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264 THE ANCESTOR estate (not only by the loss of great sums of money and chargeable law suits, but by his absence from his chief rents, his actual delinquency and sequestration, his being plundered both at Longford and Totteridge, and afterwards highly taxed and decimated for not taking covenants and engagements. After this, I say, his Lordship's desire and delight returned again for Longford, which for some years before he looked not to see again, but in rubbish, and then, like Nehemiah, he was impatient till he had begun a repair. Revisiting this house (circa anno 1650) to see what his egregious tenants on both sides (agreed to prejudice him) had left behind, his Lordship was saluted with nothing but filthiness and desolation, except it were an infinite swarm of fleas, that pitched upon his white boot- hose, there was no other living creature left for him, who was forced to leave behind him (when he went out of the house) a gallant dairy of Dutch cOws, a great flock of wethers, yards full of poultry, and barns stored with provisions, yet was he nobly satisfied, that (being his master and all true subjects had sufiFered so deeply) his condition was no worse, though I have often heard him say that he had lost 40,000/. sterling by the troublesome times, and had all his delights impared not less then his estate.' (Ibid. p. 172) Litchfield^ CO. Hants. — Among the persons named are Richard Kyngesmyll and John his son, 21 Hen. VIL Whitchurch^ co. Hants. — Among the persons named are John Kyngesmyll, sergeant-at-law, and Joan his wife, 13 Hen. VIL Hurst, CO. Berks. — Among the persons named are Adam, son of John de Kingesmille, 20 Edw. III. ; Adam Kyngesmulle of Bercham and Elizabeth his wife and William their son, 23 Edw. III. ; John Kyngesmell and William his son and Joan his wife, daughter of John Dyk, 1 5 Ric. 11. ; William Kyngesmyll, son and heir of John Kyn- gesmyll of Berkham, deceased, 7 Hen. V. ; Richard Kyngesmyll, gentleman, 21 Hen. VII. Barkham, co. Berks. — Among the persons named are William de Nevile, lord of Bercham, John Kyngesmull of Bercham ; Adam his son and Elizabeth his wife, 1 1 Edw. III. ; Richard Bernard of Erburgh- feld, Christina his wife and Joan his daughter, a.d. 1384; Thomas Kyngesmyll, gentleman, son and heir of William Kyngesmyll of Bercham, deceased, and Richard Kyngesmyll, gentleman, his brother, 16 Edw. IV. Settlement in prospect of a marriage between John Kyngesmyll, son and heir of Richard Kyngesmyll of Basingstoke, gentleman, and Joan daughter of John GyfFard of Ichyll co. Hants, 5 Hen. VII. Licence from Richard, bishop of Winchester, to John Kyn- gesmyll and Joan his wife, of Frefolk, to have mass and other divine oflSces celebrated in a suitable place in their house or elsewhere in the diocese, ii December 1501. (' Mr. Kingsmill's MSS.' p. 173)