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WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE, 
‘¢ WULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.”’—Ovid. 
Mecords of the Rising in the West, 
JOHN PENRUDDOCK, HUGH GROVE, ET SOCII. 
(Concluded from Vol. xiv., Page 67.) ’ 
(IRS the trooper, who bere the death warrant, journied westward, 

f the news that the time for reprieve was past, spread without 
Whitehall Palace. 
We can well imagine that Mrs. Penruddock, who heard it the 
same day, immediately made one more effort to save her husband, 
and that it was then probably that she was “ turned out of doors, 
because she came to beg mercy.” 
Returning 1o her lodgings after a long and weary day of fruitless 
toil, she wrote words of exquisite solace to her unfortunate husband: 
“My dear heart, 
My sad parting was.so far from making me to forget you, that I have 
searce thought upon myself since, bat wholly upon you. Those dear embraces 
which I yet feel, and shall never lose (being the faithful testimonies of an in- 
dulgent husband) have charmed my soul to such a reverence of your remem- 
brances, that were 1t possible, I would with my own blood cement your dead 
limbs to life again, and with reverence think it no sin to rob heaven a little 
longer of a martyr. Oh my dear! you must now pardon my passion, tho’ being 
the last (oh fatal word!) that ever you will receive from me; and know that 
until the last minute* that I can imagine you shall live, I will sacrifice the 
prayers of a Christian, and the groans of an affected [afflicted ?] wife ; and when 
you are not, which sure by sympathy I shall know,t} I shall wish my own 
dissolution with you, that so we may go hand in hand to heaven. It is too late 
to tell you what I have, or rather have not, done for you, How turned out of 
doors, because I came to beg mercy! The Lord lay not your blood to their 
charge. I would fain discourse longer with you, but dare not, my passion 
begins to drown my reason, and will rob me of my devoir, which is all I have 
left to serve you. 
* “Minute”? written twice, once erased. 
® The stronger word “‘ know” substituted for “ feel.” 
VOL. XV.—NO. XLIII. B 

