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154 ARUNDEL. (firstly) in the chapel of the Tower of London, but removed thence, in 1624, to West Horsley, Surrey, the seat of the widow, and finally to Arundel. His widow, who was 6. 31 March 15.17 at Carlisle, and. who brought to her husband the estate of Cireystock, d. at Shefnal Manor, Salon, IP April 1830, in her 71th year, and was bur. at Anmdel. XXYI. 1604. MarlJf. Thomas Howabd, only s. and k b. 7 July 1886 at Finchinfield, Essex. By Act of I'arl. 160-1, he was restored in blood, and to the titles of E.uil Qg AiirNDlii. and KaHL ok SOBBKlf, and to such honours as his father had enjoyed, and such Baiionies as hud been Jioiirjiml bij his grandfather, the attainted Duke of Norfolk. Many of the estates, however, were in the hands of other members of the family. K.G. 24 April 1811. (In H Feb, 1813 he carried the sword of state at the marriage of Elizabeth, dau. of James I., soon after which he went to Italy and commenced acquiring the celebrated collection known as " the Anmdel Marbles," &c. («). Ou 25 Dec. 1615 he publicly professed the Protestant religion, and, becoming high in Court favour, in July 1618 was made P.C. : in Oct. of that year he was one of the six commissioners of the office of Earl Marshal, and on '29 Aug. 1621 was made EARL MARSHAL solely. In Aug. 1622 his [power to act as such, independently of the High Constable, was declared by patent. He assisted at the Coronation in 1625, but, next year, was imprisoned Bud heavily fined, owing to the clandestine marriage of his eldest s. and h. up. with Lady Elizabeth Stuart. In 1627 (8 Car. I) he obtained an Act. of I'arl. " For the annexing of the Castle, honour, manor and lordship of Arundel, &c, with the titles ami dignities of the BARONIES OF FITZ-ALAN, CLUN AND OSWALDESTHE AND MALTHAYEl{S,( b ) and with divers other lands, &c, being now parcels of the possession* of [him the said] Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Earl Marshal of England, to the same title, name and dignity of EAIU. OF AHL'NDEL." settling the same on him and the heirs male of his body, with rem. to the heir* if his body, with rem. to his unite Lord William Howard^') and his issue (male and general) in like way, with rem. to the said Earl and his heirs for ever. In Dee. 1632 he was sent in 1636 to Holland, on thef subject of the Palatinate. In Dec. 163S he had 'the command of the train bands against the Scotch Covenanters. In March 1611 he presided as Loud Hum Steward at the trial of Strafford. In Feb. 1048 he embarked ( :i ) At Evelyn's reciuest, the Earl's grandson, Henry Howard "of Norfolk" (after- wards Duke of Norfolk) gave (1) to the University of Oxford " those celebrated and famous inscriptions, Greek and Latine .... whatever I found had inscriptions on them that were nut statues ;" aud (2) to the Royal Society the Earl's library and such MSS. as were not reserved for the College of Arms ; of this a catalogue was printed in 16S1 entitled " Bibliotheca Norfolciaua." The Duke also gave (3) to the College of Arms (of which, as Earl Marshal, he was head) all MSS. relating to Genealogy and kindred subjects — of which a catalogue was printed in 1629 (8vo, pp. 136), edited by C. G. Young, afterwards Gai ter 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 " Caper's Gardens." ( b ) In his petition the Earl calls them " the titles names and dignities of Lord Fit- Alan, Lord of Clun and of Osiraldestre and Lard Midtrarcrs." ( c ) He was the youngest (tut 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 patented honours of the family, tit : the Dukedom of Norfolk, &c., are pi,stpoi.cd (in the Act of Pari, of 1627), as to the Earldom of Arundel &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 Eail of Arundel of the family of Fitz-Alan, have a descent from Richard (Fitz-Alan), Earl of Arundel aud Surrey (who d. 1397) through his 1st da. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas (Mowbray), Duke of Norfolk, and grandmother of their ancestor Sir John Howard, or. Duke of Norfolk. Such descent, however, carries with it no rep>-csenlation cither of the Fitz-Alan or of the Mowbray family.