Biography of Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk 1628-1684
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On 07 Mar 1626 [his father] Henry Howard 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk (age 17) and [his mother] Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk (age 16) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox and [his grandmother] Katherine Clifton Duchess Lennox (age 34). He the son of [his grandfather] Thomas Howard 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk (age 40) and [his grandmother] Alethea Talbot Countess Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk (age 41).
On 12 Jul 1628 Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk was born to Henry Howard 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk (age 19) and Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk (age 18).
Evelyn's Diary. 23 Mar 1646. It was Easter-Monday that I was invited to breakfast at the Earl of Arundel's. I took my leave of him in his bed, where I left that great and excellent man in tears on some private discourse of crosses that had befallen his illustrious family, particularly the undutifulness of his grandson Philip turning Dominican Friar (since Cardinal of Norfolk), and the misery of his country now embroiled in civil war. He caused his gentleman to give me directions, all written with his own hand, what curiosities I should inquire after in my journey; and, so enjoining me to write sometimes to him, I departed. There stayed for me below, Mr. Henry Howard (age 17) (afterward Duke of Norfolk), Mr. J. Digby (age 19), son of Sir Kenelm Digby (age 43), and other gentlemen, who conducted me to the coach.
On 04 Oct 1646 [his grandfather] Thomas Howard 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk (age 61) died. His son [his father] Henry Howard 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk (age 38) succeeded 22nd Earl Arundel Sussex, 5th Earl Surrey, 2nd Earl Norfolk, 12th Baron Maltravers, 12th Baron Arundel, 15th Baron Mowbray, 16th Baron Segrave. [his mother] Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk (age 36) by marriage Countess Arundel Sussex, Countess Norfolk, Countess Norfolk.
Around 1652 Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 23) and Anne Somerset Countess Norfolk (age 21) were married. She the daughter of Henry Somerset 1st Marquess Worcester and Anne Russell 2nd Marchioness Worcester. He the son of Henry Howard 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk (age 43) and Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk (age 42).
On 17 Apr 1652 [his father] Henry Howard 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk (age 43) died. His son [his brother] Thomas Howard 5th Duke of Norfolk (age 25) succeeded 23rd Earl Arundel Sussex, 6th Earl Surrey, 3rd Earl Norfolk, 13th Baron Maltravers, 13th Baron Arundel, 16th Baron Mowbray, 17th Baron Segrave.
On 11 Jan 1655 [his son] Henry Howard 7th Duke of Norfolk was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 26) and [his wife] Anne Somerset Countess Norfolk (age 24).
Evelyn's Diary. 10 Aug 1655. To Albury, to visit Mr. Howard (age 27), who had begun to build, and alter the gardens much. He showed me many rare pictures, particularly the Moor on horseback; Erasmus, as big as the life, by Holbein; a Madonna, in miniature, by Oliver; but, above all, the skull, carved in wood, by Albert Durer, for which his father was offered £100; also Albert's head, by himself, with divers rare agates, intaglios, and other curiosities.
In 1657 [his son] Thomas Howard was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 28) and [his wife] Anne Somerset Countess Norfolk (age 26).
Evelyn's Diary. 15 Sep 1659. Came to see me Mr. Brereton (age 28), a very learned gentleman, son to my Lord Brereton (age 48), with his wife and divers other ladies. Also, Henry Howard of Norfolk (age 31), since Duke of Norfolk.
Evelyn's Diary. 17 Oct 1659. I visited Mr. Howard (age 31), at Arundel House [Map], who gave me a fair onyx set in gold, and showed me his design of a palace there.
In 1662 [his wife] Anne Somerset Countess Norfolk (age 31) died.
Evelyn's Diary. 19 Jun 1662. I went to Albury, to visit Mr. Henry Howard (age 33), soon after he had procured the Dukedom to be restored. This gentleman had now compounded a debt of £200,000, contracted by his [his grandfather] grandfather. I was much obliged to that great virtuoso, and to this young gentleman, with whom I stayed a fortnight.
Evelyn's Diary. 02 Jul 1662. We hunted and killed a buck in the park, Mr. Howard (age 33) inviting most of the gentlemen of the country near him.
