By F. A. Carrington, Esq. 153 



1, 1643, dated Scob. Ord. March 31, set out in Rush. Coll. vol. 5, 

 p. 309. In 1648, July 27, the composition of Serjeant Glanville is 

 mitigated, (vol. 7, p. 1205 ;) and there is a vote of the House of 

 Commons Oct. 30, 1648, that Lawyers, Clergymen, and Scholars 

 should compound at a full third, and that Feb. 2nd then next, 

 should be the last day for compounding. The Penruddock and 

 Grove revolt was at midnight on Sunday, March 11, 1654-5. 



The Letters next following (No. 1 to 6), on the subject of the 

 "new taxation" mentioned by Hume, viz. : that which took place 

 after the Penruddock rising, on March 11, 1654-5, are contained 

 in the collection of State Papers of John Thurloe, who was Se- 

 cretary of State to Oliver Cromwell, and to Richard his son. 

 This collection was discovered in the reign of King William 

 III. in a false ceiling in the garrets belonging to Secretary 

 Thurloe's chambers, No. 13, in the old Square, Lincoln's Inn, 

 (near Lincoln's Inn Chapel,) by a clergyman, who had bor- 

 rowed these chambers during the long vacation of his friend, Mr. 

 Thomlinson, the owner of them. This clergyman soon after disposed 

 of these papers to John Lord Somers, then Lord Chancellor, who 

 caused them to bo bound in 67 volumes in folio. They were pub- 

 lished in 1742, Thomas Birch, M.A., F.R.S., being their Editor. 



No. I. The Commmioners for the County of Sarum to the Protector.^ 



" May it please your Highness. 



" In obedience to your commands, we this day waited upon the right honour- 

 able General Disbrowe, who having communicated to us your orders and instruc- 

 tion for the securing of the peace of the Commonwealth, we humbly resenting* 

 them as most just and reasonable, and much conducing to the end specilicd, 

 did and do most cordially engage ourselves in the work, and both in this and 

 all tilings else shall be ready to obey your Highness's command, who arc, 

 " Your Highness's most humble and faithful servants, 

 "JOH. DOVE. J A. HELY. 



HUM. EYRE. WM. LUDLOWE. 



NIC. GREENE. J. REDE. 



ED. SCOTTON. RICH. HILL. 



ISAAC BURGKS. WILL. BLISSETT. 



THO. EYRE. 

 " New Sarum, Dec. 7, 1055." 



' Thurloe's State Papers, vol. 4, p. 295 

 • I'robably "respecting" in iiicunt. 



