Lady Blanche Arundell (nee Somerset) 1583 to 1649. On 2 May 1643, during the absence of her husband she defended Wardour Castle

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Lady Blanche Arundell (nee Somerset) 1583 to 1649. On 2 May 1643, during the absence of her husband she defended Wardour Castle for nine days with only herself, her children, a few maid-servants, and twenty-five men against the Parliamentary forces of thirteen hundred men.

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