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Above this, in a niche, is a carving representing the head of 
Our Saviour, with a Latin inscription, translated, ‘‘ Under Thy 
protection may our house and race be upheld.” Both inscriptions 
are quite legible. 
Lanherne, above referred to, is in Cornwall, not far from 
Bedruthan Steps. The village of Mawgan is in the Vale of 
Lanherne. The Arundells became possessed of the property in 
1231, but on the failure of the direct line of the Cornish 
Arundells, it passed into the hands of the Lords Arundell of 
Wardour, by one of whom it was assigned in 1794 for the use of 
a convent of English Theresian nuns, who had been driven from 
Antwerp by the French invasion of Belgium. 
Sir Matthew Arundell’s son, Sir Thomas, was for his services 
in the Hungarian campaign against the Turks, created by the 
Emperor Rodolph II. a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. 
Queen Elizabeth. declined to recognise this dignity, but James I. 
created Sir Thomas Baron Arundell of Wardour. His son 
entertained Charles I. at Wardour, and in the following year 
accompanied him to Oxford. During his absence, the Parliamen- 
tary forces under Sir Edward Hungerford and Colonel Strode 
attacked Wardour. Lady Blanche, on her husband’s behalf, 
bravely defended the castle with her little garrison of 35 men, 
against 1,300 of the enemy, but at last, worn out, had to surrender 
which she did on honourable terms, which, however, were not 
observed by the enemy, on the 8th May, 1643. Eleven days 
later Lord Arundell died at Oxford of wounds received at the 
battle of Lansdown. 
Within a fortnight the heir, Henry, third Lord Arundell, whose 
wife and two sons were still prisoners, besieged Wardour and 
eventually retook it‘in March, 1644. He determined on de- 
molishing the castle to prevent its falling again into the hands of 
the Parliamentarians, and by battery and mining reduced it to 
the state in which it now appears. The hill on which his guns 
