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 256 COMPLETE PEERAGE arundel religion, and, becoming high in Court favour, wa3 made P.C. 16 July 161 6 ; on 25 Sep. of that year he was one of the six commissioners of the office of Earl Marshal, and on 29 Aug. 1621, was made for life (") Earl Marshal solely. On i Aug. 1622 his power to act as such, independently of the High Constable, was declared by patent. He assisted at the coro- nation 2 Feb. 1625/6, but, next year, was imprisoned and heavily fined, owing to the clandestine marriage of his ist s. and h. ap. with Lady Elizabeth Stuart. In 1627 (3 Car. I) he obtained an Act. of Pari. " For the annexing of the Castle, honour, manor and lordship of Arundel, ^c, with the titles and dignities of the Baronies of Fitz Alan, Clun and OswALDESTRE AND MaltraverSjC') and with divers other lands, fe'c, being now parcels of the possessions of [him the said] Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Earl Marshal of England, to the same title, name and dignity of Earl of Arundel, " (°) settling the same on him and the heirs male of his body, with rem. to the heirs of his body, with rem. to his uncle Lord William Howard Q and his issue {rme and general) in like way, with rem. to the said Earl and his heirs for ever. To this is added a clause of precedency granting " all places, pre-eminences, arms, ensigns and dignities, to the said Earldom, Castle, Honour and Baronies belonging. " (°) In Dec. 1632 he was sent as Ambassador from the King to his sister, the widowed Queen of Bohemia, and again in 1636 to Holland, on the as well as The Arundel MSS., — of which a catalogue was printed in 1829 (8vo, pp. 136), edited by C.G.Young, afterwards Garter King of Arms. As to the statues, most of them were sold in 1720 (for ;^6,335), but many, especially those in any way mutilated, had been removed as early as 1678, by Cuper (the Earl's gardener) to his public pleasure gardens at Bankside, Southwark. See Cunningham's London, under " Tart Hall, " and " Cuper's Gardens. " C) See creations 1 483-1 646, App., 47th Rep, D. K. Public Records. The office only became hereditary in 1672. C") In his petition the Earl calls them " the titles names and dignities 01 Lora Fitz Alan, Lord of Clun and of Oswaldestre and Lord Maltravers. " {^) " The Dukes of Norfolk are Earls of Arundel not by possession of Arundel Castle only, but under the special entail of the dignity cr. by Act. of Pari., in 1627." {Quart. Rev., Oct. 1893, p. 414.) V.G. C) He was the younger (but the survivor) of the two brothers of the half blood (neither of whom had for their mother the heiress of the Fitz Alan family) of the last Earl, so that (probably owing to this fortunate survivorship) the Earls of Suffolk, who descend from the elder of these two brothers, and, consequently, are next in rem. to the paternal honour of the family, viz.: the Dukedom of Norfolk, &c., are postponed (in the Act of Pari, of 1627), as to the Earldom of Arundel is'c, to the Earls of Carlisle and all other issue, male or female, of this Lord William Howard, their ancestor's younger brother. Both these Earls, (i.e. Suffolk and Carlisle) though not descended from the heiress of the last Earl of Arundel of the family of Fitz Alan, have a descent from Richard (Fitz Alan), Earl of Arundel and Surrey (who d. 1397) through his 1st da. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas (Mowbray), Duke of Norfolk, and grandmother of their ancestor Sir John Howard, er. Duke of Norfolk. Such descent, however, carries with it no rtpresintation either of the Fitz Alan or of the Mowbray family. (•)Seep. 231, note " b. "