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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 lOrf . — 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. 



J ohn Penruddocke, 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 £5 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 Phillips, of New Sarum, gent. He adhered to the forces 

 raised against the Parliament. He petitioned in September, 1650, 



