122 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 
to his son, John Penruddock, the Father of our hero. In the 
fields and woods thereabouts, the latter threw out thew and sinew 
not without cultivation of mind, till he was sent to Blandford 
school.! To the same place some years later, went John Aubrey the 
Wiltshire historian. At the close of his school career, Penruddock 
passed on to Queen’s College, Oxford ;* after that to Gray’s Inn, 
to study law. This society admitted him May 14th, 1636.3 
Anthony Wood‘ says “that at school and college he delighted 
in books, when a man in arms.” In 1639, he married Arundel 
daughter of Mr. John Freke, of Ewerne’s Courtenay and Melcombe 
in the county of Dorset, a lady of great mental and personal 
accomplishments. Their union was blessed in their children, and in 
their mutual love most strong in trouble and in death. In 1648, on his 
father’s demise, Penruddock succeeded to the family estates. At 
Christmas in that year and till the sixth of January following, he 
was with John Aubrey, the guest of Lord Francis Seymour at Marl- 
borough ; there was hunting, coursing, plenty of good cheer and for 
Aubrey the safe study, Archeology.® 
During the wars the Penruddocks lost many relations and friends. 
The death of Henry Penruddock, a younger brother of John, has 
been already narrated in this Magazine.* Other troubles to other 
members of the family will be found in Ludlow’s memoirs.’? They 
suffered also severe pecuniary losses. In addition to the expenditure 
for men and horses and arms, the Commissioners for Sequestration 
—those locusts who came up to consume what the hail had left— 
1 Payne Fisher. 
2John Milton of Christ’s Coll., Camb., M.A., ad eand. 1635; Edm. Ludlow, 
B.A., Trin. Coll. Ox., 1636. 
’ Grays Inn Books. 
4 Fasti, 46. 
5 Canon Jackson’s Aubrey. 
6 Wilts Arch. Mag., December, 1855, p. 397. There is another Henry 
Penruddock to be found in the history of those days, who was a six clerk in 
Chancery. He was an agent for Charles IJ. in England, and is mentioned by 
Whitelocke (Memorials) as being confined in the Tower (1649). He was an 
uncle of John Penruddock’s. See also 3 Thurloe 459, where he is called by 
Manning, ‘‘ the king’s prime agent.” 
7 Ludlow, vol., i. 
