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Aecords of the Aising in the Cest, 
JOHN PENRUDDOCK, HUGH GROVE,ET SOCII, A.D. 1655. 
By W. W. RaAvENHILL, Esq. 
Read before the Society during the annual meeting at Wilton September 14th, 1870. 
Ghe visit of the Wiltshire Archzological Society to Compton 
Chamberlayne in the autumn of 1870, seemed a fitting oppor- 
tunity for collecting the memorials that remain to us of the Rising 
in the West, A.D. 1655, with which John Penruddock, and Hugh 
Grove and others are so mournfully but honourably connected. 
Tn carrying out this purpose I have endeavoured not to trench 
upon the designs of histories already published, but rather to gather 
a narrative, and collect what remains to us of this one matter, largely 
drawing from the Thomason Pamphlets presented by King George 
the Third to the British Museum, from family documents most kindly 
placed at my disposal, by Charles Penruddock Esquire of Compton 
Park, and Miss Grove of Zeals House, the lineal descendants of our 
_ heroes, and in a much less degree, but still I believe as far as possible, 
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from the documents preserved in Her Majesty’s Record Office. 
The chief events of the rising, from its troub!ed birth to its early dis- 
solution are related by Lord Clarendon, Echard, Heath, Ludlow, 
_ Whitelocke, Oldmixon and Rapin, the last of whom hazards the 
statement, founded perhaps solely on “Tre, Pol, Pen,” that 
Penruddock was a Cornish gentleman, which we shall presently see 
is quite erroneous. But the most valuable contribution to the 
literature of that period was made, when the state papers collected 
by John Thurloe, Cromwell’s secretary, were given to the world in 
A.D. 1742 by Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. 
After that in A.D. 1751 followed the cold but thoughtfal account 
of William Guthrie of Brechin. 
1 That I have compassed all existing materials in so large a field I can 
searcely hope. ‘I shall therefore be obliged to any of the readers of this Magazine 
for any further information. 
