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and Joseph ; unfortunately the Exeter gaol books of that period 

 are lost. But by 1660 the brothers may have returned to share in 

 their parents "restoration/' for Marcellus Rivers and one other 

 prisoner, if not more, connected with the Rising of 1655, who had 

 returned from the West Indies, were in London the year before. 

 What they must have suffered if they went there, we shall know 

 more of, when we study Rivers's petition. Enough that a member 

 of Parliament of the period, speaking in no mere rhetorical language 

 described existence at Jamaica and Barbadoes as worse than death ! 1 



In Steeple Langford church is a mural monument to the four 

 Colh r ers, Rectors of that parish; of which a drawing with the in- 

 scription will be found in Sir R. Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, Hund. 

 Branch and Dole, p. 13. It was erected, so it tells us, by Margaret, 

 widow of the last of them, July 1st, 1734. About the same 

 time died William, brother of the last Rector, and godson of Mr. 

 Thomas Penruddock, of Compton, the son and successor of Colonel 

 John Penruddock. The fellowship of the father and uncle was to 

 have been further revived, by his presenting his godson to the 

 living of Compton. Death frustrated Mr. Penruddock's intentions. 2 

 We must not pass from Langford Church without noticing a monu- 

 ment of the Mompesson family, which was discovered by Sir R. 

 Hoare, and of which an engraving will be found in his history of 

 Modem Wilts. But I can find no traces of that family in Lang- 

 ford so late as 1655, and therefore doubt "the Mr. Mompesson " of 

 the Rising being then resident there. Of Henry and Joseph 

 Collyer after this period nothing appears to be known Let us hope 

 they returned to usefulness and happiness, for it is in the marring of 

 such young lives, that the civil war appears in one of its most cruel 

 and melancholy aspects. 



Of the fourth prisoner, Christopher Haviland, " a village Rupert'''' 

 of Langton, Dorset, nothing remains to be said ; and the fifth is 

 unknown. 



I have for convenience sake followed to the close the fate of those 



1 Burton's Diary, vol. iv., 408. 3 Clarendon St. Pap., 447 and 448. 

 2 Benson's Memoir. 



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