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 POLITICAL HISTORY Mackworth, and forty others,"* and it seems noteworthy that the Hst of signatories includes the names of only teii of those who compounded"^ and Jive of those who were ' decimated ' by Major-General Boteler."° The clergy of the county also manifested their loyalty during 1660 in a form which must have been even more gratifying to the king, for they united with those of six other counties in making him a ' voluntary present,' which was appro- priated for the pay of the king's servants."^ One of the most influential of the signatories to the congratulations, the Duke of Buckingham, soon after severed his connexion with Rutland by the sale, necessitated by his extravagance, of Burley to Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham."* Another Viscount Campden was made captain of a troop of horse, and was appointed lord lieutenant of the county in i66o,"''* when he also received a commission from the king to ' preserve ye game in Rutland.' The law on this subject seems to have fallen into abeyance during the Civil Wars and the Protectorate, for this commission, after reciting that ' Our Game of all sorts is unlawfully disturbed and destroyed by divers leud persons within our county of Rutland and places adjacent against whom no ordinary means have been sufficient to prevent their unlawful practices in the kind,' commands and requires ' Our most trusty and well beloved cousin ' to use his ' best care and watchfulness by all ways to prevent such insolences,' and authorizes him to apprehend and bring to justice the offenders, and seize all guns, nets, &c., of all kinds."" Campden appears from henceforth to have devoted himself to local affairs, and died at Exton 20 October 1682."' His son Edward was raised a step in the peerage by his creation as Earl of Gains- borough six weeks after his father's death. "^* Reprisals against the Parliamentarians began within six months of the Restoration by the appointment, in November 1660, of commissions 'to in- quire of and seize ' the estates of traitors, and a list of those in twenty-four counties of England and Wales, which accompanies the warrant issued for this purpose by Treasurer Southampton to the king's remembrancer, gives the names of three in Rutland — Thomas Waite, Francis Hackett, and Henry Smith. "^ Waite surrendered, and though he was condemned to death as a regi- cide his life was spared, and he was kept in prison at Jersey until 1668, when nothing more is known of him."' Abel Barker received a pardon for his participation in the revolutionary government, and showed his public spirit by writing to Philip Sherard, one of the members for the county in the Restoration Parliament, to point out the excessive burden of taxation laid on Rutland and the neighbouring counties by the parliamentary arrangements '" These are : — Sir Thomas Hartopp ; Sir Richard Wingfield ; Sir Euseby Pelsant ; Sir Wingfield Bodenham ; George, Francis, and Henry Sherard, esqs., Edward Heath, esq., Samuel Browne, esq., Abel Barker, esq., William Palmes, esq., Henry, Robert, Neale, and Peregrine Mackworth ; James Digby, esq., Alexander and Andrew Noel ; Edmund Faulkner ; Richard Fancoate ; Charles and John Wing ; Francis Wingfield ; Jervice Day ; Henry Foster ; William Hartopp ; Geo. Sheffield ; William Hide ; Benjamin Bodenham; William Cheseldine ; William Jopson (?Jepson); Charles Tod; Thomas Trollope ; George, John, Robert, and Francis Heath ; Ezekiel and Daniel Johnson ; and Richard and Charles Halford. '" Cf. note 116, p. 196. "^ Cf. note 141, p. 199. '" Cal. Treas. Bks. 1660-7, P- 3oi- "' Pearl Finch, Hist. Burley on the Hill, 8. ''' Diet. Nat. Biog. ""' Rut. Mag. iii, 28. '^' Diet. Nat. Biog. •"'G.E.C. Complete Peerage. '«' Cal. Treas. Bks. 1660-7, p. 93. "' See Diet. Nat. Biog. for the peculiar circumstances of his trial. I 201 26