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Penruddock uprising

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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. [1]

31 relations: Battle of Marston Moor, Blandford Forum, Channel 4, Charles II of England, Cheshire, Colonel, Devon, Henry Wansey, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, High treason, Hugh Wyndham, John Desborough, John Penruddock, Joseph Wagstaffe, Lord Protector, Martin Noell, New Model Army, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottinghamshire, Oliver Cromwell, Oyer and terminer, Robert Lilburne, Salisbury, Sealed Knot, Sherborne, South Molton, The Protectorate, William Wake, Winchester, Yeovil, York.

Battle of Marston Moor

The Battle of Marston Moor was fought on 2 July 1644, during the First English Civil War of 1642–1646.

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Blandford Forum

Blandford Forum, commonly Blandford, is a market town in the North Dorset district of Dorset, England, sited by the River Stour about northwest of Poole.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Colonel

Colonel ("kernel", abbreviated Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank below the brigadier and general officer ranks.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Henry Wansey

Henry Wansey (1752?–1827) was an English antiquary, who was by trade a clothier, but retired from business in middle life and devoted his leisure to travel, to literature, and to antiquarian research.

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Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester

Lieutenant-General Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (26 October 1612 – 19 February 1658), known as The Lord Wilmot between 1643 and 1644 and as The Viscount Wilmot between 1644 and 1652, was an English Cavalier who fought for the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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High treason

Treason is criminal disloyalty.

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Hugh Wyndham

Sir Hugh Wyndham SL (1602 – 24 December 1684), of Silton, near Gillingham, Dorset, was an English Judge of the Common Pleas and a Baron of the Exchequer.

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John Desborough

John Desborough (1608–1680) was an English soldier and politician who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.

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John Penruddock

Colonel John Penruddock (or Penruddocke, 1619–1655), of Compton Chamberlayne, was an English Cavalier during the English Civil War and the English Interregnum.

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Joseph Wagstaffe

Sir Joseph Wagstaffe (1611? – 1666/67) was a Royalist officer during the English Civil War and one of the leaders in the Penruddock uprising of 1655.

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Lord Protector

Lord Protector (pl. Lords Protectors) is a title that has been used in British constitutional law for the head of state.

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Martin Noell

Sir Martin Noell was an eminent London merchant, engaged in an extensive colonial trade that included the slave trade.

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New Model Army

The New Model Army of England was formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, and was disbanded in 1660 after the Restoration.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (pronounced or; abbreviated Notts) is a county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.

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Oyer and terminer

In English law, Oyer and terminer (a partial translation of the Anglo-French oyer et terminer which literally means "to hear and to determine") was the Law French name for one of the commissions by which a judge of assize sat.

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Robert Lilburne

Colonel Robert Lilburne (1613–1665) was the older brother of John Lilburne, the well known Leveller.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Sealed Knot

The Sealed Knot was a secret Royalist association which plotted for the Restoration of the Monarchy during the English Interregnum.

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Sherborne

Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England.

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South Molton

South Molton is a small town in Devon, England.

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The Protectorate

The Protectorate was the period during the Commonwealth (or, to monarchists, the Interregnum) when England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland were governed by a Lord Protector as a republic.

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William Wake

William Wake (26 January 1657 – 24 January 1737) was a priest in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1716 until his death in 1737.

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Winchester

Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.

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Yeovil

Yeovil is an English town and civil parish in the district of South Somerset, with a population of 45,000.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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Penruddock's Rising, Penruddock's Uprising.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penruddock_uprising

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