John Arundell (Member of the Long Parliament)
John Arundell of Trerice (ca. 1625 - 1701) was a Cornish Member of Parliament, ejected from the Long Parliament for his Royalist sympathies during the English Civil War.
Arundell was the second son of Sir John Arundell of Trerice, head of one of Cornwall's leading families and a member of most of the Parliaments between 1597 and 1640. He was elected member for Bodmin in the Long Parliament and was one of those who voted against the attainder of Strafford. In January 1644 he was disabled from sitting "for deserting the service of the house, being in the king's quarters, and adhering that party", as also was his elder brother (who was Member for Lostwithiel).
John Arundell fought gallantly for King Charles in the Cornish campaign, which he joined in 1644, and continued to live at Lanherne until his death in 1701.
References
- Brunton, D. & Pennington, D. H. (1954) Members of the Long Parliament. London: George Allen & Unwin
- Cobbett, William (1808) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803. London: Thomas Hansard
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