316 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
three members of the Wilts Committee, written from Salisbury in’ 
October, 1647, and stating that in consequence of orders from above 
they had placed a renewed sequestration on his estate. Anyhow, 
the large demand on him is recorded of £1000, against which, of 
course, he vehemently expostulated; and enlisting the powerful aid 
of his neighbour, John Ashe, the sequestrator, got it reduced to 
£66 10s.—such, at least, is the figure appearing in Dring’s catalogue 
of fines. 
There was another knight of this name, described as Sir John 
Penruddocke, of St. Giles in the fields, Middlesex, a Romanist, 
whose petition prays for permission to contract for two third parts 
of his estate, such two third parts lying under sequestration for 
recusancy only, but not for delinquency. Perhaps he was father to 
the compounder who comes next. 
Joun Pznruppocks, of Ealing and of Salisbury, Esq., a recusant. 
Simply as a Romanist, this gentleman had suffered under the popular 
odium when hostilities could hardly be said to have commenced. 
His house at Ealing, near London, was plundered of its contents, 
as also another dwelling-house in Hampshire; and the Act pro- 
hibiting recusants from coming within twenty miles of London 
cutting him off from all means of redress, he set about repairing a 
modest property which he held in Salisbury, and there remained in 
comparative quietude till a claim was made upon him for £6 rent 
by a person named Lawrance, who declared that he held a lease of 
the premises from the London Committee of Sequestrators. Now, 
as the Act against recusants granted them undisturbed possession of 
their own mansions, he prays to have the benefit of that provision 
in respect of his small house and garden at Salisbury. The request 
was at once granted, and Lawrence was ordered to refund. [The estate 
out of which he had been driven near London was worth £150 per 
annum.] The above affair dates in October, 1654, a period when 
Cromwell was in supreme power, and it is probably another instance 
of the just dealing which he procured for the Catholics. 
RoBert Puriiips, of New Sarum, gent. He adhered to the forces 
raised against the Parliament. He petitioned in September, 1650, 
