

By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq. 23 
Church “by some thousand persons of a depressed party of which 
number I then thought myself happy to be one.” 
It must kave been a sad interesting sight. 
After the Restoration a small brass tablet was placed in the church 
to record his memory, with the following admirable inscription :— 
_“ Hie jacet Hugo Grove De Enford in Comitate Wilts Armiger, In restituendo 
Ecclesiam, In asserendo Regem, In propuguando legem, et libertatem Angli- 
eanam, Captus et de collatus. 16 Maii 1655,” 
Hugh Grove left two sons. The eldest died young, but the second 
John carries on the story of their family with the following petition 
to Charles IT. :— 
Petition of John Grove, Esq., to the King. 
“To the King’s most excellent Majesty 
The humble petition of John Grove Esqre.* 
Sheweth 
That you petitioner is the only sonne of Collonell Grove, who being in person 
with your Maj‘’s Royall ffather in all the late Civill warrs was at last beheaded 
in Exceter in the year 1655 for asserting the Rights of the Crown against the 
Usurper Oliver Cromwell his whole estate being then seized and ruined by the 
then Anarchicall powers. 
And whereas your petitoner nor any of his ffamily since the happy Restaur- 
aton of your Maj‘®’s Royall ffamily to this kingdom ever yet tasted any of the 
Bounty or favour of the Crown (tho alwaies persevering in the strictest 
principles of Loyalty), 
Your petitioner in all humble maner prayes that your Maj** would order the 
payment of what moneys was owing your petitioner upon the Bankers assignment 
from the Exchequer when shutt upp, it being a great part of the small Remaines 
on which your petitioners livelihood and maintenance depend. Or that your 
Maj‘ would please to confer some office upon your petitoners in lieu of the same. 
And your petitoner shall ever pray &c. 
[No date.] JoHN GROVE.” 
What happened further on this I know not; but there was a suit 
which some years afterwards he prosecuted with success. In 1686 
he married Mary, the daughter of William and Mary Chafyn,' the 
heiress of Zeals House, and so that estate passed to the Grove family. 
* Endorsed (by his sister) ‘* My brother Grove’s petition to ye King.” MS. at Zeals House. 
1 Mrs. Chafyn was a daughter of Mr. Thomas Freke, of Hinton, Dorset, one 
of the sons of Sir Thomas Freke, of Shaston, and therefore a relation of Mrs. 
Penruddock’s. 
