Footnotes

ʻLANDS LATELY CLAIMED BY EDMUND LUDLOW' – CHARLES II CONFISCATES LAND FROM ONE OF HIS FATHER'S KILLERS.

Ludlow had been one of Charles I's judges and signed the death warrant, but afterwards turned against Cromwell for betraying the cause when he became Protector. After Oliver's death, he played a major part in the overthrow of Richard Cromwell and, as a member of the Council of State, did his utmost to maintain the republic. At the Restoration he surrendered to the Speaker and was allowed his liberty upon giving sureties for his appearance when required.

However, late in August 1660, fearing that his life was in imminent danger, he escaped to Dieppe via Lewes. The Government, who were not sure of his whereabouts, issued a reward for his arrest on 1 September 1660: ʻTwice during the autumn his capture was actually announced... In October 1661 he was said to be lurking in Cripplegate. Spies reported that forty thousand old soldiers were pledged to rise in arms, and fanatics asserted that a few days would see Ludlow the greatest man in England. No rumour was too absurd to find credit. In July 1662 he was to head a rising in the west of England. In November he had been seen at Canterbury, disguised as a sailor, and soldiers scoured Kent and Sussex to find him... It was believed that Ludlow had bound himself by an oath never to make his peace with the king, to refuse pardon and favour if they were offered to him, and to wage perpetual war with all tyrants... Meanwhile Ludlow quietly travelled through France, and established himself at Geneva, in the house of an Englishwoman' (C. H. Firth, ODNB). Apart from one return to London during the reign of William III, Ludlow spent the rest of his life in exile, dying in Vevey in 1692; his celebrated (if not wholly authentic) Memoirs being published in 1698-9.

East Knoyle, fifteen miles west of Salisbury, belonged to the see of Winchester and was sold to Ludlow in 1650 by the Trustees for the Sale of Bishops' Lands, being restored to Winchester in 1661. In 1650 Ludlow also acquired the remains of a lease on Knoyle Manor that had been granted by the Bishop of Winchester to Elizabeth I. This was assigned by Charles II to Chancellor Hyde's eldest son, Henry, in 1661 (for full details, see VCH, Wiltshire, Volume 11, Downton Hundred; Elstub and Everleigh Hundred). Shortly before our grant was made, Hyde's daughter Anne had married, on 3 September 1660, James Duke of York, the future James II. That November Hyde was granted a barony and the following April made Earl of Clarendon.