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ARUNDEL COMPLETE PEERAGE 255 where he was detained till his death, and fined ;^ 10,000. He was attainted 14 Apr. 1589 on a charge of high treason, when all his honours became /or- feited. He w., in 1571, at "the age of 12 years complete," and again, " about 2 years after that, when he was at years of full consent, that is after 14 complete, " Anne, one of the children of his stepmother, Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, being ist of the three sisters (") and coheirs of George, Lord Dacre of Gillesland, and da. of Thomas (Dacre), Lord Dacre of Gillesland, by Elizabeth (the abovenamed Duchess) da. of Sir Francis Leyburn. He d.^ as afsd., 19 Nov. 1595, aged 38, after nearly eleven years of imprisonment, (") (being by some supposed to have been poisoned) and was bur. in the chapel of the Tower of London, but removed thence, in 1624, to West Horsley, Surrey, the seat of the widow, and finally to Arundel. His widow, who was b. 21 Mar. 1557, at Carlisle, and who brought her husband the estate of Greystock, d. 19 Apr. 1630, at Shifnal Manor, Salop, in her 74th year, and was bur. at Arundel. Will pr. 4 July 1630. XXVL 1604. 21 ot 14. Thomas Howard, only s. and h., b. 7 July 1585, at Finchingfield, Essex. Ed. at Westm. School, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge. By Act of Pari. 18 Apr. (1604) 2 Jac. I, he was restored in blood, and to the titles of Earl of Arundel and Earl of Surrey, and to such honours as his father had enjoyed, and such Baronies as had been possessed by his grandfather, the attainted Duke of Norfolk. Many of the estates, however, were in the hands of other members of the family. Joint Lord Lieut, of Sussex 26 Aug. 1608 ; Lord Lieut, of Norfolk 18 Apr. 161 5 ; and joint Lord Lieut, of Northumberland, West- morland, and Cumberland 20 May 1633. El. K.G. 24 Apr. and inst. 13 May 161 1. On 14 Feb. 16 13, he carried the sword of state at the marriage of Elizabeth, da. of James I, soon after which he went to Italy, and began acquiring the celebrated collection known as " the Arundel Marbles," (^c. (") On 25 Dec. 161 5, he publicly professed the Protestant C) The two other sisters and coheirs m. his two brothers of the half blood. One of these d. s.p., and the other brought the estate of Naworth to her husband, Lord William Howard, by whom she was ancestress to the Earls of Carlisle. (*") During his long imprisonment, which he spent in devotional and ascetic exercises, he was treated with great hardship, and, even when dying, Elizabeth cruelly refused him permission to see his wife and children unless he would abandon the Roman Communion. His funeral cost his frugal sovereign £2. Lloyd (1665) calls him " as good an Englishman in his heart, as he was a Catholick in his conscience." V.G. (') At Evelyn's request, the Earl's grandson, Henry Howard " of Norfolk " (afterwards Duke of Norfolk) gave (i) to the University of Oxford " those celebrated and famous inscriptions, Greek and Latine .... whatever I found had inscriptions on them that were not statues ; " and (2) to the Royal Society the Earl's library and such MSS. as were not reserved for the College of Arms ; of this a catalogue was printed in 1681, entitled Bibliotheca Norfokiana. The Duke also gave (3) to the College of Arms (of which, as Earl Marshal, he was head) all MSS. relating to Genealogy and kindred subjects, including what are known as The Shrewsbury MSS,