276 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book XI. 



of the secret the entire developments of which were still 

 only known to Louis XIV., Charles II., and the Duchess of 

 Orleans.* 



^^^ Richard Arundel, Esq., eldest son of John Arundel, Esq., 

 of Trerice, M.P. for Cornwall temp. Elizabeth, James I. and 

 Charles I., and Mary, daughter of George Cary, Esq., of 

 Clovelly, Devon. Richard Arundel sat in the two last Par- 

 liaments of Charles I., for Lostwithiel, and in his military 

 capacity served on the staff of the martyred monarch. This 

 gallant officer had a command in the battle of Kineton, in 

 the county of Warwick, where he displayed the hereditary 

 valour of his family, and he was subsequently actively engaged 

 during the whole of the civil wars, in which disastrous contest 

 he was despoiled of the entire of his landed property. On 

 the re-establishment of the monarchy, however, that was 

 restored to him, and, in consequence of the devotedness of his 

 father, his brothers, and himself, to the royal cause, he was 

 elevated to the peerage by letters patent, dated March 23, 

 1664, as Baron Arundel of Trerice, county Cornwall. He 

 married Gertrude, daughter of Sir James Bagge, Knight, of 

 Saltram, county Devon, and died in 1688. 



^"^Sir Thomas Clifford — eldest son of Hugh Clifford, Esq., 

 of Ugbroke Park, county Devon, and Mary, daughter of Sir 

 George Chudleigh, Bart. — was born on August i, 1630, and 

 after filling several of the highest official appointments, was 

 elevated to the peerage by the title of Baron CLIFFORD of 

 Chudleigh, April 22, 1672. The influence which Lord 

 Clifford, by his industry and eloquence, had acquired in 

 the House of Commons, had originally recommended him 

 to the notice of the ministers of the crown, and under the 

 patronage of Lord Arlington, he had rapidly advanced in 

 preferment. When the Cabal Government was formed, he 

 held the offices of Privy Councillor, Treasurer of the House- 

 hold, and Commissioner of the Treasury. He was brave, 

 generous, and ambitious ; constant in his friendships, and 



* " Lives of the Princesses of England," by Mrs. Wood, vol. vi. p. 524. 



