318 The Wiltshire Compounders. 
which by the rules aforesaid the same would have amounted unto.—Bz it there- 
fore ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector by and with the advice and 
consent of his Council, that in pursuance of the said Henry Lord Arundel’s desires 
and consent declared, and in the consideration of the money which hath been 
already paid unto the trustees for sale of delinquents’ lands by or in behalf of 
the said Henry Lord Arundel whereof the £4785 18s. 3d. deposited in the-hands 
of the Registrar of Drury House are to be accounted part and to be applied to 
the use of the Commonwealth :—The said Trustees be and are hereby authorised 
and required absolutely to grant and convey all the lands and estates of the said 
Henry Lord Arundel which are vested in the said trustees unto Humphrey Weld 
esq. Walter Barnes and William Hurman gent and their heirs; and to deliver up 
and release unto the said persons afore-named, having purchased the premises, 
all such grants and securities as have been given by them to the said trustees 
for sale of delinquents’ lands for or towards the second moieties of any part of 
the said estate in such and the same sort as if the whole purchase money con- 
tracted and due for the same had been paid and satisfied to the use of the 
Commonwealth. 
‘‘ Henry ScoBELtL, 
‘« Passed, 11 April 1654. “* Clerk of the Council.” 
Tue Hon. Witt1am Arvunpvet, of Horningsham, second son of 
Thomas, the first Lord Arundel of Wardour. 
So far back as the winter of 1640-41, William Arundel and the 
Lady Mary St. John, his wife, then in London, had addressed a 
petition to the Lords, setting forth that at the recent sessions in 
the County of Wilts they had both been indicted for recusancy 
(Romanism) ; whereunto if they failed to appear personally at the 
next sessions they would be convicted unless the same were removed 
by certiorari. And forasmuch as their place of appearance was 
distant from London eighty miles, and the said William Arundel 
being a man of weak and infirm body was unable to perform so 
long a journey without imminent danger, and for divers other 
causes expressed in the petition; therefore they prayed that a certiorari 
might be allowed, to remove the said indictment out of Wiltshire 
into the King’s Bench. To which the Lords assented. Various 
other petitions of his are extant, their general tenour being that in 
consequence of a deposition made in his favour by the Wilts Com- 
mittee in 1650 his estates were sequestrable as those of a papist 
only, and not of a delinquent. Two-thirds of his estate in Wilts, 
which county he observes was his constant residence, were now 
sequestered, but this was for recusancy only. He was never a 
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