22 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 
That it is the desire of the Glassmakers themselves that it may bee Againe 
Letten to ffarme. 
May it therefore Please your most excellent Mat to grant to your Petitioner 
or such as shee shall Appoynt and noe other Liberty to make glesses for 21 
years. And shee is willinge to Pay your Ma“ for the same the summe of £500 
yearely w™ is more than ever was pay? for it. 
And your Pett. as in Duty Bound shall ever Pray for your Ma‘®’s Long and 
happy Reign. 
ARUNDELL PENRUDDOCK.” 
Endorsed 
“Pet of M™. Arundell 
Penruddock’s peton 
for ye Glasse office.” 
The body of the petition is perhaps in the handwriting of John 
Martin ; the signature is Mrs. Penruddock’s. 
As we look back on those days and think of Charles IT., at times 
half smothered with petitions, some of which were honoured with 
gold, some with smiles and promises, we can only hope she received 
substantial comfort. 
But to return to the scene of the execution and the fate of Hugh 
Grove. 
There is the following record which I am told is in the possession 
of Dr. Shapter, of Exeter (January, 1871). It is an extract from 
a diary of a burgess of Exeter (supposed to be Richard Croping, 
who in 1649 refused to serve the office of Mayor), lately (1857) 
found in the town wall at Exeter :—! 
‘¢ Perambulation of the City on the Mayors day.* 
By this time we had come to the square tower on the Castle wall, and as we 
walked round it, we did talk over the late terrible conspiracy against his High- 
nesse and the Commonwealth and of the beheading of Col Jobn Penruddock 
and Mr. Grove in the Castle Gaol a death which they petitioned H H to die 
instead of being hanged (May 1655) as were the other conspirators then taken 
at Ringswell: there were on that day 14 hanged together, 7 of whom were for 
treason and 7 for felony.” 
Izaacke ® says that Hugh Grove was followed to St. Sidwell’s 

1 Favored with a copy of this by Mr. Penruddock. 
* No date given. 
2 History of Exeter, p. 10, 
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