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of thofe times in which it was written ; and which,- in the 
narrative of the behaviour ot the parliamentary generals, 
w ill recall perhaps to the mind of the reader the 1'c.enes of 
ravage, deiolation, and murder, which have taken place 
in a neighbouring nation. “ On Tue/day, May 2, 1C43, 
Sir Edward Hungerford, a cliief commander of the rebels 
in Wiltlhire, came with his forces before Wardour-cadle 
in the fame county, being the manfion-houfe of the lord 
Arundel of Wardour. But finding the caltle llrong, and 
thofe that were in it refolute not to yield it up tmlefs by 
force, called colonel Strode to his help. Both thefe joined 
in one made a body of 1300, or thereabout. Being come 
before it, by a trumpet they fummon the caftle to lurren- 
der: tiie reafon pretended was, becaufe, the caftle being 
a receptacle of cavaliers and malignants, both houfes of 
parliament had ordered it to be lea relied for men and 
arms 5 and withal by the fame trumpeter declared, that, if 
they found either money or plate, they would feize on it 
for the life of the parliament. The lady Arundel (her 
hufband being then at Oxford, and (ince that dead there) 
jrefuled to deliver up the caftle; and bravely replied, that 
file had a command from her lord to keep it, and fhe would 
obey his command. Being denied entrance, the next day 
alley bring up the cannon within niufquet-fhot, and be¬ 
gin the battery, and continue from the Wednefday to the 
Monday following, never giving any intermiflion to the 
befieged, who were but twenty-five fighting men, to make 
good the place againft an army of 1300 men. In this time 
they fpring two mines ; the fil’d in a vault, through which 
beer and wood and other neceffaries were brought into the 
callle; this did not much hurt, it being without the foun¬ 
dation of the callle. The fecond was conveyed in the 
fmall vaults ; which, by reafon of the intercourfe between 
the feveral palTages to every office, and almoft every room 
in the caftle, did much ffiake and endanger the whole fa¬ 
bric. The rebels had often tendered fome unreafonable 
conditions to the befieged to lurrender; as to give the la¬ 
dies, both the mother and the daughter-in-law, and the 
women and children, quarter, but not the men. The la¬ 
dies, both infinitely fcorning to facrifice the lives of their 
friends and fervants to redeem their own from the cruelty 
of the rebels, who had no other crime of which they 
could count them guilty but their fidelity and earned: en¬ 
deavours to preferve them from violence and robbery, 
choofe bravely (according to the noblcnefs of their fami¬ 
lies from which they were both extracted) rather to die 
together than live on fo diffionourable terms. But now, 
the caltle brought to this didrefs, the defendants few, op- 
preffed with number, tired out with continual watching 
and labour from Tuefday to Monday ; now, when the re¬ 
bels had brought petarrs, and applied them to the garden- 
doors, and balls of wild-fire to throw in at their broken 
windows, and all hopes of keeping the caltle were taken 
away ; now, and not till now, did the befieged found a 
parley. The articles of furrender werethefe: That the 
ladies and all others in the cadle fiiould have quarter. 
That the ladies and fervants ffiould carry away all their 
wearing-apparel ; and that fix of the ferving-men, whom 
the ladies ffiould nominate, fiiould attend upon their per- 
fons wherefoever the rebels ffiould difpofe of them. That 
all the furniture and goods in the houfe ffiould be fafe 
from plunder, and to this purpofe one of the lix nomina¬ 
ted to attend the ladies was to Hay in the callle, and take 
an inventory of all in the houfe; of which the command¬ 
ers were to have one copy, and the ladies another. But, 
being on thefe terms mailers of the callle and all within 
it, ’tis true they obferved the firlt article, and fpared the 
lives of all the befieged, though they had flain in the 
defence at lead lixty of the rebels. But for the other 
two they obferved them not in any pait. As foon as they 
entered the callle, they firlt feized upon the feveral trunks 
and packs which they of the caftle were making up, and 
left neither the ladies nor fervants any other wearing- 
clothes but what was on their backs. There was in the 
callle, among!! many rich ones, one extraordinary chimney- 
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piece, valued at two thoufand pounds ; this they utterly 
defaced, and beat down all the carved works thereof w ith 
their pole-axes. There were likewife rare pictures, the 
work of the mod curious pencils that were known to thefe 
latter times of the world, and fitch that Apelles himfelf 
(had he been alive) need not blulh to own for his. Thefe 
in a wild fury they break and tear to pieces ; a lofs that 
neither coll nor art can repair. Having thus given them 
a fade what performance of articles they were to expedfc 
from them, they barbaroully lead the ladies, and the young 
lady’s children, two forts and a daughter, priToners to 
Shaftelbury, fome four or five miles from Wardour. 
