122 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 



to his son, John Penruddock, the Father of our hero. In the 

 fields and woods thereabouts, the latter threw out thew and sinew 

 not without cultivation of mind, till he was sent to Blandford 

 sohool. 1 To the same place some years later, went John Aubrey the 

 Wiltshire historian. At the close of his school career, Penruddock 

 passed on to Queen's College, Oxford ; 2 after that to Gray's Inn, 

 to study law. This society admitted him May 14th, 1636. 3 

 Anthony Wood 4 says "that at school and college he delighted 

 in books, when a man in arms/' In 1639, he married Arundel 

 daughter of Mr. John Freke, of Ewerne's Courtenay and Melcombe 

 in the county of Dorset, a lady of great mental and personal 

 accomplishments. Their union was blessed in their children, and in 

 their mutual love most strong in trouble and in death. In 1648, on his 

 father's demise, Penruddock succeeded to the family estates. At 

 Christmas in that year and till the sixth of J anuary following, he 

 was with J ohn Aubrey, the guest of Lord Francis Seymour at Marl- 

 borough ; there was hunting, coursing, plenty of good cheer and for 

 Aubrey the safe study, Archaeology. 5 



During the wars the Penruddocks lost many relations and friends. 

 The death of Henry Penruddock, a younger brother of John, has 

 been already narrated in this Magazine. 6 Other troubles to other 

 members of the family will be found in Ludlow's memoirs. 7 They 

 suffered also severe pecuniary losses. In addition to the expenditure 

 for men and horses and arms, the Commissioners for Sequestration 

 —those locusts who came up to consume what the hail had left — 



1 Payne Fisher. 



2 John Milton of Christ's Coll., Camb., M.A., ad eund. 1635; Edm. Ludlow, 

 B.A., Trin. Coll. Ox., 1636. 



3 Grays Inn Books. 

 4 Fasti, 46. 

 6 Canon Jackson's Aubrey. 

 6 Wilts Arch. Mag., December, 1855, p. 397. There is another Henry 

 Penruddock to be found in the history of those days, who was a six clerk in 

 Chancery. He was an agent for Charles II. in England, and is mentioned by 

 "Whitelocke (Memorials) as being confined in the Tower (1649). He was an 

 uncle of John Penruddock's. See also 3 Thurloe 459, where he is called by 

 Manning, " the king's prime agent." 



7 Ludlow, vol., i. 



