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



march into Cornwal, where he hoped to have found a very considerable party 

 to have joyned with him." 



Besides these informations he would have that against Edmond 

 Maclean apothecary of Salisbury, who Mr. St. Loe mentions as being* 

 at Penruddock's the Friday before the rising and to have been the chief 

 of the intended Marlborough raid. 1 Mack's heart failing him some 

 few hours after he left Salisbury , he returned thither and surrendered 

 himself to Lieut. Heely or Huly, and Mr. William Eyre/ and was 

 by them sent up to London. Col. Dove thought him a spy 3 from 

 the enemy, and whether at his instance or on St. Loe's information, 

 the Government pressed the prosecution against him, though desired 

 to forego it. The Collier, mentioned in the Secretary's notes, was 

 also in London, assisting the Government. He is spoken of as " a 

 considerable witness/' 4 Possibly he was one of the sons of the 

 Rector of Steeple Langford, who with Wake held a house at Molton 

 against Crook and his soldiers for four hours, and then only sur- 

 rendered on articles. 5 But this is mere surmise, as both the Colliers 

 were afterwards put upon their trial. 



About the 20th of March, Colonels John Penruddock and Francis 

 Jones were brought to London without their companions, Grove or 

 Hunt. 6 



Crook wrote to Thurloe on that day from Exeter :— 



"Upon My Lord Protector's Letter I immediately sent away Mr. John Pen- 

 ruddocke and Francis Jones; within some few howers after I had received an 

 expresse from you, cleering any doubt I make of the person, because there were 

 two of the name in goale ; but the considerablenesse of the person guide me 

 aright."* " . . 



1 Pp. 146, 148, sup. 2 3 Th., 380. 3 Ibid, 243. 4 Ibid, 365. 



5 Ibid, 368. 6 Yide Mr. Secretary's notes above. 



* This alludes to Edward Penruddock, whose name will be found on Disbrowe's list of prisoners. 

 He was probably a son of John Penruddock's uncle, Henry Penruddock, who was a King's 

 agent in this country in 1649. (see note, p. 122 , sup.) T find the following items relating to him in 

 one of the family account books, in John Penruddock's own handwiiting : — 



.Nov. 4th, 1654. Paid for my cousin, Edward Penruddock, to Mr. Oliver, 



for wbich my father and myself were bound a hundred £ s. d. 

 pound for principal and 80 pound for interest 180 00 00 



Lent to him by my father at Sarum 040 00 00 



Lent to him myself whilst he was in the Tower 010 00 00 



Paid for him to Mr. Woodward of Bristol 010 00 00 



Paid for him to my aunt Mead, for interest 006 00 00 



The disbursements 

 since my father's 



death Paid to Mr. Oliver for a debt of my cousin Penruddock's, 



for which myself and my father stood engaged 0180 00 00 



A cousin who lived not on air ! Crook's letter will be found at 3 Th., 281, 



