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of the family. Another branch some time prior to A.D. 1650, 
settled at Chisenbury Priors in the parish of Enford, Wilts. There 
they possessed land both freehold and leasehold, the latter held under 
the famous Hospital of Saint Katherine, which many years since 
left the environs of the Tower of London, for the Regent’s Park. 
Well-to-do country gentlemen they obtained leases where the free- 
hold still lay in the mortu4 manu of the hospital. From them sprung 
Hugh Grove, a man in his prime in 1655. Married to his cousin 
Jane Grove of Shaftesbury, he was living a quiet country life, per- 
chance initiating his son in agriculture or in the science of coursing 
hares on the neighbouring downs, when his mother did not claim 
him for his books. What part Hugh Grove took in the civil wars, 
where, before that, he had been schooled, and other facts of his life up 
to that time, are lost; enough that he lives to us in the history of the 
_ Rising, as a soldier frank and pleasant, fond of his King and Country. 
His more distinguished companion John Penruddock, was born in 
1619, probably at his father’s house at Compton Chamberlayne. 
The Penruddocks first appear in history in the reign of Edward 
the second, as residents at Penruddock, a small township of the Manor 
of Greystoke, in Cumberland. We find one then serving on a Jury 
in that neighbourhood. In course of time they spread southwards 
to Wiltshire and other counties. When the head of the house who 
remained behind, received from Queen Elizabeth the Manor of 
Arkelby, in Cumberland, on the attainder of Roger de Martindale 
for joining the unhappy Mary Queen of Scotts, he was merely 
following the stéps of his more fortunate relatives, who in the South 
by Royal favour, or prosperous marriages, or their own industry had 
aequired large estates. One of them Sir George Penruddock highly 
distinguished himself at the Battle of St. Quentin, in 1557, as stan- 
dard bearer, to William Earl of Pembroke, the Commander in Chief 
of the British army. 
The Compton estate was purchased by Edward Penruddock, Esq., 
of New Sarum, afterwards Sir Edward Penruddock, at the close 
of the sixteenth century. In 1612, on his death, it descended 
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