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JjUtortet of % Rising in t\t tftet, 



JOHN PENRUDDOCK, HUGH GROVE,ET SOCII, A.D. 1655. 

 By W. "W. Rayenhill, Esq. 



Read before the Society during the annual meeting at Wilton September 14th, 1870. 



|?RjK ne visit of the "Wiltshire Archseological Society to Compton 

 ^^ftChamberlayne in the autumn of 1870, seemed a fitting oppor- 

 tunity for collecting the memorials that remain to us of the Rising 

 in the "West, A.D. 1655, with which John Penruddock, and Hugh 

 Grove and others are so mournfully but honourably connected. 



In carrying out this purpose I have endeavoured not to trench 

 upon the designs of histories already published, but rather to gather 

 a narrative, and collect what remains to us of this one matter, largely 

 drawing from the Thomason Pamphlets presented by King George 

 the Third to the British Museum, from family documents most kindly 

 placed at my disposal, by Charles Penruddock Esquire of Compton 

 Park, and Miss Grove of Zeals House, the lineal descendants of our 

 heroes, and in a much less degree, but still I believe as far as possible, 

 from the documents preserved in Her Majesty 's Record Office. 1 



The chief events of the rising, from its troubled birth to its early dis- 

 solution are related by Lord Clarendon, Echard, Heath, Ludlow, 

 "Whitelocke, Oldmixon and Rapin, the last of whom hazards the 

 statement, founded perhaps solely on " Tre, Pol, Pen/' that 

 Penruddock was a Cornish gentleman, which we shall presently see 

 is quite erroneous. But the most valuable contribution to the 

 literature of that period was made, when the state papers collected 

 by John Thurloe, CromwelFs secretary, were given to the world in 

 A.D. 1742 by Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. 



After that in A.D. 1751 followed the cold but thoughtful account 

 of William Guthrie of Brechin. 



1 That I have compassed all existing materials in so large a field I can 

 scarcely hope. I shall therefore be obliged to any of the readers of this Magazine 

 for any further information. 



