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1, Eliz. married to Sir Thomas Bullen, afterwards Viscount Rochford, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, by whom she was mother of Queen Anne Bullen, who had by Hen. VIII. her husband, Elizabeth Queen of England.

2, Muriel, who first married John Grey, Viscount Lisle, by whom she had Eliz. wife of Henry Courtney, and secondly, to Sir Thomas Knevet, Knt. and had issue Sir Hen. Knevet.

The aforesaid Duke's second wife was Agnes, daughter of Hugh Tilney Esq. sister and heiress to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Lincolnshire, Knt. and had issue by her,

1. William, afterwards created Baron Howard of Effingham, of whose descendants more will occur hereafter.

2. Sir Thomas, who marrying the Lady Margaret Douglass, daughter to Margaret Queen of Scots, niece to King Henry, was attainted of treason, on some suspicion of his aspiring to the crown, and died in the Tower of London.

3. Ric. who died Mar. 27, 1517, and was buried at Lambeth, with two other of his brothers who died infants, and four daughters.

1, Anne, the eldest, married to John Vere Earl of Oxford, but left no issue by him.

2, Dorothy, to Edw. Stanley Earl of Derby.

3, Eliz. to Hen Ratcliff of Sussex.

4, Katherine, married first to Sir Rhese ap Thomas, and after, to Hen. Daubeny Earl of Bridgewater.

13. THOMAS Earl of Surrey, eldest son to the last mentioned Duke, succeeded him in his honours; in his father's lifetime, he commanded a ship under his brother Edward, who was then lord admiral, when the famous pirate Sir Andrew Barton was taken in 1512. He accompanied the Marquis of Dorset into Spain, in aid of King Ferdinand, against the French; and the said Marquis falling sick, he had the command of the English army. In 1513, upon the death of the Lord Edward his brother, being then Knight of the Garter, he was constituted lord admiral in his stead, and so scoured the seas, that not a French fisher-boat durst be seen; and landing in Whitsand bay, he