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 254 COMPLETE PEERAGE arundel 2 June 1572) and only child, by (his ^fn/ wife) Mary, 2nd da. (by ist wife) and only child that had issue, of Henry (Fitz Alan), Earl of Arundel (°) abovenamed. He was t. 28 June 1557, at Arundel House, Strand, and i>ap. 2 July following at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the King, Philip, after whom he was named, being in person one of his Godfathers. On 25 Aug. following, his mother </. in her 17th year. He was ed. at the Univ. of Cambridge. M.A. Nov. 1576. On 24 Feb. 1579/80 he sue. his maternal grandfather and, on the same day. Lord Lumley, on whom (jointly with Joan his wife, who had d. s.p. some four years previously, being the elder of the two daughters of the late Earl of Arundel) the Axundel estates had in 1570 been settled, conveyed his life interest in the Castle and Honour of Arundel to him, whereby (according to the admission (*) of 1433) he became Earl of Arundel. On 28 May 1580, he took the arms of Fitz Alan only. He was sum. to Pari, as " Earl of Arundel " 16 Jan. (i 580/1) 23 Eliz., and took his seat as such 11 Apr. following. By Act. of Pari. 23 Eliz., he was, on 15 Mar. 1 580/1, restored in blood. In Sep. 1584 he became (as his wife had previously become) a Roman Catholic, and, having endeavoured to escape from England without licence, was taken prisoner 25 Apr. 1585, and lodged in the Tower of London, of Arundel, on Philip Howard, stylgd Earl of Surrey, (being s. and h. ap. of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk), the said Earl of Arundel, " after reciting that forasmuch as the said Earldom was the most ancient Earldom of this Realm, and that, in a certain event, the same was to descend to the Earl of Surrey or to the heirs of his body, covenanted with the said Duke of Norrolk, that after such time as the same honour or dignity of Duke of Norfolk shall descend to the said Earl of Surrey, or to the heirs of his body, then the son and heir apparent of the said Earl of Surrey and the heirs of his body, in all writings and in ail common appellations and callings shall be written, named, and called the Earl of Arundel and Surrey. Although this covenant is since annulled by the resettlement of the estates (Act of Pari., 3 Car. I), the Duke of Norfolk, on his accession in 1 842, styled his eldest son Earl of Arundel and Surrey, and to evince a further regard for the House of Fitz Alan, was desirous that the name of Fitz Alan should be borne by his issue." — MS. note by T.W.King, York Herald (1848-72), in his copy of Nicolas. (") An interesting little work (London, 1857), was edited by the late (1856- 1860) Duke of Norfolk, from the original MS. in his possession entitled "The life and death of the Renowned Confessor, Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, &c. " and " The life of the R' Hon. Lady, the Lady Anne, Countesse of Arundell and Surrey, Foundresse of the English College of the Society of Jesus in Gant. " The author was probably a Jesuit priest. It appears herein that the Earl in his youth was some- what wild, and had behaved so undutifully to his grandfather (the Earl of Arundel) and his aunt, the Lady Lumley, that " they both were so aversed from him that they alienated unto others a great part of their estates which otherwise would have come from them to him ; " also by his profuse expenditure " in tiltings and tourneys, " in entertaining ambassadors, as also the Queen herself, once at Keninghall, Norfolk, and again at his house in Norwich, he became to be so deeply indebted that he was forced to make " sale of a good quantity both of his own and his Lady's lands. " After his conversion, however, his manner of life was very different, and indeed truly exemplary. (") Seep. 231, note"b. "