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Melbury Abbess, in Dorset, and of Kingsdown, in Somerset, in 
April— Wardour Park, consisting of two divisions, the fallow-deer 
park and the red-deer park, 17 J uly —Tollard-royal with its tene- 
ments and appurtenances in Wilts and Dorset, 16 August—South 
Petherton, in Somerset, 18 August—Bridzor, 19 August—Mes- 
suages and lands in Sutton Mandeville and Donhead manor, all in 
Wilts, 2 September—Manor of Goddington, in Oxon, 13 September 
—Semble, in Wilts, 15 September—Somerton, in Oxon, 28 Septem- 
ber—Humphrey Weld and Walter Barnes bought the manor of 
Font-Mell in Dorset, 22 June; and Nicholas Green bought, 30 
July, Meere Park, with the lodge, in Wilts. A fine was adjudged 
16 June, 1653, of £711 14s. 6d., as applicable to two-thirds of the 
estate. 
The adjustment of Lord Arundel’s sequestration, like that of 
many other sufferers by the protracted and vexatious delays at 
Goldsmith’s Hall, was apparently facilitated by the personal ad- 
vocacy of Oliver Cromwell. Indeed it became a common practice 
for the petitioning Royalists to make their appeal to him as to a 
common deliverer, as the one person who would get justice done for 
them if possible. Lady Chandos once presented a petition to him 
on her knees, in behalf of her husband, who, together with Lord 
Arundel of Wardour, was to be tried on the following day. This 
was in 1653, when so many were anticipating his assumption of the 
supreme power. With the tenderness towards women which he 
habitually manifested he courteously rebuked her for exaggerating 
his supposed influence. With his action in Lord Arundel’s affair it 
even looks as though a sentiment of mutual courtesy had become 
mingled. The ensuing document may partly indicate this, as also 
the testimony of John Aubrey when he tells us of Lord Arundel’s 
dining with Oliver one day at Hampton Court :— 
‘“‘Wueruas it hath appeared to his Highness the Lord Protector and his 
Council that Henry Lord Arundel ought by virtue of an Act of the late Parlia- 
ment published 22 November 1652, to have been admitted to compound for his 
estate according to certain rules in the said Act mentioned :—And whereas his 
estate being nevertheless exposed to sale, it further appeared that the money by 
him or in his behalf paid in towards the purchase thereof to the trustees for sale 
of delinquents’ lands for the use of the Commonwealth, doth exceed the fine 
