58 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 



but denied that he was aiding, assisting, or abbetting therein, and alledged that 

 upon the first opportunity he got away from them to his own house where he 

 continued, while [and] until he was apprehended. 



After this his pleading and the evidence had been heard the Jury brought 

 in their verdict, Not Guilty."* 



And Faithful Scout, May lith, 1655, by letter from Chard : — 



" Major Clark received his tryal there and pleaded so Lilburne-like that he 

 was acquitted by the Jury. His estate was not great." 



The above brings graphically before us the trial, and the young 

 man fighting hard for his life. A very narrow escape he must have 

 had, if he be, and it seems probable he was, the son of Sir Edward 

 Clark mentioned by Captain Unton Croke as about to be Major to 

 Col. Penruddock.^ He is described by Disbrowe as Henry Clarke, 

 of Enford, Wilts, Esquire. This name appears in the register of 

 Fittleton parish, near Enford, about a century later, but I am not 

 able to find it in that neighbourhood in 1655. He may have been a 

 brother of Edward Clarke, Esq., who about this time married the 

 heiress of the Warre and Lottisham families of Chipleigh House, in 

 the parish of Ninehead, near Taunton, Somerset, and who afterwards, 

 in 1667, erected in their village church a grand mural monument 

 to his wife's memory, and wrote upon it an epitaph, commencing: — 

 " This happy soul exchang'd by her decease 

 The lands of Warre into the fields of peace." f 



Capt. Thomas Hunt also of Enford, was tried, condemned, and 

 but for the glorious courage of his sister must have perished,* as we 

 read in the following letter: — 



" Mr. J. Carye and Mr. J. Barker to Major General DiahroweX 



May it Please your Honour, 



To be certified that upon notice given us, that Mr. Hunt, condemned for trea- 

 son was escaped out of prison at Ivelchester, Wednesday night, the 15th instant, 

 •Certain passages of Every Day's Intelligencer, May 11th, 1655, K.P., Sni. Qto., 615, 

 ' See vol. xiii., p. 132, Wilts Arch. Mag. 

 + Collinson's Somerset, toI. iii., p. 268. 

 * The well-known lines of Horace, (Od. Bk. III., 12 ) rise to our lips; — 

 " Una de multis, face nuptiali 

 Digna, perjmum fuit in parentem 

 Splendid^ raendax, et in onrne virgo 

 Nobilis ffivum," 

 " Surge, quae dixit juveni marito. 

 Surge, ne longus tibi somnus, unde 

 Non times, detur." 



We think too of Antigone. 



t3 Th., 453. 



