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but, as this is all fairly set out in the pedigrees of these families in Hutchins, and of the closely allied families of Clavell and Mansel therfe published, I will not take up space in going over it again here.

Atting upon this suggestion, I recently weni to the Public Record Office, the Treasury Office, and to the Office of Woods and Torests to each of which I was referred in tufti where riiy inquiries were courteously attended to by the various officials. But inasnluch as the scanty nature of the materials I was able to adduce was not considered to afford the necessary data upon which a search could be made with any reasonable prospect of success, it would seem that \n the absence of further evidence derived from family documents any advance in this matter is not likely to be achieved.

Canbn Mansel -Pley dell has, however, very kindly promised to make further researches amongst the family papers and to consult the agent of the estate upon the matter as opportunity serves, for " it would be a great pity," said he, " to lose all trace of so interesting a bit of family history."

There at present the matter must stand. However, I think it has now been fairly established, notwithstanding all the doubts "thrown upon the authenticity of the tradition by Hutchins and others, that not only was the story as told of the " White Hart Silver " not an apocryphal or an improbable one, but that the fine, so arbitrarily imposed more than six centuries ago, has been paid up to, and has only been finally compounded for in, quite recent times. This effectually disposes of the suggestion contained in Mr. Heath's account that the custom had only " survived to the days of the Great Re- bellion." J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

MEMBERS OF THE LONG

PARLIAMENT. (12 S. iii. 299, 366.)

1. John Fielder, M.P. for St. Ives from -circa April, 1647 (writ dated Feb. 9), till the Cromwellian dissolution, April, 1653. He was of Borough Court, Hants, s. and h. of John Fielder of the same place by Alice, <lau. and heir of William Cooke of Worpeden, Surrey (by Ann, eldest dau. of Sir George Tipping of co. Oxford, knight). Succeeded his father in the family estate in September, 1638. Sheriff of Hants, 1641-2. Took an active part on the Parliament side from the beginning of the Civil War, being at an early date appointed colonel of the local

forces to be raised in Hants and Sussex. From January, 1642/3, till January, 1644/5, he was Governor of Portsmouth ; and Governor of Farnham Castle from Apr. 5, 1645, until discharged Oct. 31 of the same year upon the fortifications of that castle being " slighted " by order of Parliament. By Parliamentary ordinance he was ap- pointed in 1643 on the Assessment and Sequestration Committees for Hants, and also on that for the Associated Counties ; and in the following year on the Committee for raising special forces in the county, on that for the General Assessment of East and West, and also for putting in Execution the Ordinances of Parliament. Though elected to Parliament in 1647, he took no active part in the proceedings of the House until 1649, doubtless because of military duties, and for the same reason was excused at the call of the Hov.se on Apr. 24, 1648. But between Feb. 20, 1649, and Mar. 1, 1653, he is named on, no fewer than 104 Parliamentary committees, including the important Committees for maintaining a Preaching Ministry, Irish Affairs, for taking the Engagement, Goldsmiths' Hall Com- pounding, Plundered Ministers, and the Navy Committee. He was also a Commissioner in the Act for removing obstructions to the sale of bishops' lands, 1649 ; was on July 21, 1649, appointed colonel of five companies of foot and one troop of horse at Donington, his pav as colonel and captain of foot to be 1.148Z." Us. Id. On Aug. 31, 1649, he was ordered to receive 1,2001. for his services as Governor of Portsmouth, and 1,148Z. his arrears generally, to be paid out of concealed delinquent estates to be discovered by him ; but this was ultimately ordered to be paid to him by the Committee for Compounding. Under the Commonwealth he was member of the third Council of State, 1651-2, and of the fifth Council, December, 1652, to April, 1653. Took no part in public affairs under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, though he was elected for Castle Rising to the Parliament of Richard Cromwell, and certainly sat in the same. He returned with the Rumpers in May, 1659, and sat on one or two committees, being fined 51. on Sept. 30 for non-attendance. After the second Restoration of the Rump in December he resumed his seat, and remained until the md of the Parliament in March, 1660, after which he disappears from history. I have failed to discover the date of his death. His wife was Margaret, eldest dau. of Sir John Trevor of Denbighshire, by whom he eft issue.