He had an elder brother, George, who died in 1664, and four sisters, and thus succeeded to his father's estates while still a minor.
[3] On 26 July 1666, Penruddocke matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, when his age was given as seventeen.
[4] In 1672, by a licence dated 9 July 1672, Penruddocke married Frances Hanham, daughter of John Hanham, Esq., of Iwerne Courtney, Dorset, and they had at least nine children, John, Edward, Jane, Thomas, George, Charles, Arundel, Lucy, and Frances.
[3][5] In 1680, Thomas Thynne of Longleat gave Penruddocke a licence for hawking, hunting, fishing and fowling in Dinton, Wiltshire.
This was the parliament which passed the Bill of Rights following the Glorious Revolution, inviting William III and Mary II to take the throne of King James II.