WARDER, (Wiltshire) or WARDOUR-CASTLE, on the S. side of Hindon, 2 m. N. E. from Shaftsbury, bel. in the R. of Edward III.
to the ancient family of St. Martin, and passed through the families of Lds. Lovell, Touchet Ld. Audley, and the
Willoughbys of Brooke, to Sir John Arundel, ancestor of the Lord Arundel of Wardour. In the civil wars, Blanch, daughter
of Edward Earl of Worcester, the relict of Thomas Ld. Arundel, who died in the garrison at Oxford, attending K. Charles I.
held out this castle with only 25 men, against the Pt. army of 1300, and surrendered at last on honourable terms, but, in
violation of them, she and her children were imprisoned, and her house and parks damaged to the value of 25,000 l. The
father of Sir Nich. Hyde, who was Ld. treasurer in the R. of Charles I. had a long lease of the castle from the Arundel
family, in right of his wife. The present Ld. Arundel has a seat here.