . His portrait by Vandyke, 

 formerly in Lord Orford's collection, now belongs to W. H. H. 

 Hartley, of Lye Grove. 



Earl Danby died before Parliamentary sequestrators sat in 

 judgment ; but eventually Acton Drake, his executor, had to 

 exhibit a "Particular" of the estate, and a nominal fine of £21,597 

 was declared; but the claims of his brother, Sir John Danvers the 

 regicide, and of his sister, Lady Katharine Gargrave, having also 

 to be investigated and adjusted, nothing positive can be affirmed. 

 It will only be necessary in this place to state that the Earl by his 

 last will had nominated as heir to the bulk of his vast fortune his 

 nephew, Henry Danvers, son of Sir John Danvers by his second 

 wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Ambrose Dauntesey, of West Lavington, 

 of which more hereafter. Great part of the Earl's estate lay in 

 Oxfordshire. In Wiltshire he held the manors of Rusball, Radborne 

 cum Cowfield, part of Bradenstock and Clack, the manors of Whit- 

 church cum Milbourn, and of Lea and Cleverton, parcel of the 



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