146 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 
Westfield. 
Gabriel Pile. . 
Clancee of Hampshire. 
That one Dorrington, servant to Phillips, sayd, that Mr. Wyndham,t wee 
should have brought in a good company of horse, was taken prisoner. Grove 
and Col Bowles sayd, that Marquesse Hartford was to come to them with horse 
and foote. 
Westfield sayth, that Willis the innkeeper told him, that the M. of Hertford 
would come into Salisbury with horse and foote and proclayme Charles the 2nd. 
He saith that Mr. Mompesson told him, that the M. of Hertford would assist 
them, and that they had his hand for it. Col. Bowles sayd the same. 
That Mr. St. Loe sayd, there was but a small number; that he had some 
horse and armes for them not farre off; that they must set back to backe and 
fight it out. That Saint Loe had, as he remembers, noe pistolls before hym, 
but he had pistolls in a portmantle, which his men carryed. 
Collyer saith, that one Lieutenant-Col. Reeves was with Penruddock. 
Mr. Grove; to be sent for. 
Mr. Jones. 
Mr. Penruddock. 
Captain Hunt. 
Saith that Mr. Grove told hym that many had engaged themselves in this 
designe, which had failed them,+ but that they should suffer as well as they. 
Mr. Saint Lowe: he sayth, he lives in Dorsetshire; and sayth, that as he 
was goinge from his house to Kington, within 7 miles of Salisburye, to hire 
some lands of his uncle Saint Loe, whoe dwells there, and as he was goeinge, he 
mett with two or three scouts, one whereof had the sheriff’s liverie, and fore’t 
him to goe along with them as a prisoner, to a body of horse, commanded by 
Sir Joseph Wagstaffe; where he mett with Mr. Penruddocke, Mr. Grove, and 
severall other of his friends, who told them, they were for the kinge; but sayth, 
he desired them to dismisse hym; but they refuseing, he sent home his man 
to acquaint his wife, who returned to hym againe, and saith,§ soe he marcht 
with them to Blandford, where he confesseth he sayd unto the people, that he 
was Penruddocke’s Captaine, but listed none. And beinge askt, whether he 
knew not of this bussines before, he saith he had a common report of it, but 
had noe discourse with any about it. He saith, he was at Penruddocke’s upon 
the Friday before the rising, where were Max [or Mack] the apothecary and 
doctor Whitwell; and beinge askt what discourse they had, he sayth, he heard 
them talke of what sport they should have on Monday, and spake of what they 
would doe with the judges ; and he asking what they meant by this, Pen- 
ruddock told him, he should see on Monday, if the Examinate would march 
into the countrie. 
He sayth, he went with them as farre as Sherburne, and there left them. 
Cheefe Actors 
® Possibly related to the King’s agent for the west, he escaped. 
+Mr. Francis Wyndham of Somersetshire had been arrested sometime after March 3rd, 1655, on 
the information of Jack Straddling. 3Th., 181. His petition for release is given at 3 Th., 397. 
+ Some of the Hampshire men, and perhaps Lord Hertford, whose share in the rising I shall allude 
to hereafter. 
?Thic entence is unfinished, 
