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LIFE OF LORD SCUDAMORE. 
somewhat fulsome, dated October 5th, 1646, from Mr. J. Bromwich, the Chairman of the Gloucester 
Committee of Sequestration, who it seems was a cousin of his Lordship’s, in which he speaks of him¬ 
self, as “ a much honorer of your parts and personall abilities ” and offers to send up a certificate in 
his favour, and do all in his power to assist him. 
Lord Scudamore used every effort he could make, and all the influence he possessed to regain 
his liberty. His friends however for the most part were not in favour with the Parliament, and all 
his efforts for a long time were in vain. Gibson gives the secret of his want of success. “ I find that 
after all his Losses and Sufferings , he was very hardly admitted to compound ; having stood out 
so long and still standing out against the Negative-Oath , which he would never take : Because he 
conceived himself bound not to withdraw his obedience from the King.” (Gibsons “ Dore , &c,” 
p. no.) 
There is no mention made in the MSS. of the prison in which Lord Scudamore was confined ; 
nor is the date or order for his release to be found there. The order from the Gloucester Com¬ 
mittee to take off the Sequestration, “ in regard that he hath compounded at Goldsmith’s Hall for 
his Estate” is in the British Museum, and is dated November 24th, 1646, but it would seem that his 
refusal to take the Negative Oath still barred the way. Gibson states that “he suffered three 
Year’s and ten Months’ Imprisonment, which occasioned his Lordship so great Sickness, as he very 
hardly survived ” (p. 109.) This would make the date of his release to be in February, 1647. 
The following rough draft of the “ Catalogue of Losses ” is from the Scudamore MSS., at the 
British Museum, and is meant to represent the whole of his Losses by the Civil War: 
Llanthony, near Gloucester. 
Household furniture ... 
Trees ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 
Besides sheds and mounts, that tenants quarrell (sic) 
Pay and rent two Mansion Houses, with extrordinary outhouses ruined for ye 
Defence of Glocester, which will not be got into the condition they were in 
(for less than) 
Much of the materials being carried into Glocester to make upp their owne 
buildings there. 
Petty France. 
Household Furniture, Clothes, &c. 
Home Lacey. 
Household Furniture, Lynin, Books, &c. 
Horses ... ... .. ... ... ... ••• 
Sequestrating my Estate in Glostershire, 4 years 
Sequestration of my Estate in Herefordshire, 1 yeare, and 
My sonne hath out of my Estate settled upon him pound ,£500 10s.—at 15 
yeare’s purchase is ... ... ... ... ... 7>5 00 
Debts ... ••• ••• ••• ••• jj 
Fine at Goldsmith’s Hall (besides the Charges of Sequestration ... ... 2 , 79 ° 
These figures amount only to ,£24,490, but Gibson says “ by a fair estimate which I have 
seen he suffered in his Estate to the value of thirty seven thousand , six hundred\ and ninety 
pounds ” (“ Dore , dfc.” p. 109) so that the figures of the preceding blanks were no doubt 
filled in. 
£ 
600 
1,200 
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10,000 
700 
1,200 
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