By W. W. Bavenhitt, Esq. 



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visited Compton. I find amongst the Domestic State papers of 

 that period, the following certificate which tells its own tale :■ — 



" Upon search made into the Books and papers relating to Sequestrations and 

 Compositions in my custody as Registrar to the Commissioners for compounding 

 and managing Estates under sequestration I find that John Penruddoek of 

 Compton in the County of Wilts Esquire compounded for his delinquency and 

 the estate mentioned in the report hereunto annexed and by me attested for 

 which he had a fine of one thousand pounds set, which said fine was all paid 

 into the Treasury at Goldsmith's Hall by the 6th of June, 1649. 



Examined May 1657." * 



I have not been able to discover the report alluded to in the above 

 certificate. The " me " is Mr. F. Bailey, who was the registrar of 

 the certificates. 



In a family account book there are the following entries in 

 Colonel Penruddock's own handwriting : — 



£ s. d. 



Paid for my Composition 1300 00 00 



My own debts contracted during 



Six years sequestratation 1500 00 00 



There were some dealings too between the Commissioners and 



Hugh Grove, for Sir R. Hoare 1 mentions a grant made by them to 



John Dove, Esquire, of New S arum, the Protector's High Sheriff 



for Wilts, bearing date September 28th, 1650, of the reversion in 



fee of the Chisenbury priory estate, and in that it is said to belong 



to Hugh Grove the elder, the father of "our Hugh/' under a 



lease dated September 15th, 1640, granted to him for the lives of 



his two sons Hugh and Robert, and his grandson Hugh, the son of 



Hugh the younger. The property at this day still belongs to the 



Grove family. 



It is clear from the above statements, that Penruddoek if not 

 Grove, fought for the crown. 



I pass over here as beyond my present purpose, all events that 

 led to the death of the King, which happened a few w r eeks after the 

 pleasant hospitalities of Lord Francis Seymour — I pass over the 

 steps by which General Cromwell became Lord Protector of this 

 realm — as also the session of Parliament which assembled on " 1 1 is 



* State Papers, Domestic Series. Interregnum. Commissioners for compounding with Delin- 

 quents. No. 323. 



1 Modern Wilts, Hund. Elstub and Evcrlcy, 17. 



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