Evelyn's Diary. 03 Jul 1662. my wife (age 27) met me at Woodcot, whither Mr. Howard (age 33) accompanied me to see my son John, who had been much brought up among Mr. Howard's children at Arundel House [Map], till, for fear of their perverting him in the Catholic religion, I was forced to take him home.
Evelyn's Diary. 01 Aug 1662. Mr. H. Howard (age 34), his brothers [his brother] Charles (age 32), [his brother] Edward (age 25), [his brother] Bernard (age 21), [his brother] Philip (age 33), now the Queen's (age 23) Almoner (all brothers of the Duke of Norfolk, still in Italy), came with a great train, and dined with me; Mr. H. Howard leaving with me his eldest and youngest sons, [his son] Henry (age 7) and [his son] Thomas (age 5), for three or four days, my son, John (age 7), having been sometime bred up in their father's house.
Pepy's Diary. 28 Nov 1666. Here was Mr. Henry Howard (age 38), that will hereafter be Duke of Norfolke, who is admitted this day into the Society, and being a very proud man, and one that values himself upon his family, writes his name, as he do every where, Henry Howard of Norfolke.
Pepy's Diary. 07 Jan 1667. He tells me how the Parliament is grown so jealous of the King's being unfayre to them in the business of the Bill for examining Accounts, Irish Bill, and the business of the Papists, that they will not pass the business for money till they see themselves secure that those Bills will pass; which they do observe the Court to keep off till all the Bills come together, that the King (age 36) may accept what he pleases, and what he pleases to reject, which will undo all our business and the Kingdom too. He tells me how Mr. Henry Howard (age 38), of Norfolke, hath given our Royal Society all his [his grandfather] grandfather's library: which noble gift they value at £1000; and gives them accommodation to meet in at his house, Arundell House [Map], they being now disturbed at Gresham College.
Pepy's Diary. 09 Jan 1667. Thence to Faythorne (age 51), and bought a head or two; one of them my Lord of Ormond's (age 56), the best I ever saw, and then to Arundell House [Map], where first the Royall Society meet, by the favour of Mr. Harry Howard (age 38), who was there, and has given us his [his grandfather] grandfather's library, a noble gift, and a noble favour and undertaking it is for him to make his house the seat for this college. Here was an experiment shown about improving the use of powder for creating of force in winding up of springs and other uses of great worth. And here was a great meeting of worthy noble persons; but my Lord Bruncker (age 47), who pretended to make a congratulatory speech upon their coming hither, and in thanks to Mr. Howard, do it in the worst manner in the world, being the worst speaker, so as I do wonder at his parts and the unhappiness of his speaking.
Pepy's Diary. 23 Jan 1667. Up, and with Sir W. Batten (age 66) and Sir W. Pen (age 45) to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York (age 33), and did our usual business. Having done there, I to St. James's, to see the organ Mrs. Turner (age 44) told me of the other night, of my late [his uncle] Lord Aubigney's; and I took my Lord Bruncker (age 47) with me, he being acquainted with my present Lord Almoner, [his brother] Mr. Howard (age 38), brother to the Duke of Norfolke (age 38); so he and I thither and did see the organ, but I do not like it, it being but a bauble, with a virginal! joining to it: so I shall not meddle with it.
On 03 Apr 1667 [his former brother-in-law] Edward Somerset 2nd Marquess Worcester (age 65) died. His son Henry Somerset 1st Duke Beaufort (age 38) succeeded 3rd Marquess Worcester, 7th Earl Worcester, 8th Baron Herbert of Raglan. Mary Capell Duchess Beaufort (age 36) by marriage Marchioness Worcester.
Evelyn's Diary. 19 Sep 1667. This done 21st, I accompanied Mr. Howard (age 39) to his villa at Albury, where I designed for him the plot of his canal and garden, with a crypt through the hill.
