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Vol. III. of that entertaining work, we are informed that "Thomas, . duke of Norfolk, who probably efcaped death by the death of Henry the VHIth, in his petition to the lords from the Tower of London, requefts to have fome of the books which are now at Lambeth; for, fays he, unlefs I have books to read, ere I fall afleep, and af- ter I awake again, I cannot fleep, nor have done thefe dozen years;'* farther requefting " that I may hear mafs, and be bound upon my life not to fpeak to him who fays mafs, which he may do in the other chamber, whilft I remain within. That I may be allowed ftieets to lie on ; to have licence in the day time to walk in the chamber without, and in the night be locked in, as I am now." And he concludes, " I would gladly have licence to fend to Lon- don to buy one book of St. Auftin de Civitate Dei, and one of Jo- fephus de Antiquitatibus." Plate III. reprefents the curious device of the ambitious John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, fon of that Edmund Dudley who had been put to death by command of Henry VIII. His fon John became, however, an object of that fickle monarch's favour, was created by him lord vifcount Lifle, and appointed one of his executors in his laft will. "Early in the fubfequent reign he was created earl of Warwick, and made lord chamberlain. With ta- lents equally adapted for the camp and cabinet, he diftinguiftied himfelf as lieutenant-general under the duke- of Somerfet at Mufle- borough Fight in Scotland in 1547? and afterwards as chief com- mander againft the Norfolk rebels under Kett. He was created, probably on thefe accounts, duke of Northumberland in 1551. Raifed to a height favourable to his ambitious views, he now formed the dangerous dciign of aggrandizing his own family, by <lcftroy- ing the fettlement of the crown made by Henry the VTIIth, where- by the princefTes Mary and Elizabeth were to fucceed upon a failure of iffue in Edward the Vlth, in favour of Jane Gray, of the houfe 6 of