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ARUNDELL COMPLETE PEERAGE 263 at Thornbury, co. Gloucester, aged 70. M.I. Will dat. 28 Jan. 1739, proved 14 July 1744. IV. 1706 4 John (Arundell), Baron Arundell of Trerice, to only surv. s. and h., b. 21 Nov. 1701. Ed. at Balliol 1768. Coll. Oxford. In politics he was a Tory. He »?., 2 June 1722, at Hounslow, (*) (Lie. Lond., i June 1722, to m. at St. James's, Westm., he 20, and she 25 [sic, sed rectius 41]) Elizabeth, "almost old enough to be his mother, " (") sister of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, da. of Sir William Wentworth, of Ashby, co. Lincoln, by Isabella, da. of Sir Allen Apsley. She d. 21 Mar. 1750, aged 69, and was bur. at Sturminster Marshall, Dorset. M.I. He d. s.p., aged 66, and was bur. 13 Aug. 1768, with his wife, when the title became extinct. Family estates. — These, after the death of the last Peer, went, according to the entail in his mar. settl., to William Wentworth, the nephew of his wife, whence, by re-settlement, they passed to Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart. ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR BARONY. I. Thomas Arundell, (") of Wardour Castle, Wilts, ■, (■ s. and h. of Sir Matthew A., of the same, by Margaret, ^' da. of Sir Henry Willoughby, of WoUaton, Notts., was b. about 1560. He was imprisoned in the summer of [580 for his zeal in the cause of his communion. He subscribed /!ioo towards repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588. He was known as ' the Valiant,' and served in 1588 with the Imperialists, against the Turks, and, having taken a standard from the enemy at Gran, in Hungary, was cr. by the Emperor Rudolph II, on 14 Dec. 1595 (by patent dat. at Prague), a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. (") Any precedence, however, as such, in England was never acknowledged by Queen Elizabeth, though the title was recognised by her successor. In Dec. 1598, being then a knight, and aged 36, he sue. his father, and on 4 May 1605, () was cr. BARON ARUNDELL OF WARDOUR, (^ Wilts. He w., istly (lie. Lond. (') dat. 18, and settl. dated 19 June 1585) Mary, da. of Henry (Wriothes- (') Hearne's Collections. V.G. C") The family of Arundell is one of the five {viz.. Arundell, Fermor, Hunloke, Petre, and Phelips) contained in the Roman Catholic Families of England, based on the Lawson, AISS., a magnificent work edited by J.J.Howard. C^) This patent is duly recorded in the College of Arms, London. (*) For a list of the seven peers cr. on this day, see note sub Thomas, Earl of Exeter [1605]. (*) The Lords Arundell of Wardour, cadets of the house of Lanherne, bear the whole coat of that house, which is Sable with six swallows silver — the hirondelles playing upon the name of Arundell. [ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. f) " i8 June 1585. Sir Matthew [«V] Arundle Kt. to m. Mary Wrisley [j/V] da. of Henry, late Earl of Southampton, at the chapel in St. Andrew's, Holborn.