Excerpt from Letters From Roundhead Officers: Written From Scotland and Chiefly Addressed to Captain Adam Baynes, July, 1650-June, 1655Durham. In 1659 he was returned M. P. For Appleby, in' West moreland.Adam Baynes appears to have traficked largely in debentures, and in what were termed by his party 'delinquents' Lands.' He purchased Wimbledon of Lambert, and became possessed of the Queen's property at Holdenby, as well as of some of the Royal Forests in Lancashire. Of these, on the Restoration, he was deprived, without any compensation, and he retired to his estate at Knowstropp, where he died in the month of December 1670, at the age of 49. He married Martha, daughter of Richard Dawson, Esq. Of Heworth, near York, by whom he had sixteen children. His widow survived him many years, dying at the age of 88, on the of July 1713.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.