The order for the pensioners of Highworth Hundred, Wiltshire and Kingsbridge Hundred, Wiltshire, 8 July 1678
<Wiltes[hire] s[ession]s>
In pursuance of an ord[e]r of the Gen[er]all Quarter Sessions held att the Devizes on the 9th day of Aprill last past. These Penc[i]oners viz:
The Hundred of Hyghworth
Thomas Arden of Blunsden
Joell Catchaside of Hyghworth
Thomas Gibbes of the same
John Hayward of Purton
Henry Hybert of Hyghworth
Richard Herbert of Lyddyard Millicent
William King of Marston
John Lynton of Ashton Keynes
Robert Looker of Lyddyard Millicent
John Morse of the same
Humphry Stanly of Purton
Robert Thrift of Lyddyard Millicent
John Woram of Hyghworth
John Mall of Purton
Kingsbridge Hundred
William Butcher of Wotton Bassett
John Butcher of the same
Richard Brind of Wanbrough
Joseph Clarke of Wotton Bassett
Nicholas Webb of the same
Have appeared before us this day and wee doe find that they are Penc[i]oned by ord[e]r of Sessions and wee conceave that their pr[e]sent condic[i]ons require the Penc[i]ons they now receave and wee find none capable to serve his Ma[jes]tie in the pr[e]sent Warr save onely John Franclyne who is as wee are informed at pr[e]sent in his Ma[jes]ties service. Wee are further informed that some are dead, viz
Of the Hundred of Hyghworth
Edward Bray of Purton
Jeffery Cantrey of Lyddyard Millicent
William Dowleswell of Purton
Francis Hicks of the same
William Lynton of Ashton Keynes
Henry Leader of Hyghworth
Edward Leader of the same
Nicholas Pitchard of Purton
John Painter of Stratton St Margretts
Of the Hundred of Kingsbridge
Richard Norroway of Wotton Bassett
John Pratt of Lyddyard Tregoze
And that
Of Hyghworth Hundred
Nicholas Kifft of Lyddyard Millicent
Francis Rosier of Hyghworth
Of Kingsbridge Hundred
Christopher Cleeter of Ufcott
John Francklyne of Lyddyard Tregoze
Francis Scull of Tocknam
John Wollford of Lyddyard Tregoze
Did not appeare and therefore we can give noe account of them
July 8th 1678.
Tho[mas] Benet
T[homas] Chamberlayne