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violated by the victors; and how Sir Thomas soon returned and 
compelled Edmund Ludlow, left in command, to yield up his prize 
after a gallant resistance, and as it is said, sprung a mine under 
his own castle, and thus caused these picturesque ruins, the 
present home of the owl and the bat—all these events the dent 
of the cannon balls in the outer wall conjured up. A story writ 
in Latin over the doorway runs thus :— 
Gentis Arundelice Thomas Lanhernia proles 
Junior, hic meruit primo sedere loco ; 
Ut sedit cecidit sine crimine plectitur ille 
Insons, insontem fata secunda probant ; 
Nam que patris erant Mattheus filius emit, 
Empta auxit studio principis, aucta manent ; 
Comprecor aucta diu maneant augenda per cevum ! 
Hee dedit eripuit restituitque Deus. 
This same Sir Thomas died of wounds received at the battle of 
Lansdown, 1648. 
The Secretary is indebted to Henry Ford, the intelligent care- 
taker of the ruins, for a copy of this inscription. Leaving this 
now peaceful spot with some regret, the members passed through 
the park, visiting a fine ancient and historical oak tree on the 
way, and entered the chapel of the modern house, the present 
proprietor, Lord Arundell of Wardour, having giving them 
permission to see it, the pictures being unfortunately closed to 
them, owing to domestic reasons, for the day. As the elderly 
domestic who admitted them was unable or unwilling to give any 
account of the pictures therein, a very short stay was made, and 
the party returned to Tisbury and saw the Church, a fine cruciform 
structure, with old wooden roofs and good brasses inside. On the 
chancel wall was hung up a helmet, trophy of one of the earlier 
barons, a brave and successful soldier, who warred against the 
Turks, and was for this created Count of the Sacred Roman 
Empire, 1595. A black marble slab in the chancel records this. 
Round the edge runs the following :— 
Thome Arundelie primi Baronis- de Warder et Sac: Rom: Imp; 
