30 OLD WARDOUR CASTLE. 



born in 1560, avIio in 1579 obtained permission from Queen 

 Elizabeth to travel on the Continent, and six years later to serve 

 in the army of the Emperor of Germany. At that time the. 

 Turkish power extended to Hungary, and on August 13th, 1595, 

 Sir Thomas at the siege of Gran slew the Turkish standard 

 bearer, and carried oflf the standard. ^For this gallant deed the 

 Emperor conferred on him the title of Count of tlie Holy Roman 

 Empire. On his return to England he was shipwrecked, losing 

 all the valuable jewels that the grateful Emperor had bestowed 

 on him ; ten years later he was created Baron of "Wardour, 

 and commanded the English forces sent to assist the Spaniards 

 against Holland. He died in 1639 and was buried at Tisbury. 

 He was succeeded by his son, another Thomas, who died of wounds 

 received when fighting on the Royalist side near Bath. His death 

 occurred at Oxford on May 19th, 1643. His wife is that Lady 

 Arundell whose name is remembered for her spirited defence of 

 this castle from April 30th to May 8th, 1643, against the 

 besieging army of the Parliament. She had at last to 

 surrender, and then the victors were themselves besieged, and 

 after it had held out for a longer time the castle was re-taken by 

 the Royalist army under the new Lord Arundell, who blew up 

 part of the walls and rendered it impossible foi it to be defended 

 much longer. The castle ever since has been an uninhabited ruin, 

 the family residing in a neighbouring house, now the farmhouse, 

 which you can see to the left hand, until in 1776 the new castle 

 commenced by the eighth Lord Arundell, six years earlier, was 

 ready for occupation. 



We must now turn to the two sieges of the castle during the 

 Civil War. AVe have two accounts of the first siege. The Royalist 

 one is given in detail, Avhile Colonel Ludlow's is much briefer. 

 Eor the second siege our chief authority is Colonel Ludlow, who in 

 his memoirs gives us many interesting details which want of time 

 will oblige me to pass over. 



The story of the first siege is soon told. On Tuesday, May 2nd, 

 1643, Sir Edward Hungerford, commander of the Parliamentary 



