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The Wiltshire Compounders. 



which by the rules aforesaid tlie same would have amounted unto. — Be it there- 

 fore ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector by and with the advice and 

 consent of his Council, that in pursuance of the said Henry Lord Arundel's desires 

 and consent declared, and in the consideration of the money which hath been 

 already paid unto the trustees for sale of delinquents' lands by or in behalf of 

 the said Henry Lord Arundel whereof the £4785 18-s. 3d. deposited in the hands 

 of the Registrar of Drury House are to be accounted part and to be applied to 

 the use of the Commonwealth :— The said Trustees be and are hereby authorised 

 and required absolutely to grant and convey all the lands and estates of the said 

 Henry Lord Arundel which are vested in the said trustees unto Humphrey Weld 

 esq. Walter Barnes and William Hurman gent and their heirs ; and to deliver up 

 and release unto the said persons afore-named, having purchased the premises, 

 all such grants and securities as have been given by them to the said trustees 

 for sale of delinquents' lands for or towards the second moieties of any part of 

 the said estate in such and the same sort as if the whole purchase money con- 

 tracted and due for the same had been paid and satisfied to the use of the 

 Commonwealth. 



" Henet Scobell, 



"Passed, 11 April 1654. » Clerk of the Council." 



The Hon. William Arundel, of Horningsham, second son of 

 Thomas, the first Lord Arundel of Wardour. 



So far back as the winter of 1640-41, William Arundel and the 

 Lady Mary St. John, his wife, then in London, had addressed a 

 petition to the Lords, setting forth that at the recent sessions in 

 the County of Wilts they had both been indicted for recusancy 

 (Romanism) ; whereunto if they failed to appear personally at the 

 next sessions they would be convicted unless the same were removed 

 by certiorari. And forasmuch as their place of appearance was 

 distant from London eighty miles, and the said William Arundel 

 being a man of weak and infirm body was unable to perform so 

 long a journey without imminent danger, and for divers other 

 causes expressed in the petition ; therefore they prayed that a certiorari 

 might be allowed, to remove the said indictment out of Wiltshire 

 into the King's Bench. To which the Lords assented. Various 

 other petitions of his are extant, their general tenour being that in 

 consequence of a deposition made in his favour by the Wilts Com- 

 mittee in 1650 his estates were sequestrable as those of a papist 

 only, and not of a delinquent. Two-thirds of his estate in Wilts, 

 which county he observes was his constant residence, were now 

 sequestered, but this was for recusancy only. He was never a 



