6£ Records of the Rising in the West, A.I). 1655. 



Hall, both the Upper Bench and the Common Pleas, the Barons of the Exchequer ; 

 and the Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal, also upon the Ordinance of the 

 Lord Protector, without any of the Masters of the Chancery upon the Bench 

 with them, according to the Tenor of the said ordinance." 



It has already been observed that Colonel and Mrs. Penruddock 

 may not have met after their parting as he returned in custody from 

 London to Exeter ; there would be the cares of their family and the 

 personal efforts for her husband's pardon to stand in the way. But 

 the following petition may be thought to suggest her presence on 

 the circuit after his condemnation ; it is right to add that it would 

 be at best, merely conjecture. A companion she would find in 

 Miss Duke,, the sister of Robert Duke her husband's fellow prisoner, 

 who has been already mentioned as being at Exeter. 1 It is signed 

 by both ladies, and probably was delivered to Sergeant Glynn whilst 

 still in that city. 2 



" To the Honble. Mr. Sergeant Glyn one of the Judges for the Commission of 

 Oyer and Terminer and Goale Delivery for the Countyes of Wilts Dorset 

 Somerset aud Devon. 



The Humble Petition of Arundell Penruddocke in Behalfe of her Husband 

 John Penruddock. And of Anne Duke in Behalfe of her Brother Robert Duke, 

 now Prisoners in the Goale at Exon, Condemned for Treason. 



Sheweth, That having Lost the one A Husband the other A Brother by the 

 Late Sentence of Condemnation Passed uppon them, They hope they may yet 

 find them againe by your Honours mediation to His Highnesse my L d . Protectour 

 for theyre Pardon and forgivenesse. 



Neither can there be A wronge to Justice, when soe High a Charity mixt w th 

 mercy shall Ballance your Honours Intercession ffor Havinge Thirteen children 

 Between them,* Certainly such Innocents will Plead for Pitty towards theyr 

 miserable ffathers And theyr first Language will bee mercy mercy w h . for ever 

 heereafter will bee seconded w th . Thanksgivinge. 



If your Hon T . shall therefore bee pleased soe to intercede to his Highnesse 

 the L d . Protectour whereby both Husband and Brother may find mercy your 

 Petitioners and those many Poore orphans shall for ever Pray, &c. 



Arundell Penruddock. 

 Anne Duke." 



1 Page 50, sup. 



3 This Petition is endorsed: "My Cosen Penruddock's and Mrs. Duke's 

 Petition to Serjeant Glyn who was the Judge that gave the sentence at Exon." 



* Penruddock had seven children. Miss Anne Duke, Robert's sister, must (possibly on account of 

 his wife's ill health) have had the charge of his family. We shall hereafter find that his widow's 

 name also was Anne : but the language of the above petition, and the Attorney-General's letter 

 clearly shew that the lady here mentioned was his sister and not his wife. 



