LIFE OF LORD SCUDAMORE. 
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A few days after he wrote the following letter to Sir Robert Pye, of which the draught is 
amongst the Scudamore MSS. of the Longworth Library, at St. Michael’s Priory : 
“ I humbly desire to redeeme my liberty with a sume of money, and doe conceive that the honourable house of Com¬ 
mons will not onely incline to suffer mee to receive this favour which they grant to many, but will also use me without rigour 
in the proportion of the mulct, the rather in regard my sufferings have been already great, and my doings onely such as have 
expressed conscientiousness of duty according to my understanding, without bitterness of mind towards persons, or sinister 
designes upon things.” He then details the injury to his property in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire—the hardships his 
wife had to go through, and his own sufferings, as being “ above the proportion of his desert .... for this action of 
Hereford, wherein I was but a Volunteer and had no command, and being heere casually and a sworn citizen and steward of 
the town, I knew not how in honor to run away from it just then when a force appear’d before it.” 
Endorsed by Lord Scudamore “Draught of Letter to Sir R. Pye, 1643, May.” 
Lord Scudamore thus found in London, that he was not to be so fortunate as he had been led 
to expect, either with regard to his personal liberty, or the possession of his property. He was 
delivered to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms, and having already been marked as a Delinquent, 
his house and property at Petty France, Westminster, had been sequestrated, in short he was a 
prisoner without other means than such as he had brought with him. His house had been seized, 
and his goods, even to the wardrobe and personal effects of Lady Scudamore, were ordered by 
the Parliament to be sold : 
“Die Lunse, 29 Maii, 1643. 
It is this day ordered by the Commons House of Parliament, that ye goods seized of the Lord Scudamore bee forthwith 
solde and ye Proceeds thereof employed for ye service of ye fforces under ye command of Sir William Waller. 
H. Elsynge, Cler. Pari. Dom. Com,” (Scudamore MSS.) 
Endorsed by Lord Scudamore. 
“ Copy of the order for sale of my goods in Petty France.” 
The goods were seized and removed to the Guildhall for sale. There is an Inventory among 
the Scudamore MSS. at the British Museum, dated May nth, 1643, and also another at St. Michael’s 
Priory, made by “ Norris a Joyner, Addle St., and Stone a Joyner, in Barbican.” They seem to have 
been sold at a great sacrifice since the whole contents of the mansion only realized £ 176 15s., 
whilst the valuation put upon them was £joo, in the list of Lord Scudamore’s losses. 
On the 21st of June, 1643, Lord Scudamore had to give a Bond for ;£ 1,000, with two sure¬ 
ties to John Hunt, Serjeant at Arms, to attend the Orders of Parliament. On July 10th, 1643, he 
was assessed on his property in London, that is on the house and tenements of Petty France, by 
the Parliamentary Assessors (sitting at Haberdashers Hall, London,) for the sum of ^1,500, which 
was ordered to be paid in ten days. 
It would seem that the removal of the goods from Petty France had stopped the income 
derived from it, for at the end of the year the Committee of Sequestration issue this order : 
Dec. 14, 1643. 
“ Foreasmuch as it appears to this committee that the Rents issuing out of Lord Scudamore’s House and Tenements 
at Petty ffrance doe amount to more than can be made of them, whereby noe benefit can come to the State by them, it is 
therefore ordered that the sequestration of the said House and Tenements be taken off and discharged.” 
John Jackson, Solicitor. 
This removal of sequestration and the sale of all the household contents, did not prevent 
