By F. A. Carrington, Esq. 



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Stephen Duckett 

 George Scrope 

 Thomas Ckaffyn 

 William Pinekuey 

 William Eyre 

 William Webbe 

 Walter Hungerfbrd 

 William Sadler 

 Thomas Lodge 

 Nicholas St. John 

 Bartholomew Horsey 

 William Baskervile 

 William Jordan 

 Thomas Toppe 



Thomas Bennett 

 Thomasine Gro^e, Vidua 

 William Young 

 Anthony Distonf 

 William Kember 

 John Lovell 

 William Stamford 

 John Hunte 

 John Baylie 

 Thomas Joye 

 William Button 

 William Recor 

 Richard Barnard 

 John Thynne 

 I believe those marked t were inhabitants of Marlborough. 



In the year 1794 "the Marlborough troop of Yeomanry Cavalry/' 

 was raised by the late Marquis of Ailesbury, and has continued to 

 be a very efficient corps ever since ; and they did great service to 

 the country by putting down the agricultural riots in Wiltshire, 

 in the year 1830. This troop was at the beginning of the present 

 century nicknamed "the Potatoe Choppers," which arose in this 

 way. In one of the rides of Savernake forest, potatoes were put 

 on the tops of sticks, which the cavalry rode at, and at a full 

 gallop cut the potatoes off the sticks. James Nicholas of Durley 

 used to put the potatoes on the sticks ; and he also placed rings on 

 other sticks, for the cavalry in like manner to take off on the points 

 of their swords ; and I was assured by an eye witness that the 

 cavalry were very successful in these feats. 



The Civil Wars. 



King Charles I. passed the night of the 10th April, 1644, at 

 Marlborough, at Lord Seymour's, and was five nights on a visit to 

 his Lordship at Marlborough, from the 12th to the 17th of 

 November in the same year, when he went to the Bear at 

 Hungerford 1 . 



We also find from a letter that in 1642, 300 of the parliament 

 troopers quartered themselves in Marlborough and behaved ex- 

 ceedingly ill at the houses at which they were, and that the next 



1 Iter Carolinum, printed in the Rev. J. Gutch's Collect. Cur. vol. 20, 

 p. 432 and 438. 



