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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 Pen ruddock, 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 clos® 

 prisoner to the tower," 



was a cousin of Colonel Penruddock's, possibly a soil 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 Eisirig 

 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 31st, 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 : — » 



, u I 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 Tilliers 

 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." 



* 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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