150 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 
march into Cornwal, where he hoped to have found a very considerable party 
to have joyned with him.” 
Besides these informations he would have that against Edmond 
Mack,an apothecary of Salisbury, who Mr. St. Loe mentions as being 
at Penruddock’s the Friday before the rising and to have been the chief 
of the intended Marlborough raid.! Mack’s heart failing him some 
few hours after he left Salisbury, he returned thither and surrendered 
himself to Lieut. Heely or Huly, and Mr. William Eyre,? and was 
by them sent up to London. Col. Dove thought him a spy ® from 
_the enemy, and whether at his instance or on St. Loe’s information, 
the Government pressed the prosecution against him, though desired 
to forego it. The Collier, mentioned in the Secretary’s notes, was 
also in London, assisting the Government. He is spoken of as “a 
considerable witness.”* Possibly he was one of the sons of the 
Rector of Steeple Langford, who with Wake held a house at Molton 
against Crook and his soldiers for four hours, and then only sur- 
rendered on articles. But this is mere surmise, as both the Colliers 
were afterwards put upon their trial. 
About the 20th of March, Colonels John Penruddock and Francis 
Jones were brought to London without their companions, Grove or 
Hunt.® 
Crook wrote to Thurloe on that day from Exeter :— 
“Upon My Lord Protector’s Letter I immediately sent away Mr. John Pen- 
ruddocke and Francis Jones; within some few howers after I had received an 
expresse from you, cleering any doubt I make of the person, because there were 
two of the name in goale; but the considerablenesse of the person guide me 
aright.” * 
1Pp. 146, 148, sup. 23 Th., 380. 3 Tbid, 243. 4Tbid, 365. 
5 Tbid, 368. 6 Vide Mr. Secretary’s notes above. 
*This alludes to Edward Penruddock, whose name will be found on Disbrowe’s list of prisoners. 
He was probably a son of John Penruddock’s uncle, Henry Penruddock, who was a King’s 
agent in this country in 1649. (see note, p. 122,sup.) I find the following items relating to him in 
ene of the family account books, in John Penruddock’s own handwriting :— 
Noy, 4th, 1654. Paid for my cousin, Edward Penruddock, to Mr. Oliver, 
for which my father and myself were bound a hundred £8. da 
pound for principal and 86 pound for interest 180 00 00 
Lent to him by my father at Sarum 040 00 00 
Lent to him myself whilst he was in the Tower 010 00 00 
Paid for him to Mr. Woodward of Bristol 010 00 00 
Paid for him to my aunt Mead, for interest 006 00 00 
The disbursements 
since my father’s . 
death Paid to Mr. Oliver for a debt of my cousin Penruddock’s, 
for which mysélf and my father stood engaged 0180 00 00 
A cousin who lived not on air! Crook’s letter will be found at 3 Th., 281, 
