CROMWELL'S PARLIAMENT.

Names of the members for Worcestershire returned for Cromwell's second Parliament, July, 1654: Sir Robert Rouse, Knt. and Bart., Edward Pitt, Esq., Nicholas Lechmere, Esq., John Bridges, Esq., Talbot Badger, Esq., (Worcester City), William Collins, Esq. (ditto), Edward Elvines, Alderman (ditto). The names of the gentlemen returned to Parliament on September 17, 1656, are—Major-General James Berry, Colonel of Horse, and Major-General of the counties of Worcester, Hereford, and Salop, and also North Wales; Sir Thomas Rouse, Bart., Edward Pitt, of Kiere Park, Esq., Nicholas Lechmere, Esq. (Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster), John Nanfan, Esq., Worcester City.—Edmund Giles, Esq., one of the Masters in Chancery, who married a relation of the Lord Protector; William Collins, Esq.

WORCESTERSHIRE ROYALISTS COMPOUNDING.

By an ordinance of the Parliament[10] made on the 31st of March, 1643, it was ordained that the estates of the two Archbishops and twelve of the Bishops, including the Bishops of Worcester, Hereford, Gloucester, and Coventry and Lichfield, and of all persons ecclesiastical and temporal as had
raised arms or been in active war against the Parliament, or
had voluntarily contributed any money, horse, plate, arms, munition, or other aid or assistance, towards the maintenance of any forces against the Parliament, should be sequestered.

[10] This ordinance will be found in extenso in Scobell's Collection of Acts and Ordinances of Parliament (a work in the Worcester Law Library) p. 37.

The owners of these estates were allowed to pay a composition for the restoration of their property. A list of the compounders and the sum paid by each was printed in 1655 by Richard Dring. The following is a copy of the title page of this work:

"A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen, that have compounded for their estates. London: Printed for Thomas Dring, at the signe of the George in Fleet-street, neare Clifford's Inn. 1655."

[Extract so far as relates to Worcestershire.]

£. s. d.
Acton, George, Stilden, Worcest., Esq.01200000
Ablely, John, of Worcester, Yeoman00101600
Berkley, Sir Rowland, of Cotheridg, Com. Worcester 2030 00 00
Bromley, Henry, Holt Castle, Worc., Esq.40000000
Bushell, Anthony, Cleeve Prior, Worc.00050000
Barkley, Thomas, of Worc., Gent.04231304
Broad, Edm., of Stone, Worc., Gent.01150000
Bache, Tho., of Worc. Citty, Gent.00021000
Bayly, Thomas, of Evesham, Worc.00030608
Clare, Sir Ralph, Cawdwell, Worc.02980000
Churge, Burbage, of Worc., Gent.00080608
Child, Will., of Shrawley, Worc., Esq.18441808
Cupper, Henry, Woodcock, Worc., Gent.01011500
Davis, Edward, Droitwich, Worc., Gent.01900000
Day, Philip, of Witchfield, Worc., Gent.00150000
Defell, Thos., Senior, Sturbridg, Worc.00600000
Evet, John, of Woodhall, Worc., Gent.02250000
Evans, William, of Worcester, Gent.03590000
Freeman, John, of Buckley, Worc., Gent.03800000
Fortescue, John, Cookhill, Esq.0234 155
Hacket, Henry, Grymley, Worc., Gent.03000000
Herbert, Sir Hen., of Ribsford, Worc., Knt.13300000
Ingram, Henry, of St. Jones, Worc.00210000
Lawrance, Giles, Bengworth, Worc.00161304
Littleton, Sir Edward, p. Fisher Littleton, and Francis Nevell, Esq.13470608
Midlemore, Robert, Mosley, Worcester, Gent.04000000
Mucklow, Thomas, Arley, Worcester, Gent.00450000
Midlemore, George, of King's Norton, Com. Worcester, Esq.01671408
Mucklow, William, of Arley, Worcester, Gent.03600000
Moore, Francis, Seavern Stock, Worcester, Gent.01210000
Not, Sir Thomas, of Obden, Com. Worcester, Knight03540700
Norwood, Henry, Bishampton, Worcester00150000
Nanfan, Bridges, of Worcester, Gent.00800000
Packington, Sir John, of Alisbury, Buckingham, Baronet, with £190 per annum, as settled50000000
Pennel, Edward, Lineridge, Worcester, Gent.00600000
Pitts, Scudamore, St. John's, Worcester00180000
Russel, Sir William, of Strentham, Worcester, Baronet, with £50 per annum setled for £1018000000
Shelden, William, of Bromsgrave, Worcester00960000
Shrimpton, Iohn, Norton, Worcester00001200
Sandis, Martin, Ombersly, Worcester, Gent.00410304
Stratford, Anthony, Bushly, Worcester, Gent.00400000
Shrimpton, Thomas, of Kingsham, Worc.00001600
Sands, Sir Martin, of St. Michael in Bedwardine, Worcester, with £50 per annum setled02100000
Seabright, Sir Edward, Besford, Worcester18090000
Talbot, Sherrington, Salwarp, Worcester20110000
Tyat, Daniel, of Worcester, Apothecary02700000
Tomkins, Nathaniel, Elmridge, Worcester02081608
Twitty, Thomas, of Claines, Worcester, Gent.00021000
Tyrer, John, of Ludley, Worcester, Gent.06500000
Twynning, John, of Fladbury, Worcester, Yeoman00191008
Vernon, Edward, of Hanbury, Worcester, Gent.04000000
Wilde, Robert, of Worc., Gent.05760000
Washburn, John, Wickenford, Worc., Gent.07971000
Winford, Sir John, of Astly, Worcst., Knight07031300
Wainwright, Robert, of Hol, Worcester00010000
Washington, Henry, of Worcester, Gent.00150000
Wainwright, Francis, Holt, Worcest., Yeoman00120000

To this payment Worcestershire does not appear to have been very heavily charged, as the entire list contains upwards of 3500 names, extending over the whole of England and Wales. The largest payment was that made by Baptist Noel Lord Cambden, which amounted to £9000, "with £150 per annum settled," which in the case of Sir Richard Tancred, Knt., is explained to be "settled on the Ministry." The smallest payment is that of Mr. John Shrimpton above-mentioned. It is stated in the "Pictorial History of England" [vol. iii, p. 525] that by these compositions above £4,500,000 were raised in England, and £1,000,000 in Ireland.