Evelyn's Diary. 19 Sep 1667. To London, with Mr. Henry Howard (age 39), of Norfolk, of whom I obtained the gift of his Arundelian marbles, those celebrated and famous inscriptions, Greek and Latin, gathered with so much cost and industry from Greece, by his illustrious [his grandfather] grandfather, the magnificent Earl of Arundel, my noble friend while he lived. When I saw these precious. Monuments miserably neglected, and scattered up and down about the garden, and other parts of Arundel House [Map], and how exceedingly the corrosive air of London impaired them, I procured him to bestow them on the University of Oxford. This he was pleased to grant me; and now gave me the key of the gallery, with leave to mark all those stones, urns, altars, etc., and whatever I found had inscriptions on them, that were not statues. This I did; and getting them removed and piled together, with those which were incrusted in the garden walls, I sent immediately letters to the Vice-Chancellor of what I had procured, and that if they esteemed it a service to the University (of which I had been a member), they should take order for their transportation.
Evelyn's Diary. 08 Oct 1667. Came to dine with me Dr. Bathurst (age 47), Dean of Wells, President of Trinity College, sent by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, in the name both of him and the whole University, to thank me for procuring the inscriptions, and to receive my directions what was to be done to show their gratitude to Mr. Howard (age 39).
Evelyn's Diary. 25 Oct 1667. These four doctors, having made me this compliment, desired me to carry and introduce them to Mr. Howard (age 39), at Arundel House [Map]; which I did, Dr. Barlow (age 59) (Provost of Queen's) after a short speech, delivering a larger letter of the University's thanks, which was written in Latin, expressing the great sense they had of the honor done them. After this compliment handsomely performed and as nobly received, Mr. Howard accompanied the doctors to their coach. That evening I supped with them.
Evelyn's Diary. 25 Oct 1667. The Vice-Chancellor's letter to the same effect was too vainglorious to insert, with divers copies of verses that were also sent me. Their mentioning me in the inscription I totally declined, when I directed the titles of Mr. Howard (age 39), now made Lord, upon his Ambassage to Morocco.
Pepy's Diary. 17 Jan 1668. Up, and by coach to White Hall to attend the Council there, and here I met first by Mr. Castle (age 39) the shipwright, whom I met there, and then from the whole house the discourse of the duell yesterday between the Duke of Buckingham (age 39), Holmes, and one Jenkins, on one side, and my Lord of Shrewsbury (age 45), Sir John Talbot (age 37), and one [his brother] Bernard Howard (age 27), on the other side: and all about my Lady Shrewsbury (age 25)1, who is a whore, and is at this time, and hath for a great while been, a whore to the Duke of Buckingham. And so her husband challenged him, and they met yesterday in a close near Barne-Elmes, and there fought: and my Lord Shrewsbury is run through the body, from the right breast through the shoulder: and Sir John Talbot all along up one of his armes; and Jenkins killed upon the place, and the rest all, in a little measure, wounded. This will make the world think that the King (age 37) hath good councillors about him, when the Duke of Buckingham, the greatest man about him, is a fellow of no more sobriety than to fight about a whore. And this may prove a very bad accident to the Duke of Buckingham, but that my Baroness Castlemayne (age 27) do rule all at this time as much as ever she did, and she will, it is believed, keep all matters well with the Duke of Buckingham: though this is a time that the King will be very backward, I suppose, to appear in such a business. And it is pretty to hear how the King had some notice of this challenge a week or two ago, and did give it to my Lord Generall (age 59) to confine the Duke, or take security that he should not do any such thing as fight: and the Generall trusted to the King that he, sending for him, would do it, and the King trusted to the Generall; and so, between both, as everything else of the greatest moment do, do fall between two stools. The whole House full of nothing but the talk of this business; and it is said that my Lord Shrewsbury's case is to be feared, that he may die too; and that may make it much the worse for the Duke of Buckingham: and I shall not be much sorry for it, that we may have some sober man come in his room to assist in the Government. Here I waited till the Council rose, and talked the while, with Creed, who tells me of Mr. Harry Howard's' (age 39) giving the Royal Society a piece of ground next to his house, to build a College on, which is a most generous act. And he tells me he is a very fine person, and understands and speaks well; and no rigid Papist neither, but one that would not have a Protestant servant leave his religion, which he was going to do, thinking to recommend himself to his master by it; saying that he had rather have an honest Protestant than a knavish Catholique. I was not called into the Council; and, therefore, home, first informing myself that my Lord Hinchingbrooke (age 20) hath been married this week to my Lord Burlington's (age 55) daughter (age 23); so that that great business is over; and I mighty glad of it, though I am not satisfied that I have not a Favour sent me, as I see Attorney Montagu (age 50) and the Vice-Chamberlain have (age 58). But I am mighty glad that the thing is done.
