48o ANNUAL REGISTER, 1758.
was to found a convent! Rapm
HENRYHowARoEarlof Surry, fays, he apprehended if the popifh
party fhould prevail, that his mar--
«* We now emerge from the riage with Catherine of Arragon
twilight of learning to an almoll would be declared good, and by
claffic author, that ornament of a confequence his fon Edward baf-
bolfterous, yet not unpolilhed court, tardized. ■ A moft inaccurate
the Earl of Surry, celebrated by conclufion I It would have affeiXcd
Drayton, Drydcn, Fenton, and the legitimacy of Elizabeth, whole
Pope, illudrated by his own mufe, mother was married during the life
and lamented for his unhappy and of Catherine, but the latter was
unmerited death : • a man,' as Sir dead before the king married Jane
Walter Raleigh fays, • no lefs va- Seymour: An odd circumftance is
' liant than learned, and of excel- recorded, that Boleyn wore yel-
• lent hopes.' low for mourning for her pre-
He was fon and grandfon of deceflbr.
two lord treafurers, dukes of It feems that the family of
Norfolk, and fecmed to have pro- Howard were greatly at variance ;
mife of fortune as illuRrious, by the duke and his fon had been
being the friend, and at length but lately reconciled ; the duchefi
the brother-in-law of the Duke of was frantic with jealoufy, had beea
Richmond, Henry's natural fon. parted four years from her hulband,
,. But the cement of that and now turned his accufer ; as
union proved the bane of her bro- her daughter the duchefs of Rich- iherl He fhone in all the accom- mond, who inclined to the Protell- plilhments of that martial age ; his ants, and hated her brother, de- name is renowned in its tourna- pofed againft him. The duke's nients, and in his father's battles : millrefs too, one Mrs. Holland, In an expedition of his own he took care to provide for her own was unfortunate, being defeated fafety, by telling all (he knew, endeavouring to cut off a convoy That was little, yet equal to the to Boulogne: a difgrace he foon charge, and coincided with it. repaired, though he never recover- The chief accufatioti againft the ed the king's favour, in whofe eyes earl was his quartering the arms a moment would cancel an age of of Edward the Confeffor : The ferviccs ! "" duke had foreborne them, hut left
The un-.veildy king growing a blank quarter. Mrs. Holland
dillempered and t"roward, and ap- depofcd, that the duke difapproved
prehenVive for the tranquillity of his his fon's bearing them, and for-
boy-fucceffor, eafiiy conceived or bad her to work them en the
admitted jealoufjes infufed into furniture of his houfe. The Du-
him by the earl of Hertford and chefs of Richmond's teHimony was
the Proteftant party, though one fo trifling, that fhe dcpofed her
of the lail ads of his fickle life, brother's giving a coronet •, which
- This fliews that at that time there was no eftabliflied rule for coronets. I
cannot find when thofe of Dvikes, MarquKfes and Earls were fettled : Sir Robert Cecil Earl of Salifbury, when vifcount Cranborn, was the firft of that degree that bore a coronet. Barons received theirs from Charles the Second.
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