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 ARUNDEL COMPLETE PEERAGE 257 subject of the Palatinate. Said to have been Grand Master of Freemasons i633"35- Chief Justice in Eyre North of Trent 25 Feb. 1634 till his death. In Dec. 1638 he had command of the train bands against the Scottish Covenanters. C) Lord Lieut, of Cumberland 31 Aug. 1639. Lord Steward of the Household Apr. 1640 to Aug. 1641. In Mar. 1641 he presided as Lord High Steward at the trial of Strafford. In Feb. 1642 he embarked with the Princess Mary to conduct her to her husband, the Prince of Orange, and never returned to England. In answer to a petition (which he had presented in 1641), signed by sixteen Peers, praying to be restored to the Dukedom of his grandfather, the King, by patent, dated at Oxford 6 June 1644, cr. him EARL OF NORFOLK, with rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to those of his uncle Thomas, late Earl of Suffolk, rem. to his uncle. Lord William Howard, with like remainder. He m., in Sep. 1606, Alathea, 3rd da. and coh., but eventually sole h., of Gilbert (Talbot), 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, by Mary, da. of Sir William Cavendish. He d. 4 Oct. 1646, at Padua, (M.l. there) aged 61, and was bur. at Arundel. Admon. 13 Nov. 1646. One will is dat. 28 Mar. 161 7; another, dat. 3 Sep. 1641, pr. at York 23 July 1647. (") His widow, who on 7 Dec. 1651 (on the death of her surv. sister s.p!) inherited the Baronies OF Furnival (1295), Strange of Blackmere (1308), and Talbot (1331), d. 24 May/3 June 1654, at Amsterdam, and was bur. at Rotherham, co. York. (°) Admon. 1659, in Court of Delegates, to William (Howard), Viscount Stafford, yr. s. of deceased. Further admon. 8 Jan. 1714/5 to Henry (Stafford-Howard), Earl of Stafford, grandson and next of kin. (") Having, according to Clarendon " nothing martial about him but his presence and his looks. " V.G. C) See notes concerning him in iV. {ff jj., 3rd Ser., vol. ii, p. 403. The unflat- tering character given of him by Clarendon suggests over-weening pride and incompetence — e.g.^ that he went to court but seldom " because there, only, was a greater man than himself" — that " He was willing to be thought a scholar " because of his purchase of statues and collection of medals, but " as to ail parts of learning he was most illiterate " — that his dress was " very different from that of the time, such as men had only beheld in the pictures of the most considerable men, all which drew the eyes of most and the reverence of many towards him " — that he was " not much concerned for religion, " nor " inclined to this or that party, " but " had little other affection for the nation than as he had a share in it, in which, like the great Leviathan, he might sport himself ; from which he withdrew as soon as he discerned the repose thereof was likely to be disturbed and died in Italy under the same doubtful character of religion in which he lived." A 17th century poem says of his life in that country : — " Remaining in that calm delightful air Till death removed him thence, the Lord knows where. " Evelyn, however, speaks of him very differently as " the magnificent Earl of Arundel, my noble friend while he lived. " i^) For her was built, by Nicholas Stone, in 1638, " Tart Hall, " near Buckingham House, but just outside St. James's Park. This descended to her 2nd s.. Lord Stafford, whose name is still preserved in Stafford Row. — See Cunningham's London. It was through her that the Howard family inherited the Manor of Worksop, Notts, held by Grand Serjeantry. See Taylor's Glory of Regality, p. 138. 34