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Melbury Abbess, in Dorset, and of Kingsdown, in Somerset, in 

 April— Wardour Park, consisting of two divisions, the fallow-deer 

 park and the red-deer park, 17 July— Tollard-royal with its tene- 

 ments and appurtenances in Wilts and Dorset, 16 August — South 

 Petherton, in Somerset, 18 August— Bridzor, 19 August— Mes- 

 suages and lands in Sutton Mandeville and Donhead manor, all in 

 Wilts, 2 September— Manor of Goddington, in Oxon, 13 September 

 — Semble, in Wilts, 15 September— Somerton, in Oxon, 28 Septem- 

 ber—Humphrey Weld and Walter Barnes bought the manor of 

 Font-Mell in Dorset, 22 June ; and Nicholas Green bought, 30 

 July, Meere Park, with the lodge, in Wilts. A fine was adjudged 

 16 June, 1653, of £711 14*. 6d. } as applicable to two-thirds of the 

 estate. 



The adjustment of Lord Arundel's sequestration, like that of 

 many other sufferers by the protracted and vexatious delays at 

 Goldsmith's Hall, was apparently facilitated by the personal ad- 

 vocacy of Oliver Cromwell. Indeed it became a common practice 

 for the petitioning Royalists to make their appeal to him as to a 

 common deliverer, as the one person who would get justice done for 

 them if possible. Lady Chandos once presented a petition to him 

 on her knees, in behalf of her husband, who, together with Lord 

 Arundel of Wardour, was to be tried on the following day. This 

 was in 1653, when so many were anticipating his assumption of the 

 supreme power. With the tenderness towards women which he 

 habitually manifested he courteously rebuked her for exaggerating 

 his supposed influence. With his action in Lord Arundel's affair it 

 even looks as though a sentiment of mutual courtesy had become 

 mingled. The ensuing document may partly indicate this, as also 

 the testimony of John Aubrey when he tells us of Lord Arundel's 

 dining with Oliver one day at Hampton Court 



" Whebeas it hath appeared to his Highness the Lord Protector and his 

 Council that Henry Lord Arundel ought by virtue of an Act of the late Parlia- 

 ment published 22 November 1652, to have been admitted to compound for his 

 estate according to certain rules in the said Act mentioned :— And whereas his 

 estate being nevertheless exposed to sale, it further appeared that the money by 

 him or in his behalf paid in towards the purchase thereof to the trustees for sale 

 of delinquents' lands for the use of the Commonwealth, doth exceed the fine 



