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By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq. 123 
visited Compton. I find amongst the Domestic State papers of 
that period, the following certificate which tells its own tale :— 
«Upon search made into the Books and papers relating to Sequestrations and 
Compositions in my custody as Registrar to the Commissioners for compounding 
and managing Estates under sequestration I find that John Penruddock of 
Compton in the County of Wilts Esquire compounded for his delinquency and 
the estate mentioned in the report hereunto annexed and by me attested for 
which he had a fine of one thousand pounds set, which said fine was all paid 
into the Treasury at Goldsmith’s Hall by the 6th of June, 1649. 
Examined May 1657.” * 
I have not been able to discover the report alluded to in the above 
certificate. The “me” is Mr. F. Bailey, who was the registrar of 
the certificates. 
In a family account book there are the following entries in 
Colonel Penruddock’s own handwriting :— 
& s. d. 
Paid for my Composition .1300 00 00 
My own debts contracted during 
Six years sequestratation 1500 00 00 
There were some dealings too between the Commissioners and 
Hugh Grove, for Sir R. Hoare! mentions a grant made by them to 
John Dove, Esquire, of New Sarum, the Protector’s High Sheriff 
for Wilts, bearing date September 28th, 1650, of the reversion in 
fee of the Chisenbury priory estate, and in that it is said to belong 
to Hugh Grove the elder, the father of “our Hugh,” under a 
lease dated September 15th, 1640, granted to him for the lives of 
his two sons Hugh and Robert, and his grandson Hugh, the son of 
Hugh the younger. The property at this day still belongs to the 
Grove family. 
It is clear from the above statements, that Penruddock if not 
Grove, fought for the crown. ; 
I pass over here as beyond my present purpose, all events that 
led to the death of the King, which happened a few weeks after the 
pleasant hospitalities of Lord Francis Seymour—I pass over the 
steps by which General Cromwell became Lord Protector of this 
realm—as also the session of Parliament which assembled on “ His 
* State Papers, Domestic Series. Interregnum. Commissioners for compounding with Delin- 
quents, No. 323, 
1 Modern Wilts, Hund. Elstub and Eyerley, 17. 
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