Note 1. Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Brudenel, second Earl of Cardigan (age 60). Walpole says she held the Duke of Buckingham's horse, in the habit of a page, while he was fighting the duel with her husband. She married, secondly, George Rodney Bridges, son of Sir Thomas Bridges of Keynsham, Somerset (age 51), Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles IL, and died April 20th, 1702. A portrait of the Countess of Shrewsbury, as Minerva, by Lely.
Pepy's Diary. 22 Jun 1668. Thence with him to my Lord Brouncker's (age 48), where a Council of the Royall Society; and there heard Mr. Harry Howard's (age 39) noble offers about ground for our College, and his intentions of building his own house there most nobly. My business was to meet Mr. Boyle (age 41), which I did, and discoursed about my eyes; and he did give me the best advice he could, but refers me to one Turberville (age 56), of Salsbury, lately come to town, which I will go to1. Thence home, where the streets full, at our end of the town, removing their wine against the Act begins, which will be two days hence, to raise the price. I did get my store in of Batelier this night. So home to supper and to bed.
Note 1. Daubigny Turberville, of Oriel College; created M.D. at Oxford,1660. He was a physician of some eminence, and, dying at Salisbury on the 21st April, 1696, aged eighty-five, he was buried in the cathedral, where his monument remains. Cassan, in his "Lives of the Bishops of Sarum", part iii., p. 103, has reprinted an interesting account of Turberville, from the "Memoir of Bishop Seth Ward", published in 1697, by Dr. Walter Pope. Turberville was born at Wayford, co. Somerset, in 1612, and became an expert oculist; and probably Pepys received great benefit from his advice, as his vision does not appear to have failed during the many years that he lived after discontinuing the Diary. The doctor died rich, and subsequently to his decease his sister Mary, inheriting all his prescriptions, and knowing how to use them, practised as an oculist in London with good reputation. B.
In 1669 Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 40) was created 1st Baron Howard of Castle Rising.
Around 1669 John Michael Wright (age 51). Portrait of Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 40).
Evelyn's Diary. 17 Oct 1671. My Lord Henry Howard (age 43) coming this night to visit my Lord Chamberlain, and staying a day, would needs have me go with him to Norwich, Norfolk [Map], promising to convey me back, after a day or two; this, as I could not refuse, I was not hard to be pursuaded to, having a desire to see that famous scholar and physician, Dr. T. Browne (age 65), author of the Religio Medici and Vulgar Errors, now lately knighted. Thither, then, went my Lord and I alone, in his flying chariot with six horses; and by the way, discoursing with me of several of his concerns, he acquainted me of his going to marry his eldest son to one of the King's (age 41) natural daughters [Note. Either Anne Fitzroy Countess Sussex (age 10) or Charlotte Fitzroy Countess Lichfield (age 7).], by the Duchess of Cleveland (age 30); by which he reckoned he should come into mighty favor. He also told me that, though he kept that idle creature, Mrs. B-- [Note. [his future wife] Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk (age 28)], and would leave £200 a year to the son [Note. Henry Howard and Jane Bickerton had three sons; not clear which is being referred to since the eldest may have died and the reference may be to a surviving son.] he had by her, he would never marry her, and that the King himself had cautioned him against it. All the world knows how he kept his promise [Note. meaning he didn't keep his promise since Henry Howard did marry Jane Bickerton - this a case of John Evelyn writing his diary retrospectively?], and I was sorry at heart to hear what now he confessed to me; and that a person and a family which I so much honored for the sake of that noble and illustrious friend of mine, his [his grandfather] grandfather, should dishonor and pollute them both with those base and vicious courses he of late had taken since the death of Sir Samuel Tuke (age 56), and that of his own virtuous lady (my [his former wife] Lady Anne Somerset, sister to the [his former brother-in-law] Marquis); who, while they lived, preserved this gentleman by their example and advice from those many extravagances that impaired both his fortune and reputation.
