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of £300 charged on the same as the portion of Anne, his daughter, 

 still unpaid ; — also, from the same source, £100 a year to Amy, his 

 mother, who is still living and in actual receipt of the same also, 

 £6 a year to the poor of Reading, — one pound to Joan Wheeler, 

 and thirty-one shillings to the lord of the fee, all chargeable on the 

 same estate. 



Fine, £200, declared 4th May, 1649. 



All these liabilities, added to his personal expenses in the war, 

 must have gone far to make Mr. Aid worth's birthright a profitless 

 attribute ; besides the risk, as in many similar cases, of alienating 

 his family relations by compromising their interests. And, on his 

 remonstrating, the next year, on the score of the legacies not having 

 been fairly taken into consideration, the only reply he gets is as 

 follows at the foot of his memorial " First fine to stand. 10 

 April, 1650." 



Sir Edward Alford, of Offington, Co. Sussex, M.P. for Arundel, 

 disabled in 1644, held in Wilts a farm and other lands at Whitsbury, 

 for the remainder of a term having eighty years to run, held of Sir 

 Anthony Ashley Cooper, worth per annum before the troubles £194. 

 Fine on his entire estate at first declared at £2908, and reduced 

 upon the Articles of Exeter to £1284. But he appears to have paid 

 more eventually, besides being compelled to endow ministers (a 

 frequent form of penalty) in Cheltenham, Charlton, and Market 

 Harborough. 



Thomas, Lord Arundel, second baron of Wardour, died in his 

 sixtieth year at Oxford, on the 9th of May, 1643, from wounds 

 which he had received a few days previously, presumably at the 

 skirmish near Launceston (but certainly not at Lansdowne fight, as 

 has been frequently stated, for this latter event did not occur till 

 two months later. The mistake may have arisen from the resem- 

 blance in sound between the two places. It is true Lord Clarendon 

 speaks of a Lord Arundel of Wardour being wounded, though not 

 fatally, at Lansdowne, on the 5th of July, but this must have been 

 Henry, the third baron. There is abundant proof that his father, 

 Thomas, was not then alive) . 



Shortly before Lord Thomas's death his castle of Wardour was 



