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been plundered and sold by sequestrators, leaving him no more in 
value than £40. His fine, in 1646, nominally of £1000, was made 
out by his endowing two rectories and paying £150 in ready money. 
Str Joun Penruppocke, of Compton Chamberlain, Knight, and 
his son, Jonn Penruppocke, Esq., of the same. The knight’s 
adherence to the royal cause was throughout the war of the most 
pronounced character, sitting at the council board in Oxford, and 
acting as the King’s sheriff in Wiltshire; though neither he nor 
_ his son appear to have actually borne arms. When Oxford was 
taken, Sir John was obliged to remain in that city through ill-health, 
and he died in the summer of 1648. In the meanwhile his son had 
already made his early surrender to the Parliament, viz., in the 
summer of 1644, while the issue was still undecided, and in Novem- 
ber, 1645, took the Solemn League and Covenant in the presence 
of John Conant, minister of Aldersgate Church, an action to which 
the father would never have stooped, and for which it may well be 
believed the son never forgave himself. Anxiety to wipe away the 
_ stain of this transaction may have had something to do with the 
desperation with which he afterwards engaged in the attempt to 
unseat Cromwell in 1654. In his own behalf the son at once com- 
pounded for his reversionary interest in the Wilts and Essex family 
estates, represented by £300 a year, which his father allowed him 
on his marriage with Arundel Freake, of which more presently. 
Sir John’s Wiltshire estates comprised the manor of Compton 
Chamberlain—Baynton, with lands and tenements in Compton 
Chamberlain—Nicholas, West Grimstead, Barford St. Martin, Pit- 
ton, and Wilton, and the impropriate rectories of Britford and 
Compton Chamberlain. His other estates were in Essex (limited 
after his own decease to his wife Johan, for her life), all to pass 
eventually in tail to his son John. For these, independently of the 
interests for which that son had already compounded, the father had 
to pay £490, on 2nd August, 1649; at least the receipt is so dated, 
though he had died in the previous year. 
_ Some restless action on the part of John the son is discoverable 
by a letter from Humphrey Ditton, Richard Hill, and Robert Good, 