While they were prifoners, to mitigate their forrows, in 
triumph they bring five cart-loads of their riched hang¬ 
ings and other furniture through Shaftelbury towards 
Dorchedcr; and dnee that, they plundered lire whole 
callle : fo little ufe was there of the inventory we told you 
of, unlefs to let the world know what lord Arundel lod, 
and what the rebels gained. This liavock they made with¬ 
in the cadle. Without they burnt all the out-houfes; they 
pulled up the pales of two parks, the one of red deer, the 
other of fallow ■ what they did not kill they let loofe tt> 
the world for the next taker. In the parks they burn 
three tenements and two lodges ; they cut down all the 
trees about the houfe and grounds; they dig up the heads 
of twelve great ponds, fome of five or lix acres a-piece, 
and dedroy all the fiffi. They drive away and fell their 
horfes, kine, and other cattle; and, having left nothing ei¬ 
ther in air or water, they dig under the earth. The cadle 
was ferved with water brought two miles by a conduit of 
lead ; and, intending rather mifehief to the king’s friends 
than profit to themfelves, they cut up the pipe and fold it 
(as thefe men’s wives in North Wiltfiiire do bone-lace) at 
fix-pence a-yard ; making that wade for a poor inconlide- 
rable fum which two thoufand pounds will not make good. 
Lady Arundel died Off. 28, 1649, aged fixty-fix ; and is 
buried with her lord, near the altar of the very elegant cha¬ 
pel at Wardour-cadle, built by the prefent lord Arundel. 
Arundel Oil, in the materia medical At Bombay, 
Gambroon, and Surat, in the Ead Indies, there grows a 
tree which bears a nut inclofed in a rough hulk, which 
refembles much the horfe-chefnut; and the kernel of the 
nut yields an oil by expreffion, which is of a purgative na¬ 
ture. A tea-fpoonful of it is reckoned a dole* The tree 
goes by the name of the Arundel tree at Bombay, and its 
oil by that of the Arundel oil. Mr. Sinclair, one of the 
furgeons belongingto the royal regiment of artillery, who 
was formerly furgeon to an Ead-Indta drip, gave Dr. 
Monro of London a final! bottle full of this oil, which he 
laid was much ufed for the cure of the dyfentery in India, 
and that he had given it in four recent cafes of dyfentery 
with iliccefs. Dr. Monro thinks it probable that this is 
the oil of the purging nuts mentioned in Dale’s Pharma - 
coiogia, which are got from the tree called lignum molut- 
cenje , pavana ditium, fruElu avellana , J. B. 1. 342 ; and pinus 
Indica , nucleo purgante. C. B. 492; and the paima Chrijii In* - 
dica, Tournefort Mat. Med. 
ARUNDE'LIAN MARBLES, Oxford Marbles, 
or Parian Chronicle, are tables of marble, whereon ■ 
is inferibed a chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved.irt 
the idand of Paros, one of the Cyclades, 264 years before • 
the birth of Chrid. They take their firfi name from 
Thomas earl of Arundel, who procured them out of the 
Ead; or from Henry his grandfon, who prefented them 
to the univerfity of Oxford. The Arnndelian marbles, in 
their perfect date, contained a chronological detail of the 
principal events of Greece during a period of 1318 years, 
beginning with Cecrops, before Chrid 1582 years, and end¬ 
ing with the archonflrip of Diognetus, before Chrid 264. 
But the chronicle of tlie lad ninety years is loll; lo that 
the part now remaining ends at the archonflrip of Dioti- 
nms, 354 years before the birth of Chrid; and in this 
fragment the inlcription is at prefent fo much corroded 
and effaced, that the fenfe can only be fupplied by conjec¬ 
ture. (This chronicle, and many other relics of antiquity, 
3 R were.. 
