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 ARUNDEL COMPLETE PEERAGE 251 of Northumberland, on whom, however, he took ample revenge by pre- tending to join him in setting up Lady Jane Grey as Queen, and then betraying him to Queen Mary, and arresting him at Cambridge. He was not only among the 26 peers (") who signed the letters patent settling the Crown on Lady Jane Grey, (having done so, together with the Marquess of Winchester with a deliberate intention of deserting) ('') but was actually one of the 4 peers (with the Marquess of Northampton, the Earl of Hunt- ingdon, and the Earl of Pembroke) who, together with the Duke of Northumberland, did homage to her as Queen, 9 July 1553. (") The Queen made him Lord Steward of the Household in Sep. 1553, and he acted as High Constable at her coronation; Lord High Steward at the trial of the Duke of Suffolk, 17 Feb. 1553/4. His offices were continued to him by Queen Elizabeth. That Queen indeed he aspired to marry, but being rejected, he resigned all his offices in 1564. High Steward of Oxford Univ. 1555-59, and Chancellor thereof 6 Feb. to 12 June 1559. In 1568 he was on the Commission for the trial of the Queen of Scots, and aided in the design of his son-in-law, the Duke of Norfolk, for obtaining her in marriage. For this he was again imprisoned, and was not finally released till after Norfolk's execution in 1572. C) He w., istly, Catharine, da. of Thomas (Grey), 2nd Marquess of Dorset, by his 2nd wife, Mar- garet, da. of Sir Robert Wotton, which Catharine was aunt of the unfor- tunate Queen, Jane Grey, abovenamed. She d. i May 1532. He w., 2ndly, 19 Dec. 1545 (Lie. Fac. Off. 6 Sep. 1545), Mary, widow of Robert (') For a list of these see note sub Edward, Earl of Derby [1521]. (*) Froude's Quetn Mary, p. 73. C^) He was " of the middle size, well proportioned in limb, ' stronge in bone, furnished with cleane and firme flesh, voide of fogines and fatnes. ' His countenance was regular and expressive, his voice powerful and pleasing ; but the rapidity of his utterance often made his meaning ' somewhat harde to the unskilfull. ' " [Diet, of Nat. Biog.) He was leader of the old nobility and catholics, was constantly conspiring, and apparently always ready to play the part of Judas, at short notice. See a masterly character of him in Froude's Elizabeth, vol. i, pp. 43-4. " A piercing apprehension, a strong memory, a large and capacious judgment, a dexterous prudence, a discerning wisdom was the least of his happiness. " (Lloyd, 1665.) V.G. C) He was probably the earliest patron of Thomas Vautrollier (or Vautroullier), the learned printer, who dedicates his first printed work to him in 1570. See N. bf Q., 2nd Ser., vol. iv, p. 84. He was the purchaser (for ;^4i. 6s. 6d.) of what was afterwards known as Arundel House, in the Strand, which, having been origin- ally the old town house of the Bishops of Bath, had passed, temp. Edward VI, " without recompence, " into the hands of the King's uncle, Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley, after whose death and attainder in 1 549, it was sold as above. Here were stored the statues and other rarities collected by the Earl's great grandson, Thomas (Howard), Earl of Arundel, and here Hollar drew his well known view of London. Here also the meetings of the Royal Society were held, after the fire of London. The house was taken down in 1678, when Arundel street, Surrey street, Norfolk street, and Howard street were erected on its site, which still (19 10) belongs to the Earl's descendant, Henry (Fitz Alan Howard), Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, ^c.