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delinquent to the Parliament, nor so adjudged by any committee ; 
nevertheless, from some mistake in the duplicate of a rental (sze) 
from the late committee of London, where he was altogether un- 
known, certain houses on Tower Hill were described as sequestered 
as the estate of William Arundel, a delinquent, which occasioned 
the petitioner’s name to be returned as a papist-delinquent, and his 
estate to be put into the bill of sale, to the ruin of the petitioner and 
his posterity, if not speedily relieved by the interference of the new 
commissioners. Endorsed thus :—‘It appearing that he is seques- 
tered for delinquency, the committee can do nothing in it.”’ His 
fine was set at £333 6s. 8d., from which it may be inferred that the 
estates were not sold. 
In proof of William Arundel’s delinquency it was stated that he 
had been a colonel in the King’s army, a report which the Wilts 
Committee appear to have discredited. Neither did they deem 
sundry depositions which were made with the same object at Devizes 
in 1650 sufficient evidence of active personal hostility to the Parlia- 
ment. Those depositions were as follows :— 
“ John Oliver, of Horningsham, yeoman, saith :—that in the time of the late 
war, Mr. Arundel kept a garrison in his house at Woodhouse, and did send 
letters to and inform the King’s Commissioners against this deponent, declaring 
that he was a Roundhead; and he took a warrant from the tythingman of 
Horningsham, sent by the King’s party, and conveyed the same to Sir Edward. 
Hungerford. Moreover he enforced this deponent to pay unto him, Mr. Arundel, 
and to his son, ten quarters of oats and £3 10s. in money ; and did several 
times use this deponent very inhumanely for his affection to the Parliament.” 
“Richard Millard, of Horningsham, saith :—that Mr. Arundel rode armed 
with his sword and pistols to Oxford, then a King’s garrison, and carried with 
him six horses, and this deponent, armed likewise with a carabine, rode with 
bim as his servant from Woodhouse to Oxford, although Mr. Arundel had 
promised to go to Sir Edward Hungerford with the said horses. And Mr. 
Arundel was at the garrison of Bristol at the time when Major Wansey with his 
forces came to Woodhouse.” 
‘*John King, of Horningsham, saith:—that he being a weaver and servant 
to Mr. Beard, a clothier, Mr. Arundel came to his house at nine or ten at night, 
and, with a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other, asked what rebel rogues 
he kept in his house, threatening that if he would not deliver up the rebel Beard 
he would lay him the deponent in gaol for three months, and afterwards deliver 
him up. He then demanded a green-grey cloth of Mr. Beard’s, or stuff to make 
it; and this he did because Beard was well affected to the Parliament. This 
