372 Bradford-on-Avon. {| Old Families § Worthies. 
and highly esteemed in Wiltshire. Several of the former, loyal 
sons of a loyal father, shewed like him their devotion to their King. 
More than one of them rose to positions of influence and dignity. 
Epwarp Yersury, the eldest son, was Secretary to Lord Seymour, 
brother of the Marquis of Hertford, and acted in this capacity, it is 
believed, during the sittings at the treaty at Uxbridge. A few years 
afterwards, together with his brother William, and others, whose 
names,— Wallis,— Lovell,— Long,— Sydenham, —indicate a fa- 
mily connection, he joined in the attempt commonly known 
as the ‘Penruddock rising’ the object of which was the over- 
throw of Cromwell’s government. Its result, as is well known, 
was most disastrous to many concerned in it, though the Yerburys, 
some how or other, contrived to escape. The ring-leaders were 
taken prisoners; Penruddock and Grove were beheaded at Exeter ; 
several others suffered at Salisbury; some were sold for slaves in 
Barbadoes. ’ 
We find another of the sons of Edward Yerbury the elder, Joun, 
by name, in the list of Royalists, on whom, in 1648, the Commis- 
sioners appointed by the Parliament, levied fines for the privilege 
of holding their estates. It was his son Epwsrp, a Fellow of 
Magdalen College, Oxford, (successor in that position to an uncle 
of whom we must speak more fully,) that erected the monument 
in Trowbridge Church to which we have alluded. No doubt to his 
pen we owe the correct and elegant Latin Inscription, which 
records the decease of his grandfather,—his father,—and his uncle 
Edward Yerbury. 
The most distinguished, however, of the sons of Edward Yerbury 
the elder, (at least for his attainments,) was Hunry, who was for 
many years a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford! Like his 
father and brothers, he too was a staunch Royalist, and, in due 
time, reaped the consequences of his principles. When the Parlia- 
mentary Commissioners visited Oxford, he was ejected by them 
from his Fellowship. After his expulsion he travelled to the 
South of Europe, and settling at Padua took the degree of Doctor 
of Physic at the University there established. Whilst there he — 
Wood's “Athen: "Oxon: iii! lexxit, Wastiui2rgesees, 
