A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Arundel, Mary
ARUNDEL, MARY,
Was the daughter of Sir Thomas Arundel, knight. She was married, first to Robert Ratcliff, who died without issue, 1666; secondly, to Henry Howard, earl of Arundel.
She translated from English into Latin "The Wise Sayings and Eminent Deeds of the Emperor Alexander Severus." This translation is dedicated to her father; the manuscript is in the royal library at Westminster. She translated also from Greek into Latin, select "Sentences of the seven wise Grecian Philosophers." In the same library are preserved, of her writing, "Similies collected from the books of Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, and other philosophers," which she also dedicated to her father.