Evelyn's Diary. 17 Oct 1671. Being come to the Ducal palace [Map], my Lord (age 43) made very much of me; but I had little rest, so exceedingly desirous he was to show me the contrivance he had made for the entertainment of their Majesties, and the whole Court not long before, and which, though much of it was but temporary, apparently framed of boards only, was yet standing. As to the palace, it is an old wretched building, and that part of it newly built of brick, is very ill understood; so as I was of the opinion it had been much better to have demolished all, and set it up in a better place, than to proceed any further; for it stands in the very market-place, and, though near a river, yet a very narrow muddy one, without any extent.
Evelyn's Diary. 18 Oct 1671. I returned to Euston, in Lord Henry Howard's (age 43) coach, leaving him at Norwich, in company with a very ingenious gentleman, Mr. White, whose father and mother (daughter to the late Lord Treasurer Weston, Earl of Portland) I knew at Rome, where this gentleman was born, and where his parents lived and died with much reputation, during their banishment in our civil broils.
Around 1672 Gilbert Soest (age 67). Portrait of Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 43).
In 1672 Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 43) was created 1st Earl Norwich.
Evelyn's Diary. 26 Sep 1672. I carried with me to dinner my Lord H. Howard (age 44) (now to be made Earl of Norwich and Earl Marshal of England) to Sir Robert Clayton's (age 43), now Sheriff of London, at his new house, where we had a great feast; it is built indeed for a great magistrate, at excessive cost. The cedar dining room is painted with the history of the Giants' War, incomparably done by Mr. Streeter (age 51), but the figures are too near the eye.
In 1674 [his mother] Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk (age 64) died.
Around 1675 Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 46) and Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk (age 32) were married. He the son of Henry Howard 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk and Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk.
In Oct 1676 [his son-in-law] George Gordon 1st Duke Gordon (age 33) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Howard Duchess Gordon were married. She by marriage Marchioness Huntly. She the daughter of Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 48) and [his wife] Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk (age 33). He the son of Lewis Gordon 3rd Marquess Huntly. They were third cousins.
On 08 Aug 1677 [his son] Henry Howard 7th Duke of Norfolk (age 22) and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Mordaunt Duchess Norfolk (age 18) were married. She the daughter of Henry Mordaunt 2nd Earl Peterborough (age 55) and Penelope O'Brien Countess Peterborough (age 55). He the son of Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 49) and [his former wife] Anne Somerset Countess Norfolk.
On 13 Dec 1677 [his brother] Thomas Howard 5th Duke of Norfolk (age 50) died in Padua unmarried. He had suffered mental disabilities all his life. His brother Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 49) succeeded 6th Duke Norfolk, 24th Earl Arundel Sussex, 7th Earl Surrey, 4th Earl Norfolk, 18th Baron Segrave, 19th Baron Strange Blackmere, 17th Baron Mowbray, 16th Baron Talbot, 15th Baron Furnivall, 14th Baron Maltravers, 14th Baron Arundel. [his wife] Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk (age 34) by marriage Duchess Norfolk. The marriage being so unpopular with his family they went abroad for some time.
Evelyn's Diary. 23 Jan 1678. Dined with the Duke of Norfolk (age 49), being the first time I had seen him since the death of his [his brother] elder brother, who died at Padua in Italy, where he had resided above thirty years. The Duke had now newly declared his marriage to his [his wife] concubine (age 35), whom he promised me he never would marry. I went with him to see the Duke of Buckingham (age 49), thence to my Lord Sunderland (age 36), now Secretary of State, to show him that rare piece of Vosterman's (son of old Vosterman), which was a view, or landscape of my Lord's palace, etc., at Althorpe [Map] in Northamptonshire.
Evelyn's Diary. 23 Aug 1678. Upon Sir Robert Reading's (age 38) importunity, I went to visit the Duke of Norfolk (age 50), at his new palace at Weybridge, where he has laid out in building near £10,000, on a copyhold, and in a miserable, barren, sandy place by the street side; never in my life had I seen such expense to so small purpose. The rooms are wainscotted, and some of them richly pargeted with cedar, yew, cypress, etc. There are some good pictures, especially that incomparable painting of Holbein's, where the Duke of Norfolk, Charles Brandon and Henry VIII., are dancing with the three ladies, with most amorous countenances, and sprightly motion exquisitely expressed. It is a thousand pities (as I told my [his son] Lord of Arundel (age 23), his son), that that jewel should be given away.
