Thomas Arundell, the younger son of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, in 1541 acquired the (previously monastic) manors of Tisbury and Donhead. Ten years later he was executed as a supporter of the Protector Duke of Somerset, and his lands were forfeited. Wardour Castle was reacquired by the Arundells in 1571. The family seems to have conformed officially (and, arguably, pragmatically) to the Established Church during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Thomas Arundell, recently made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, was created the 1st Lord Arundell of Wardour by James I in 1605. The Arundells became publicly Catholic again after the latter’s death in 1639, and remained true to the Faith thereafter.