l(i Records of the Rising hi the West, A.D. 1655. 



oi moans, or at the instance ot the Commissioners of Sequestration. 1 

 She appears to have lived for a time at Mr. Martin's at Tisbury, and 

 would thus be able to watch over her son's interest. Mr. Martin 

 would himself do what he was well able to do — educate the boys. 



But there must have been a struggle for existence, as piece after 

 piece of the family estate was hunted out and sequestrated. Fourteen 

 major-generals ("Turkish Bashaws/' as Ludlow calls them) were ap- 

 pointed, for preserving order and attending to sequestration. Of 

 these Disbrowe looked after Wiltshire no doubt thoroughly. 



Worsley, another of them, in whose district was Stafford., writes 

 thence to Thurloe on the 8th of December, 1655 : — 2 



" We have found an estate of Penruddock which was executed and have 

 ordered it to be sequestrated." 



Shortly afterwards he writes again to the Protector : — 



" May it please your Highness, &c. 



We have in Staffordshire taxed as many as amounts to about £1300 or £1400 

 per an., and have discovered about £100 per ann. in lands of Penruddock' s 

 who was in armes at Salisbury, and afterwards Executed for his rebellion." 



There are also the following letters of Mrs. Penruddock, relating 

 to an application for the restoration of her husband's personal estate, 

 which had been forfeited : — 



Letter of Mrs, Penruddock to her Uncle, John Trenchard, Esq., 1655. 

 ' ' Dear Unele, 



As my perplext soul was not without some presage of calamity, which 

 is since fallen upon me, when you're pleased to deny me your assistance, in 

 petitioning for the life of my Dear husband, so it is not destitute of all comfortable 

 expectation from you, that you vouchsafed, which your refusal of my desires in 

 the one to joine your courteous proffer of your helping the other (viz 1 ) My 

 petitioning for that part of my husband's estate (together with his moveables) 

 which is liable to a forfeiture. I beseech you good uncle to call to mind that 



1 Perhaps it was let. Domestic State Papers, Commonwealth, No. 326, 

 Commissions Compounding General Disbrowe's letters, p. 802. To Wilts, 

 "You are to proceed to let and dispose of Sequestered Estates in your juris- 

 diction for 1 year next ensuing and get in arrears of rent. May 15th, 1655." 



There is an order to examine into Jane Penruddock's Estate on the petition 

 of William Greenhill, the younger, of London, addressed to the Commissioners 

 of Sequestration for Wilts, July 13th, 1655. See Order Book for Compounding 

 Commissioners, 1655. No. 295 Dom. State Papers. 



2 4 Thurloe State Papers, 300 and 340. 



