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little ufe was there of the inventory we told you of, unless to let the world know what "Lord Arundell loft, and what the Rebels gained. "This havock they made within the castle. "Without they burnt all the out-houses; they

pulled up the pales of two parks, the one of "red deer, the other of fallow; what they did "not kill they let loose to the world for the next "taker. In the parks they burn three tenements " and two lodges; they cut down all the trees "about the house and grounds. Oaks and elms, "fuch as but few places could boast of the like, "whose goodly bushy advanced heads drew the

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eyes of travellers on the plains to gaze on "them; these they fold for four-pence, fixpence, " or twelve-pence a-piece, that were worth three, "four, or five pounds a-piece. The fruit-trees "they pluck up by the roots, extending their "malice to commit fpoil on that which God; by

a special law, protected from destruction even " in the land of his curfe, the land of Canaan; "for fo we read: When thou shalt befiege a city, "thou shalt not deftroy the trees thereof by forcing "an ax against them, for thou mayeft eat of them, " and thou shalt not cut them down and employ "them in the fiege; only the trees which thou "knowest that they be not trees for meat thou shalt destroy. Deut. xx. 19, 20. Nay, that which * escaped destruction in the Deluge cannot escape

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"the hands of these Children of the Apollyon "the Destroyer. They dig up the heads of "twelve great ponds, fome of five or fix acres "a-piece, and destroy all the fifh. They fell <6 carps of two foot long for two-pence and threepence a-piece they fent out the fish by cart"loads, fo that the country could not spend "them. Nay, as if the prefent generation were "too narrow an object for their rage, they plun"der pofterity, and destroy the nurseries of the હ્રદ great ponds. They drive away and fell their

horfes, kine, and other cattle, and having left "nothing either in air or water, they dig under "the earth. The caftle was ferved with water

brought two miles by a conduit of lead; and "intending rather mischief to the King's friends "than profit to themfelves, they cut up the pipe "and fold it (as these men's wives in North "Wiltshire do bone-lace) at fixpence a yard;

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making that wafte for a poor inconfiderable "fum which two thousand pounds will not make good. They that. have the unhappy occafion "to fum up these loffes, value them at no lefs "than one hundred thousand pounds. And

though this lofs were very great, not to be "paralleled by any except that of the Countess " of Rivers, yet there was fomething in these fufferings which did aggravate them beyond "all example of barbarity which unnatural war

till now did produce, and that was Rachel's "tears, lamentation and weeping and great mourn"ing, a mother weeping for her children, and "would not be comforted, because they were taken "from her. For the rebels, as you hear, having "carried the two Ladies prifoners to Shaftesbury,

thinking them not fafe enough, their intent is "to remove them to Bath, a place then much "infected both with the plague and the small

pox. The old Lady was fick under a double "confinement, that of the Rebels and her own

indifpofition. All were unwilling to be ex

pofed to the danger of the infection, especially "the young Lady, having three children with "her; they were too dear, too rich a treasure "to be fnatched away to fuch probable lofs "without reluctancy; therefore they refolve not "to yield themselves prisoners unless they will "take the old Lady out of her bed, and the reft by violence, and fo carry them away. But "the Rebels fearing left fo great inhumanity

might incense the people against them, and "render them odious to the country, decline "this; and, fince they dare not carry all to "Bath, they refolve to carry fome to Dor"chester, a place no lefs dangerous for the in"fection of schism and rebellion than Bath for "the plague and the fmall-pox. To this pur

"(the eldest but nine, the younger but feven ઠંડ years of age,) and carried them captives to "Dorchester.

"In vain doth the mother with tears intreat "that these pretty pledges of her Lord's affec"tions may not be fnatched from her. In "vain do the children embrace and hang about

the neck of their mother, and implore help "from her, that neither knows how to keep "them, nor yet how to part with them: but "the Rebels, having loft all bowels of compaf"fion, remain inexorable. The complaints of "the mother, the pitiful cry of the children, prevail not with them: like ravenous wolves they feize on the prey, and though they do "not crop, yet they tranfplant those olive "branches that ftood about their parents' "table."

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Lady Arundell is buried with her Lord, near the altar of the very elegant chapel at Wardour Castle, built by the present Lord Arundell. The infcription on their monument is as follows:

"To the Memory of the Right Honourable "Thomas Lord Arundell, fecond Baron of "Wardour, and Count of the facred Roman Empire; who died at Oxford of the wounds "he received at the battle of Lanfdown, in the " fervice

fervice of King Charles the First, for whom "he raised a regiment of horfe at his own ex"pence at the time of the Ufurpation.

"Obiit 19th Maii 1643. Etat. 59.

"And of the Right Honourable Blanch Lady "Arundell, his wife, daughter of Edward So"merset, Earl of Worcester, Lord Keeper of "the Privy-feal, Mafter of Horfe, and Knight "of the most noble order of the Garter, ancef"tor to the Duke of Beaufort, lineally defcend"ed from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, "fon of King Edward the Third. This Lady, "as diftinguished for her courage as for the ❝ fplendor of her birth, in the absence of her "husband bravely defended the Caftle of War"dour, with a courage above her sex, for nine "days, with a few men, against Sir Edward,

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Hungerford and Edmund Ludlow and their 6c army, and then delivered it up on honourable Obiit 28th Octobr. 1649. Etat. 66,

❝ terms.

"Who fhall find a valiant woman! The price "of of her is as things brought from afar off, and from the uttermoft coafts. The heart of her "husband trusteth in her. Prov. xxxi.

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"Our God was our refuge and ftrength; the "Lord of Armies was with us, the God of Jacob was our Protector. Pfalm xlvi."