Penruddock uprising

Penruddock uprising

The Penruddock uprising was one of a series of coordinated uprisings planned by the Sealed Knot for a Royalist insurrection to start in March 1655 during the Protectorate of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.

There were plans to seize Salisbury, Newcastle, York and Winchester and instigate smaller uprisings in Nottinghamshire and Cheshire. The New Model Army garrison in Winchester was reinforced shortly before the uprising so plans to attack it were abandoned. No men answered the call in Cheshire, but risings did take place in the other places. However, at all of the locations except Salisbury, the Royalists disbanded without a fight due to lack of support.

The rendezvous point for the York uprising was on Marston Moor and is notable for the presence of Earl of Rochester who had arrived from the exiled court of Charles II to take part, it was put down by Colonel Robert Lilburne Governor of York and on its failure Rochester fled the country.

Sir John Penruddock along with Sir Joseph Wagstaffe organised and lead the Royalist uprising in the West. On March 11 Penruddock with between 300 and 400 other Cavaliers took Salisbury and raised the Royal standard. The next morning he led his followers out of Salisbury heading west through Blandford, Sherborne and Yeovil hoping to pick up more supporters, but a single troop of horse of the New Model Army under Captain Unton Crook defeated them after a three-hour street fight in South Molton in Devon on 14 March. Most of the Royalists either fled or were killed but Crook captured Penruddock and the other ringleaders.

In 1655 Oliver Cromwell appointed the judge Sir Hugh Wyndham to the commission of oyer and terminer charged with dealing with the Penruddock uprising, and for his part in the rebellion Penruddock was beheaded in May of that year, other Royalists who took part were executed and 70 were shipped to the West Indies and sold as indentured labour (slaves).

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5853/Disbrowe/ch_08.html Original letters and other communications] between Oliver Cromwell and Major General of the West John Disbrowe They are all dated 1654 which conflicts with the other sources.
* [http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/penruddocks-uprising.htm Penruddock's Uprising, 1655]
* [http://www.reenacting.co.uk/henry-wansey.shtml Biography] of Henry Wansey who was in Salilsbury at the time of the uprising
* [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide17/timeline33.html Sealed Knot]


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