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After the Colonel's death, his son George petitioned Parliament for the restoration of his property, claiming that he and his father had lived there, having no other abode, without 'takeing up arms of doing any other act against the Parliament', while King Charles I had garrisoned the castle as late as 23 June, 1645, and allegedly against the Praters' wishes. George Prater complained that, on succeeding his father, he was 'returned as a Papist in arms, which really he never was'. But his father, at least, in spite of his subsequent attempt to change sides, had accepted the King's Commission and had been prvocative enough to fly a flag bearing a crucifix during the siege of Nunney, and the son's petition was accordingly ignored. A little later, his aged mother, "ready to starve", was allowed something out of the ruin of her old home (Nunney Manors fees). The commonwealth sequestrators leased the property to a man called High Pickfatt. One of George Prater's grand-daughters later married one of the Pickfatts, to the chagrin of her own family who despised them as ill-bred tradsmen. Subsequently the sequestrators sold the castle. -- Gary Prather

Will	12 Apr 1694	co. Somerset, ENG
Death	Aft 12 Apr 1694

Father	Col. Richard PRATER of Nunney Castle (1585 - 1645)
Sibling	Richard PRATER of Nunney & Womister, co. Somerset ( - 1694)
Sibling	Anne PRATER ( - 1694)