Evelyn's Diary. 25 Aug 1678. There was at Weybridge the [his wife] Duchess of Norfolk (age 35), [his son] Lord Thomas Howard (age 21) (a worthy and virtuous gentleman, with whom my son (age 23) was sometime bred in Arundel House [Map]), who was newly come from Rome, where he had been some time; also one of the Duke's daughters, by his first [his former wife] lady. My Lord (age 50) leading me about the house made no scruple of showing me all the hiding places for the Popish priests, and where they said mass, for he was no bigoted Papist. He told me he never trusted them with any secret, and used Protestants only in all businesses of importance.
Evelyn's Diary. 25 Aug 1678. I went this evening with my Lord Duke (age 50) to Windsor, Berkshire [Map], where was a magnificent Court, it being the first time of his Majesty's (age 48) removing thither since it was repaired.
Evelyn's Diary. 27 Aug 1678. I took leave of the Duke (age 50), and dined at Mr. Henry Bruncker's (age 51), at the Abbey of Sheene [Map], formerly a monastery of Carthusians, there yet remaining one of their solitary cells with a cross. Within this ample inclosure are several pretty villas and fine gardens of the most excellent fruits, especially Sir William Temple's (lately Ambassador into Holland), and the Lord Lisle's (age 29), son to the Earl of Leicester (age 59), who has divers rare pictures, above all, that of Sir Brian Tuke's, by Holbein.
Evelyn's Diary. 29 Aug 1678. I was called to London to wait upon the Duke of Norfolk (age 50), who having at my sole request bestowed the Arundelian Library on the Royal Society; sent to me to take charge of the books, and remove them, only stipulating that I would suffer the Herald's chief officer, Sir William Dugdale (age 72), to have such of them as concerned heraldry and the marshal's office, books of armory and genealogies, the Duke being Earl Marshal of England. I procured for our Society, besides printed books, near one hundred MSS. some in Greek of great concernment. The printed books being of the oldest impressions, are not the less valuable; I esteem them almost equal to MSS. Among them, are most of the Fathers, printed at Basil, before the Jesuits abused them with their expurgatory Indexes; there is a noble MS. of Vitruvius. Many of these books had been presented by Popes, Cardinals, and great persons, to the Earls of Arundel and Dukes of Norfolk; and the late magnificent Earl of Arundel bought a noble library in Germany, which is in this collection. I should not, for the honor I bear the family, have persuaded the Duke to part with these, had I not seen how negligent he was of them, suffering the priests and everybody to carry away and dispose of what they pleased; so that abundance of rare things are irrecoverably gone.
Evelyn's Diary. 30 Nov 1680. The signal day begun the trial (at which I was present) of my [his uncle] Lord Viscount Stafford (age 66), (for conspiring the death of the King (age 50), second son to my [his grandfather] Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Earl Marshal of England, and grandfather to the present Duke of Norfolk (age 52), whom I so well knew, and from which excellent person I received so many favors. It was likewise his birthday, The trial was in Westminster Hall [Map], before the King, Lords, and Commons, just in the same manner as, forty years past, the great and wise Earl of Strafford (there being but one letter differing their names) received his trial for pretended ill government in Ireland, in the very same place, this Lord Stafford's father being then High Steward. The place of sitting was now exalted some considerable height from the paved floor of the hall, with a stage of boards. The throne, woolsacks for the Judges, long forms for the Peers, chair for the Lord Steward, exactly ranged, as in the House of Lords. The sides on both hands scaffolded to the very roof for the members of the House of Commons. At the upper end, and on the right side of the King's state, was a box for his Majesty, and on the left others for the great ladies, and over head a gallery for ambassadors and public ministers. At the lower end, or entrance, was a bar, and place for the prisoner, the Lieutenant of the Tower of London, the ax-bearer and guards, my Lord Stafford's two daughters, the Marchioness of Winchester being one; there was likewise a box for my Lord to retire into. At the right hand, in another box, somewhat higher, stood the witnesses; at the left, the managers, in the name of the Commons of England, namely, Serjeant Maynard (age 76) (the great lawyer, the same who prosecuted the cause against the Earl of