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of the family. Another branch some time prior to A.D. 1650, 

 settled at Chisenbuiy Priors in the parish of Enford, Wilts. There 

 they possessed land both freehold and leasehold, the latter held under 

 the famous Hospital of Saint Katherine, which many years since 

 left the environs of the Tower of London, for the Regent's Park. 

 Well-to-do country gentlemen they obtained leases where the free- 

 hold still lay in the mortua manu of the hospital. From them sprung 

 Hugh Grove, a man in his prime in 1655. Married to his cousin 

 Jane Grove of Shaftesbury, he was living a quiet country life, per- 

 chance initiating his son in agriculture or in the science of coursing 

 hares on the neighbouring downs, when his mother did not claim 

 him for his books. What part Hugh Grove took in the civil wars, 

 where, before that, he had been schooled, and other facts of his life up 

 to that time, are lost ; enough that he lives to us in the history of the 

 Rising, as a soldier frank and pleasant, fond of his King and Country. 



His more distinguished companion John Penruddock, was born in 

 1619, probably at his father's house at Compton Chamberlayne. 



The Penruddocks first appear in history in the reign of Edward 

 the second, as residents at Penruddock, a small township of the Manor 

 of Greystoke, in Cumberland. We find one then serving on a Jury 

 in that neighbourhood. In course of time they spread southwards 

 to Wiltshire and other counties. When the head of the house who 

 remained behind, received from Queen Elizabeth the Manor of 

 Arkelby, in Cumberland, on the attainder of Roger de Martindale 

 for joining the unhappy Mary Queen of Scotts, he was merely 

 following the steps of his more fortunate relatives, who in the South 

 by Royal favour, or prosperous marriages, or their own industry had 

 acquired large estates. One of them Sir George Penruddock highly 

 distinguished himself at the Battle of St. Quentin, in 1557, as stan- 

 dard bearer, to William Earl of Pembroke, the Commander in Chief 

 of the British army. 



The Compton estate was purchased by Edward Penruddock, Esq., 

 of New Sarum, afterwards Sir Edward Penruddock, at the close 

 of the sixteenth century. 1 In 1612, on his death, it descended 



1 Hoare's Mod. Wilts, Hund. Dunw. 

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