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of £300 charged on the same as the portion of Anne, his daughter, 
still unpaid ;—also, from the same source, £100 a year to Amy, his 
mother, who is still living and in actual receipt of the same ;—also, 
£6 a year to the poor of Reading,—one pound to Joan Wheeler, 
and thirty-one shillings to the lord of the fee, all chargeable on the 
same estate. 
Fine, £200, declared 4th May, 1649. 
All these liabilities, added to his personal expenses in the war, 
must have gone far to make Mr. Aldworth’s birthright a profitless 
attribute ; besides the risk, as in many similar cases, of alienating 
his family relations by compromising their interests. And, on his 
remonstrating, the next year, on the score of the legacies not having 
been fairly taken into consideration, the only reply he gets is as 
follows at the foot of his memorial :—* First fine to stand. 10 
April, 1650.” 
Sir Epwarp Atrorp, of Offington, Co. Sussex, M.P. for Arundel, 
disabled in 1644, held in Wilts a farm and other lands at Whitsbury, 
for the remainder of a term having eighty years to run, held of Sir 
Anthony Ashley Cooper, worth per annum before the troubles £194, 
Fine on his entire estate at first declared at £2908, and reduced 
upon the Articles of Exeter to £1284. But he appears to have paid 
more eventually, besides being compelled to endow ministers (a 
frequent form of penalty) in Cheltenham, Charlton, and Market 
Harborough. 
Tuomas, Lorp ARUNDEL, second baron of Wardour, died in his 
sixtieth year at Oxford, on the 9th of May, 1648, from wounds 
which he had received a few days previously, presumably at the 
skirmish near Launceston (but certainly not at Lansdowne fight, as 
has been frequently stated, for this latter event did not occur till 
two months later. The mistake may have arisen from the resem- 
blance in sound between the two places. It is true Lord Clarendon 
speaks of a Lord Arundel of Wardour being wounded, though not 
fatally, at Lansdowne, on the 5th of July, but this must have been 
Henry, the third baron. There is abundant proof that his father, 
Thomas, was not then alive). 
Shortly before Lord Thomas’s death his castle of Wardour was 
