Colonel John Penruddock led a Royalist rising in Wiltshire on 12 March 1655, seizing Salisbury at dawn. The insurgents interrupted the assizes, released prisoners from the gaol, and briefly held the city before Parliamentary horse was summoned. The Salisbury seizure was the most dramatic moment of the Western Association Royalist plot made actual.
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