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ARUNDEL. 153 XXV. L r >80, 90 or 15. Pmup (Howard), Earl of Arundel, for- to raerly styled EAKL OF SURREY^), grandson & h., being s. and 1589. h. of Thomas, (Xth) 4th Dukk of hobfowc, Earl ok Subset, &c. (who was attainted 10 Jan. and beheaded 2 June 1572) and only child, by (his first wife) Mary, 2nd da. (by first wife) and only child that had *sue, of Henvy (Fitx-Ai.an), Kaui, ok Aui'subi. ( b ) ahovenamed. He was 28 June 15:">7 at Arundel House, Strand, and bap. 2 July following at the Roytil Chapel, Whitehall, Philip «>f Spain, from whom he was named, being one of his Godfathers). On the 25 Aug. following, his mother tl. in her 17th year. He was ed. at the 1'niv. of Cambridge. On 24 Teh. 1.579-SO he sue. his maternal grandfather and, on the taint day, Lord Lumley, on whom (jointly with Joan his wife, wh> had tl. s.ji. some four years previous, being the eldest of the two daughters of the late Earl of Arundel) the Arundel 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 EaRLOP Akkndkl. He was sum. to Pari, as " Carl of Arundel" It) Jan. (23 Eli/.) lfiSO-1, and took his seat as such 11 April following ; P.C. in 1581. Shortly afterwards he became (as his wife had previously become) a Roman Catholic, and, having endeavoured to escape from England without licence, was taken prisoner in 1585 and fined £10,000. He was attainted in 15S9 on a charge of high treason when all his honours became forfeited, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he </., not without suspicion of poison. He m. in 1571 at " the age of 12 years complete," and again, " about 2 years after that, when he was at years of full consent, that is after 14 complete," Anne, one of the children of his stepmother, Elizabeth, DUCHESS OY Norfolk, being eldest of the three sistersf/ 1 ) and coheirs of George, Loud D.u UK OK OiLLKSLAND, and da. of Thomas (Dacrk), Lord Dacre of Gillesland, by Elizabeth (the abovenamed Duchess), da. of Sir Francis LeybdrN. The Earl d. as afa'd. 19 Oct. 1595, after about eleven years of imprisonment, and was bur (») Pre-eminence of tub Earldom of Arundel over the Earldom of Surrey. In the settlement made by Henry (Fitz-Alan), Earl of Arundel, of the Earldom of Arundel, on Philip Howard, styled 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 Norfolk, 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 all common appellations and callings shall be written, named, and ceiUed the Earl ok Aiu'NDKL and SURREY. Although this covenant is since annulled by the resettlement of the estates (Act of Pari., 3 Car. 1), the Duke of Norfolk, on his accession in 1842, sty led 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." ( b ) A most interesting little work (London, 1857, small Svo. pp. 318) was edited by the late (lSoG- ISo'O) 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 Arundel] and Surrey, Foundresse of the English College of the Society of Jesus in Gant." The author was probably a Jesuit monk. It appears herein that the Earl in his youth was somewhat wild and had behaved so undutii'ully 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 most trulv exemplary. ( c ) See p. 138, note "c." ( ) The two other sisters and coheirs m, his two brothers of the half blood. One of '™ <'■ S -P-, and the other brought the estate of Naworth to her husband, Lord « llham Howard, by whom she was ancestress to the Earls of Carlisle.