Diary of Edward VI. Likewise sir Thomas Arrundel¹ and sir Jhon committed to the Towre for conspiracies in the West partes.²

Note 1. Sir Thomas Arundel was son of sir John Arundel, KB., of Lanherne in Cornwall, by lady John Arundell of Lanherne and [his mother] Alianor Grey, daughter of Thomas marquess of Dorset and aunt to lady Katharine Grey, the earl of Arundel's first wife. His half-sister Mary (previously countess of Sussex) was the earl of Arundel's second wife. He was educated in the household of cardinal Wolsey, being "one of the gentlemen of the lord legate's privy chambre;" under which designation, and as his cousin and bedfellow, he is addressed by the earl of Northumberland in 1527 (letter in Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, edited by Singer, 1825, ii. 125). He was made knight of the Bath at the coronation of queen Anne Boleyne; and, having married Margaret, daughter of lord Edmund Howard, and sister to queen Katharine Howard, he was chancellor to that queen. He was also receiver of the duchy of Cornwall. (Council Book, Oct. 20, 1549.) George Cavendish, in his Metrical Visions, represents him as having pursued a line of conduct at this period corresponding with that attributed to him by bishop Ponet in the passage already quoted, —

With the duke of Northumberland I was in consultacion,

Who bore the duke of Somerset high indignacion:

I was cheafe councellor in his first overthrowe

Of the duke of Somerset, which few men did know.

On what ground he got into trouble at the present time has not been ascertained. In the proceedings of the council merely appears this entry under the "xxx. Jan. 1549-50: Sir Thomas Arundell knight committed to the Tower by the order of the board." He continued in the Tower until the 4th Oct. 1551, when he was released; but was again arrested on the 16th of the same month, and was one of those who were executed as conspirators with Somerset (as will further appear hereafter).

Note 2. Sir John Arundel was the elder brother of sir Thomas. He died in 1557; having married lady Anne Stanley, daughter of Edward earl of Derby [Note. This appears to be a mistake? His son John Arundell married Anne Stanley Baroness Stourton]. He was ancestor of the Arundells of Lanherne in Cornwall and Chideock in Dorsetshire; and his brother sir Thomas of those of Wardour, — still peers of the realm. As this passage of the Iving's Journal has been hitherto inaccurately printed, the name of sir John Arundel wholly disappeared from the text. On the xviij April, 1550, the council directed "letters to the lieutenant of the Tower to permit the lady Arundell, wife of sir John Arundell, to resort to her husband, at times convenient, at her liberty, talking with him in the presence of the lieutenant or his deputy." On the vij May "a letter to the lieutenant of the Tower, commanding him to lett sir John Arundell have the libertie of the same, having alwaies one of the lieutenaunt's men to attend upon him." On the 24th June the same liberty was conceded to sir John and sir Thomas Arundell, John a Leigh, and Hosier. (Council Book.) The earl of Warwick blamed the duke of Somerset for "having so unadvisedly attempted the enlargement and delivery of the bishop of Winchester and the Amndells." See a letter of E. Whalley to Cecill, dated 26th June, in Tytler, ii. 21.

In the absence of any other evidence than the above passage of the King's Journal, it may be doubted whether either sir Thomas Arundel or sir John had anything to do with "conspiracies in the West partes." A serious rebellion made head in Cornwall about this time, of which the chief captain was Humphrey Arundel, governor of the castle of St. Michael's Mount. That person, on his defeat, was brought prisoner to the Tower of London, and with some of his comrades was hung at Tybourn on the 27th Jan. 1549-50. Of this rebelKon in Cornwall and Devonshire considerable details are related by Foxe; see also Carew's Survey of Cornwall, and Hals's History of Cornwall, edited by Davies Gilbert, Pres.R.S. 1838, 8vo. ii. 192-198.