By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq. 25 
Robert Swayne’s name occurs here for the first time, there is no 
record as to who he was, though we may strongly suspect he belonged 
to the old Wiltshire family of that name. John Jones will be found 
in Desborough’s list, described as of Newton Tony. 
Edward Penruddock, of whom there is the following short entry 
in Whitelock (Dec. 18th, 1649, 3 vol., p. 129, Oxon, ed. 1853) :— 
“‘Mr. Penruddock, an agent for Prince Charles, was taken and committed close 
prisoner to the tower,” 
was a cousin of Colonel Penruddock’s, possibly a son of Sir George 
Penruddock, of Bower Chalke. He had obtained by purchase 
the office of six clerk in Chancery, of which he was dispossessed by 
the Parliament, and Nicholas Love, one of the judges of Charles I. 
appointed in his place. He appears to have been much trusted by 
Charles II., was employed in some important matters by the latter, 
and had doubtless a great share in the preliminaries of the Rising 
in the West. 
From the following letters it may be presumed that he was 
liberated on bail, shortly after the executions at Exeter, and went 
at once to the continent, for had the Government been in possession 
of the information contained in them, he would have been detained 
in custody. 
The first is a letter from Cologne, May 3lst, 1655, in which 
Manning (who, it will be remembered, was in Thurloe’s pay) gives a 
list of those then there, including Charles II., the Duke of Gloucester, 
Hyde, &c., but he does not mention Penruddock. 
Next day he writes again :— 
*T need not tell you, by whom Prince Rupert was turned from ; yet perhaps 
you have not known, that Hyde then offered Charles Stuart 50000 men should 
be in arms in England before a year went about, if he would quit the Queen’s 
Court, and the prince’s party. Henry Seymour and Colonel Edmund Villiers 
went about that time in Paris, and of this juncto in those offers the last en- 
gaged his prime agent in England Mr. Henry Penruddock * the late six clerk. - 
By the last letters it doth seem as if Prince Rupert had an intention to see 
Cologne before Modena; and if he can break Hyde’s neck here, it may alter 
his design, and make him stay with the King which he hath most mind of.” 
dong SE I a ae Se 
* Manning makes a mistake in calling him “‘ Henry.” There was only one of the Penruddock 
family a six clerk in Chancery. 
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