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attacked and captured by Sir Edward Hungerford and Edmund 

 Ludlow at the head of a body of local troops ; and Ludlow being- 

 then left in command had himself to sustain a siege of several 

 months from the Royalists under Doddington and the young Lord 

 Arundel, a detailed narrative of all which may be seen in Ludlow's 

 Memoirs and the Seward Anecdotes, but cannot be here recited, as 

 our present subject has reference mainly to the penalties enforced by 

 sequestration. 



Henry, Lord Arundel of Wardour. The proceedings against 

 this nobleman were instituted by virtue of an Act passed in 1652 , 

 long after the conclusion of the war, and styled an " Additional 

 Bill for the sale of several lands and estates forfeited to the Common- 

 wealth for treason."" The first notice we have is the following 

 letter having reference to the late lord, sent to the London com- 

 mittee by the sequestrators at that time acting in the south of Wilts, 

 viz., William Ludlow, of Clarendon Park ; Nicholas Green, of 

 Winterbourne Stoke ; and Bennet Swayne, of Wilton (ancestor of 

 the late clerks of the peace for this county) : — 



" Sarum, 21 June 1652 



" Honotjbable In answer to your desire of 10th June last concerniDg the 

 time of sequestering the estate of Thomas late Lord Arundel of Wardour, he was 

 never sequestered for delinquency before his death, for we find no such thing 

 upon record : And we are well informed that he died at the beginning of the 

 year 1643 at Oxford, at the time when his house was made a garrison, and before 

 the sitting of any committee in this county. Signed by Ludlow, Green, and 

 Swayne." 



As three-fourths of the estates of those convicted of the two-fold 

 offence of recusancy and delinquency were sold absolutely, though 

 frequently under circumstances which favoured their easy return to 

 the right owners, it becomes impossible in a case like the present to 

 give even an approximation to the total loss sustained by the se- 

 questrated party. Absolute ruin was often averted by the inter- 

 position of friends or relatives who became the nominal purchasers ; 

 while the sums given were probably never publicly known. In the 

 case of Henry, Lord Arundel, the following conveyances were all 

 declared in 1653 as made to Humphrey Weld, his brother-in-law, 

 Walter Barnes, and William Hurman, Esquires.— The manors of 



