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252 COMPLETE PEERAGE arundel (Radclyffe), Earl of Sussex, da. of Sir John Arundell, of Lanherne, Cornwall, by his 2nd wife, Katharine, da. of Sir Thomas Grenville, of Stow, Devon. By her he had no issue. She d. at Arundel House, Strand, 20, and was bur. 28 Oct. 1557, at St. Clement Danes, but afterwards removed to Arundel. (*) The Earl d. at the same place, s.p.m.s., 24 Feb. 1579/80, C) and was bur. at Arundel, aged 67.0 M.I. C) Will dat. 30 Dec. 1579, pr. 27 Feb. 1579/80. [Henry Fitz Alan, styled Lord Mautravers, only s. and h. ap. by 1st wife, b. in 1538. Knighted as a K.B., being 5th in order of the 40 knights so cr. at the coronation of Edward VI, Q 20 Feb. 1546/7. Matric. Cambridge (Queens' Coll.) May 1549. Hew. (Lie. 12 Apr. 1555) Ann, widow of Sir Hugh Rich, 3rd da. and coh. of Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield, Essex. Being sent Ambassador to the King of Bohemia, he caught a fever, and d. s.p. and v.p., 30 June 1556, at Brussels, and was bur. in the Cathedral there, aged 18. His widow »?., between 1573 and 1580, William Deane. She was bur. 10 Jan. i 580/1, at Gosfield afsd., as "Ann, Lady Maltravers, uxor William Deane Esq. " In her will dat. 26 Mar. 1573, she styles herself 'late wife of the Rt. Hon. Henry Earl of Arundel' and bequeaths her residue to " my servant " William Deane, who pr. the said will 15 Feb. 1580/1. He, who, in 1571, bought Dynes Hall, Great Maplestead, Essex, m., 2ndly, Anne, widow of George Blythe, cleric to the Council of York, and da. of Thomas Egerton, and had issue, and ^.4 Oct. 1585.(0] XXV. 1580 20 or 13. Philip (Howard), Earl of Arundel, for- to merly styled Earl of Surrey, (^) grandson ^ h., being s. 1589. and h. of Thomas, (xth) 4th Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey, £s?c. (who was attainted 16 Jan. and beheaded C) Here her coffin was found in the 19th century with her death date thereon, as in the text. She was " A noted scholar, she translated the wise sayings and antient actions of the Emperor Severus. " Many of her MSS. are in the Royal Library. C*) Arthur Counter of Racton in his confession (Hatfield MS. 797) evidently speaks of him as the White Horse (the Fitzalan badge). In an injudicious convers- ation Counter had said (the spelling being modernized) " I trust the White Horse will be in quiet ; .... it is well known his blood as yet was never attaint, nor was he ever a man of war, wherefore it is like that we shall sit still ; but if he should stomach it, he were able to make a great power. " {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. C') The Earls of Arundel of the house of Aubigny bore arms as early as the twelfth century, the seal of Earl William showing the rampant lion about 1 1 80. The earls of the Fitzalan line bore the golden lion on a field of gules, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. C) By his death the male line of Fitz Alan, Earls oi Arundel, owners of the Castle of Arundel for upwards of 300 years, became extinct. See tabular pedigree illustrating their descent on next page. (") See note as to these lub Henry, Earl of Derby [1572]. (') See Essex Arch. Soc. Publications, N. S., vol. iii. (") Pre-eminence or the Earldom of Arundel over the Earldom of Surrey. In the settlement made by Henry (Fitz Alan), Earl of Arundel, of the Earldom