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wife, the Lady St. John. His daughter, Mary, became the wife of 

 Sir Henry Tichborne, Bart. 



Iu March, 1655, a petition was presented in behalf of Charles 

 Arundel, an infant, by John Talbot, his guardian, to allow his title 

 to certain lands, parcel of the manor of Hanley, in Dorset, coming 

 to him as heir of his father, Charles Arundel, deceased (son of 

 William, of Horningsham), but now sequestered for the delinquency 

 of the occupant, Henry Butler, who hath no right or title thereunto. 

 Here the legal ownership was the point in dispute. It was shewn 

 that Thomas, Lord Arundel, in 1632, for one thousand pounds 

 granted the portion now claimed by Butler to Thomas Shergoll, of 

 Ebbesbourn, in Wilts, for ninety-nine years, if either of ShergolFs 

 three sons, William, Thomas, and Robert, should so long live, 

 rendering £20 a year. Robert, the last survivor of the race, fell at 

 Edgehill, as ensign to Captain Loftus, in Colonel Essex's Regiment ; 

 but Butler, who held the estate under Shergoll, continued in pos- 

 session, pretending belief that Robert was yet alive, though no one 

 had ever seen him since the Battle of Edgehill, in 1642. As for 

 the entire manor of Hanley, this, with some adjacent lands, had in 

 1637 been demised by Thomas Lord Arundel, to Sir Thomas 

 Reynell, Kt., Henry Sandys, and William Sandys, Esquires, for 

 the use of himself during life, and after that to the payment of 

 debts and of portions to Frances Countess of Shrewsbury, Margaret 

 Lady Fortescue, and Clara wife of Humphrey Weld, the residue to 

 be assigned as Lord Arundel should in his will direct. Now, the 

 portions to the Ladies Clara and Margaret being paid, and Lord 

 Arundel having by deed directed other portions to be given to the 

 Lady Anne, wife of Cecil Lord Baltimore, Mary Lady Somerset, 

 and Katharine Ewer, others of his daughters, and appointed that 

 when all was paid the lands should be conveyed to William Arundel 

 his second son, and to his heirs male, they came eventually to be 

 claimed, as above shown, by Charles the grandson of this William. 

 Lord Arundell had died in 1637, only two years after making the 

 above disposition, upon which Sir Thomas Reynell and his co-trustees 

 entered upon the manor, kept courts there, and took the rents and 

 profits, among others £20 from Butler himself; and on the death 



