Penruddock

Threlkeld sits in a wide glaciated valley between Keswick in the west and Penruddock to the east.

Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

The rising of Penruddock at Salisbury suppressed and Penruddock executed.

1652 2001

Wagstaff seizes the Judges in their beds, seizes the High Sheriff, and otherwise makes night hideous; -- proposes on the morrow to hang the Judges, as a useful warning; but is overruled by Penruddock and the rest.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

We took Penruddock, Grove, and long lists of others; Wagstaff unluckily escaped ... and this Royalist conflagration, which should have blazed all over England, is entirely damped out.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

Hoping to find a large gathering of Levellers in arms against the Protector, many of the principal Yorkshire landowners, of higher rank and more influential than poor Penruddock or any of his comrades, met that night on Marston Moor.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

Near Upavon, but down stream, is the small and ancient manor house of Chisenbury, until lately the property of the Groves, one of whose ancestors suffered death for his participation in the rising of Colonel Penruddock during the Commonwealth.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

In the spring of 1654, Charles II was proclaimed King in South Molton, for the Wiltshire gentlemen who had risen against the Government, headed by Sir Joseph Wagstaff and led by Colonel Penruddock and Mr Hugh Groves, made their way so far west before they were overpowered.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Upon the quarter-deck was Penruddock the surgeon, who bustled forward to greet us himself as loquacious as ever and very loud in praise of the cure he had once wrought in me; and here, too, was Godby, to make a leg to my lady and grasp my hand.

Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

Penruddock, standing squarely before the steward, admonished him very sternly.

The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

Barter was one Colonel Penruddock -- the vindictive son of that Penruddock whom the late John Lisle -- whilst Lord President of the High Court -- had sentenced to death some thirty years ago for participation in an unsuccessful Wiltshire rising against the Commonwealth.

The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912