‘Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 253 
assizes held July 13th, 1670. (22 Car. II.) The order quotes a 
presentment by the Grand Jury of the County on the I4th of July 
in the preceeding year. 
‘‘ That Popham’s Bushes, or Hunt’s Bushes on Popham’s Beacon, were a har- 
bour for Robbers, and that the said Bushes were near to the great highway 
leading out of the West towards London. That Mr. Hunt the proprietor should 
be advised, by the Constable of Micheldever, to cut them; and in default of his 
doing so, he was ordered to attend the next assizes, and answer why he had not.” 
But to return, somehow or other, by the 18th of April, 1655, all 
the Commissioners arrived at Exeter, except Mr. Justice Wyndham ; 
who perhaps thought that his labours at Salisbury entitled him to 
repose. He apparently never was there at all, and did not rejoin 
the circuit till Chard. , 
The sedulous Mr. Nutley had preceded the Judges, and gives the 
following account of his doings to Mr. Secretary Thurloe :—* 
** Maie it please you, Sir, 
I came from Sarum to Exceter this morning, the Judges intending to 
bee here tomorrow. Since my comeing hither, I have spoken with the high 
sheriffe of this county, whome I finde very active in this service. Hee told 
mee, that on fryday night last, (April 13'*) after Penruddock came into the 
prison, the prisoners had agreed together to make an escape, and to breake 
through the guards that night; but hee by the tymely intelligence given to 
him, doubled the guards, and prevented that designe. I have spoken with sev- 
erell persons since I came to towne, who are fit to be used as witnesses, and doe 
believe the evidence will be cleare against them here. I suppose Mr. Serjeant 
‘Glynne will give the charge here,and manadge the bussinesse in the Court, which 
may very much advantage the service. It might have been manadged better at 
Salisbury. Mr. Attorney-General intends to lodge here at one Mr. Snowe’s 
house, an Alderman of this city. I lodge at one Mr. Westlake’s house, the 
towne Clerke of Exceter, who tooke diverse Examinations of the prisoners and 
‘witnesses, and is very useful in theservice. If Harrison or Turner come hither, 
I shall be carefull to observe their action, and to give your honour speedy notice 
of it. The high Sheriffe also tells mee, that one Bennet a prisoner told him, 
that Penruddocke and the rest of the prisoners had agreed together to stand 
- 1 Attorney-General’s Letter, 3 Th., 398. In a former one he mentioned 
_ Mr. Justice Wyndham as purposing to rejoin them at Exeter; in this he says 
_ nothing of his presence there, though he speaks of that of the other Judges, 
“Mr, Justice Wyndham is expected to meet us at Chard.” 
Ibid, 381. 
*Scarcely the M.P. for Exeter in the Long Parliament; Mr. Nutley would mention it. 
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