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delinquent to the Parliament, nor so adjudged by any committee ; 

 nevertheless, from some mistake in the duplicate of a rental (sic) 

 from the late committee of London, where he was altogether un- 

 known, certain houses on Tower Hill were described as sequestered 

 as the estate of William Arundel, a delinquent, which occasioned 

 the petitioner's name to be returned as a papist-delinquent, and his 

 estate to be put into the bill of sale, to the ruin of the petitioner and 

 his posterity, if not speedily relieved by the interference of the new 

 commissioners. Endorsed thus : — " It appearing that he is seques- 

 tered for delinquency, the committee can do nothing in it." His 

 fine was set at £333 6s. 8d., from which it may be interred that the 

 estates were not sold. 



In proof of William Arundel's delinquency it was stated that he 

 had been a colonel in the King's army, a report which the Wilts 

 Committee appear to have discredited. Neither did they deem 

 sundry depositions which were made with the same object at Devizes 

 in 1650 sufficient evidence of active personal hostility to the Parlia- 

 ment. Those depositions were as follows : — 



"John Oliver, of Horningsham, yeoman, saith : — that in the time of the late 

 war, Mr. Arundel kept a garrison in his house at Woodhouse, and did send 

 letters to and inform the King's Commissioners against this deponent, declaring 

 that he was a Roundhead ; and he took a warrant from the tythingman of 

 Horningsham, sent by the King's party, and conveyed the same to Sir Edward 

 Hungerford. Moreover he enforced this deponent to pay unto him, Mr. Arundel, 

 and to his son, ten quarters of oats and £3 10s. in money ; and did several 

 times use this deponent very inhumanely for his affection to the Parliament." 



" Richard Millard, of Horningsham, saith : — that Mr. Arundel rode armed 

 with his sword and pistols to Oxford, then a King's garrison, and carried with 

 him six horses, and this deponent, armed likewise with a carabine, rode with 

 him as his servant from Woodhouse to Oxford, although Mr. Arundel had 

 promised to go to Sir Edward Hungerford with the said horses. And Mr. 

 Arundel was at the garrison of Bristol at the time when Major Wansey with his 

 forces came to Woodhouse." 



"John King, of Horningsham, saith: — that he being a weaver and servant 

 to Mr. Beard, a clothier, Mr. Arundel came to his house at nine or ten at night, 

 and, with a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other, asked what rebel rogues 

 he kept in his house, threatening that if he would not deliver up the rebel Beard 

 he would lay him the deponent in gaol for three months, and afterwards deliver 

 him up. He then demanded a green-grey cloth of Mr. Beard's, or stuff to make 

 it ; and this he did because Beard was well affected to the Parliament. This 



