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Here he lay above four years before he was brought to his trial, which came on April 18, 1589, and of which the particulars are preserved in the collection of State Trials. Though condemned to die, he never felt the edge of the axe, but was reprieved from time to time till his death in the Tower, October 19, Collins says November 19, 1595, and aged about forty years; thus compensating, as it were, by a close confinement for ten years, the fatal stroke that had been undergone by his father, grand-father, and great-grandfather.

Dod says, that as to his person he was very tall, of a swarthy complexion, with an agreeable mixture of sweetness and grandeur in his countenance, adding, that he had a soul superior to all human considerations. His son Thomas, whom he had by Anne, sister of George, lord Dacres of Gisland, a co-heir, by whom the Howard family had a considerable accession of property, inherited the honours of this illustrious house, and died at Padua in the year 1646.

With regard to the title of earl of Arundel, taken by this Philip, eldest son of Thomas, duke of Norfolk, the following passage from Collins's Peerage affords a very ample explanation: "The title of the duke of Norfolk being, by the attainder of this Thomas, thus taken away, Philip, his eldest son, was called earl of Arundel, as owner of Arundel Castle in Sussex, by descent from his mother; it having, in II Henry VI. been adjudged in parliament to be a local dignity, so that the possessors thereof should enjoy that title of honour. Whereupon he, the said Philip, by that appellation, had summons to the parliament, begun at Westminster in January 16, 1575-80."

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