About Thomas Penruddock
Lived 1578 – 1637 (aged 58–59). Thomas Penruddock was a politician.
Thomas Penruddock (c. 1578 – 1637) was an English politician.
He was a member (MP) of the parliament of England for Downton in 1601 and Cumberland 1614.
In John Aubrey's Brief Lives a fragment about Penruddock states that "(It was a) capital (offence) for a native Irishman to come to Dublin without a passe. Sir . . . espying . . . went into the corne . . . found him and hung him up immediately", the source being given as "Mr Anderson", with a note saying that this was a fragment on the "severity of the penal laws", and Mr Anderson was an informant on Irish matters in the life of Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork.
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English politician
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Thomas Penruddock was born in 1578.
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Thomas Penruddock died in 1637.
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Thomas Penruddock was a politician.
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