148 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 
the Kinge himself would be here; and so persuade this examinate to joyne with 
them in it, said all the countrie would joyne with them in it, and that Sir 
William Waller was to head the cittie, and Penruddocke to undertake Wiltshire, 
and other gentlemen the other counties; he said further, that the levelling 
party in the army were discontented, and would oppose the protector. 
He said, he went afterwards to the house of Mr. Penruddocke, where he met 
with one Mr. Thornbury, whose father was sequestered, and there this ex- 
aminate and Mr. Penruddock discoursed of the aforesaid business, when Pen- 
ruddock told him, that Colonel Bennet and some other of this partie were taken 
at London, which had disappointed them, and their day was put off; but said 
the examinate should heare of it, when another day was appointed. He saith 
he doth not knowe, whether Mr. Thornbury heard this discourse. 
He saith, that he had a third meeting at the house of this examinate. Mr. 
Penruddock and his brother came to hym and told hym, that the business was 
much dasht, but that they should nowe more very shortly; and saith, that 
they should have mett at a great horse race to have been at Salisbury about 
the 15th of Febuary, but that being forbidden they were disappointed in that. 
He saith that the examinate went to the house of Mr. Penruddocke on Friday 
before the rising, and then Penruddock told hym, that all was ready, and they 
were to rise upon Monday after, and askt him whether he had furnisht himselfe 
with armes; and this examinate answered him, that he had not, in respect he 
thought the business was over; but Penruddocke pressed him to goe home, and 
get ready; and soe he did, and promised to meet him upon Monday, which he 
did accordingly, and came to them before they came to Blandford, and went 
with them to Sherborn and there left them. 
He saith, that Penruddocke was before this with Grove and several others in 
Wiltshire, and Sir Henry More to have fallen upon the horse at Marborough ; 
but the horse keeping strong guard they were discouraged; and their design 
was to have 12 men gone in in a cart, and they to have seized upon the horses 
in the stables, whilst those without fell on, and saith that Mack of Salisbury 
was to have been chiefe in the business, and it was to have been some weeks 
before. 
He saith, that when they were at Blandford, they spake of several gentlemen, 
who they said would come in, and sent to Mr. Butler of Hanley, and went to 
his house and some others, but found hym not. 
He further saith, that the Marquesse of Hertford was expected with them, 
and that Mr. Penruddocke told him, that the Marquesse was engaged, and that 
the Lady Phillips, as he said, told him soe. And being asked whether Mr. 
Penruddocke did not tell him, he had beene with the U. of Hertford, he did, as 
he remembers, when he first spake with hym. And being further askt about it, 
he saith Penruddocke told hym, that he knew of his own knowledge, that the 
M. of Hertford was engaged, and bid hym take his word for it, and saith, that 
he told hym he had been with hym.”’ 
Two days after (March 31st, 1655,) St. Loe was further examined 
by Thurloe, when he said as follows! :— 
13 Th., 330. 
