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chery of his own fervants, he was difcovered, apprehended, and committed to the Tower. Here he lay above four years before he was brought to his trial, which came on April 18, 1589, and of which the particulars are preferved in the collection of State Trials. Though condemned to die, he never felt the edge of the axe, but was reprieved from time to time till his death in the Tower, October 19, Collins fays No- vember 19, 1595, and aged about forty years ; thus compenfating, as it were, by a clofe confinement for ten years, the fatal ftroke that had been undergone by his father, grand -father, and great-grand- father. Dod fays, that as to his perfon he was very tall, of a fwarthy com- plexion, with an agreeable mixture of fweetnef s and grandeur in his countenance, adding, that he had a foul fuperior to all human con- fiderations. His fon Thomas, whom he had by Anne, fifter of George, lord Dacres of Gifland, a co-heir, by whom the Howard family had a confiderable acceffion of property, inherited the ho- nours of this illuftrious houfe, and died at Padua in the year 1646. With regard to the title of earl of Arundel, taken by this Philip, cldeft fon of Thomas, duke of Norfolk, the following pafTage from Collins's Peerage affords a very ample explanation : " The title of the duke of Norfolk being, by the attainder of this Thomas, thus taken away, Philip, his eldeft fon, was called earl of Arundel, as owner of Arundel Caftle in Suflex, by defcent from his mother ; it having, in 1 1 Henry VI. been adjudged in parliament to be a local dignity, fo that the poffeiTors thereof fhould enjoy that title of ho- nour. Whereupon he, the faid Philip, by that appellation, had fummons to the parliament, begun at Weftminfter in January 16, 1575-80." VOL. XIII. L Plate