Thomas Arun Dell Arundell of Wardour

ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR, THOMAS ARUN DELL, 1ST BARON (c. 1562-1639), son of Sir Mathew Arundell of Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, served with great distinction as a soldier of fortune under the Emperor Rudolf II. against the Turks, and was created a count of the Holy Roman Empire. His assumption of a foreign title was strongly resented by Eliza beth, who sent him to the Fleet Prison on his arrival in England in 1596. He was soon released, but next year was again im prisoned for a short time on another charge. James I. gave him his English peerage in 1605, but he repeatedly fell under suspi cion on account of his Catholic faith under James I. and Charles I. He died on Nov. 7 1639. Arundell was a devout Catholic, but the accusations of disloyalty made against him appear to have been unfounded.

Henry Arundell,

3RD BARON (c. 1607-94), grandson of the preceding, succeeded in 1643. He fought on the Cavalier side in the Civil War, and at the Restoration the family estates were restored to him, and he became an officer of the Queen's house hold. He was employed by Charles II. in negotiating the Treaty of Dover. Denounced by Titus Oates as a participator in the "Popish Plot," Arundell, with four other Roman Catholic peers, was impeached and imprisoned. He was released in Feb. 1684. After the accession of James II., the charge was annulled, and Arundell was for a time keeper of the privy seal. He died Dec. 28, 1694, leaving a reputation for piety and of benevolence to his co-religionists.