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State Papers: Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, relating to Sir Edward Berkley of Pill, Somerset, dated 1646.

(Catalogue reference: SP 23/193 folio 49)

1. S[i]r Edward Berkley of Pull al[ia]s Pill
2. in the County of Som[m]ersett Kn[igh]t
3. His Delinquency that he was in Armes against the Parliam[en]te and in
4. Oxford at the tyme of the Surrender, and is to have the benefitt
5. of these Articles, as by S[i]r Thomas Fairfax Certificate of the
6. 24th of June 1646 doth appeare,
7. He hath neither taken the negative oath nor Nat[i]onall Covenant but
8. prayes to be spared therein, upon the said Articles, and the
9. vote of the Howse of Com[m]ons pursuant.
10. He compounds upon a perticuler delivered in under his hand by which he
11. doth submitt to such Fine etc and by which it doth appeare.
12. That he is seised of a Franckten[emen]te for life, the remainder to Edward
13. Berkley his sonne and heire
14. of and in certaine old rents parcell of the Mannours of Pull and
15. Danniett in the County of Som[m]ersett, beinge togither of the
16. yeerely value before theis troubles £20

[Margin] £20

17. That he is seized of a like estate of and in the demeasne of the said
18. Mannour of Pull, and of certaine Woods renneinge and encreasinge
19. in the parish of Danniett, and of other Lands and Ten[emen]ts lyinge
20. and beinge in Gillingham and Maperton in the said Countye
21. all perticulerly ment[i]oned in the perticuler of his estate, and
22. are togither of the yeerely value before theis troubles £300

[Margin] £300

23. That he is seized of a Franckten[emen]te duringe three lives, of and in
24. certaine Lands & ten[emen]ts lyinge in Wraxall in the said Countye
25. of the yeerely value before theis troubles over and above
26. the rent reserved £13 6 s 8 d

[Margin] £13 6 s 8 d

27. 1 december 1646
28. Jerom[e] Alexander Fine att a tenth D Watkins
29. £740
30. the Fathers fine upo[n] the reven[ue]

[Margin] recomnitted

31. is £680 that is S[i]r Edw[ard] Berkelys
32. fine, And his sonnes fine £860
33. <but at afixt £1300>
34. Fined 5to Decembre 1646 p[ai]d 11 0 Martij 1646