of the treatment by the Parliamentary officials of Royalist
"delinquents" and their friends, we here give further particulars.

A similar petition was presented by "John Bysse, gent." (given in
Royalist Composition Papers, 1st series, vol. 8, No. 167). Further,
Abigail Snowden bequeathed her interest in the above lease to Thos.
Toking, who was of Bucknall and of Ludgate Hill, London. Accordingly,
two years later, we have another attempt at recovery, as follows: "To the
Honourable Commissioners for compounding with Delinquents. The humble
petition of Thomas Toking, of Co. Lincoln, gent., sheweth, that a lease
was made to him by Abigail Snowden, widow, deceased, of the manor, &c.,
&c., which had been sequestered many years, for the delinquency of
Rutland Snowden . . . and that he (T. Toking) has more to offer, for the
clearing of his title. He prays therefore for a commission of enquiry.
21 Oct., 1652." Reply: "not sufficient proof."

The said Thos. Toking again petitions, stating, that he is willing, to
avoid further trouble, to submit to "a reasonable composition." This is
again "referred to Mr. Brereton," 7 Feb., 1653. On 21 Sep., 1653, the
order was issued that "the Petitioner be admitted for compounding."
Again "Referred to Mr. Brereton." The result, however, was that Mr.
Thomas Toking died before obtaining the "relief" petitioned for.

N.B. Besides the "delinquency" of having "adhered to, and assisted, ye
forces against the Parliament," it was charged against Rutland Snowden
that he had "more wives than one." He "rendered his estate in fee" at
Horncastle, in Nov., 1645, for which his fine, at one-tenth was 188
pounds (Royalist Composition Papers, 1st series, fol. 113). His son, a
second Rutland Snowden, was among the Benefactors of Horncastle, as he
bequeathed to the poor of the town, 1682, "one house of the yearly rent
of 26s.," to be "paid in bread, 6d. every other Sunday;" a considerably
larger sum at that time than now.

We find the names of Rutland Snoden of Horncastle, and Scrope Snoden of
Boston, in the list of Lincolnshire Gentry, entitled to bear arms, made
by the Heralds, at their Visitation in 1634; along with other well known
names in the neighbourhood, such as Dymoke, Heneage, Laugton,
Massingberd, Tyrwhitt, &c. (_Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. i, p. 106).
The Snowden arms are said, in Yorke's _Union of Honour_, to have been
"Azure a lion rampant, or." (_Lincs. Notes & Queries_, vol. iv, p.