Strafford forty years before, being now near eighty years of age), Sir William Jones (age 49), late Attorney-General, Sir Francis Winnington (age 46), a famous pleader, and Mr. Treby, now Recorder of London, not appearing in their gowns as lawyers, but in their cloaks and swords, as representing the Commons of England: to these were joined Mr. Hampden, Dr. Sacheverell, Mr. Poule, Colonel Titus (age 57), Sir Thomas Lee (age 45), all gentlemen of quality, and noted parliamentary men. The first two days, in which were read the commission and impeachment, were but a tedious entrance into matter of fact, at which I was but little present. But, on Thursday, I was commodiously seated among the Commons, when the witnesses were sworn and examined. The principal witnesses were Mr. Oates (age 31) (who called himself Dr.), Mr. Dugdale (age 40), and Turberville (age 32). Oates swore that he delivered a commission to Viscount Stafford from the Pope, to be Paymaster-General to an army intended to be raised; Dugdale, that being at Lord Aston's, the prisoner dealt with him plainly to murder his Majesty; and Turberville, that at Paris he also proposed the same to him.
Evelyn's Diary. 07 Dec 1680. It was observed that all his own relations of his name and family condemned him, except his nephew, the [his son] Earl of Arundel (age 25), son to the Duke of Norfolk (age 52). And it must be acknowledged that the whole trial was carried on with exceeding gravity: so stately and august an appearance I had never seen before; for, besides the innumerable spectators of gentlemen and foreign ministers, who saw and heard all the proceedings, the prisoner had the consciences of all the Commons of England for his accusers, and all the Peers to be his judges and jury. He had likewise the assistance of what counsel he would, to direct him in his plea, who stood by him. And yet I can hardly think that a person of his age and experience should engage men whom he never saw before (and one of them that came to visit him as a stranger at Paris) POINT BLANK to murder the King (age 50): God only, who searches hearts, can discover the truth. Lord Stafford was not a man beloved especially of his own family.
Evelyn's Diary. 09 May 1683. Dined at Sir Gabriel Sylvius's and thence to visit the Duke of Norfolk (age 54), to ask whether he would part with any of his cartoons and other drawings of Raphael, and the great masters; he told me if he might sell them all together he would, but that the late Sir Peter Lely (our famous painter) had gotten some of his best. The person who desired me to treat for them was Vander Douse, grandson to that great scholar, contemporary and friend of Joseph Scaliger.
On 13 Jan 1684 Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk (age 55) died. His son [his son] Henry Howard 7th Duke of Norfolk (age 29) succeeded 7th Duke Norfolk, 25th Earl Arundel Sussex, 8th Earl Surrey, 5th Earl Norfolk, 2nd Earl Norwich, 18th Baron Mowbray, 19th Baron Segrave, 16th Baron Furnivall, 20th Baron Strange Blackmere, 17th Baron Talbot, 15th Baron Maltravers, 15th Baron Arundel, 2nd Baron Howard of Castle Rising, Earl Marshal.
[his daughter-in-law] Mary Mordaunt Duchess Norfolk (age 25) by marriage Duchess Norfolk.
Evelyn's Diary. 05 Aug 1687. I went to see Albury, now purchased by Mr. Finch (age 38) (the King's Solicitor and son to the late Lord Chancellor); I found the garden which I first designed for the Duke of Norfolk, nothing improved.
On 28 Aug 1693 [his former wife] Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk (age 50) died.
Before 1694 John Michael Wright (age 76). Portrait of Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Howard Duchess Gordon was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk and Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk.
[his daughter] Catherine Howard was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk and Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk.
[his son] Frederick Henry Howard was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk and Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk.
[his son] James Howard was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk and Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk.
[his son] George Howard was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk and Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk.
[his daughter] Frances Howard was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk and Anne Somerset Countess Norfolk.
[his daughter] Philippa Howard was born to Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk and Jane Bickerton Duchess Norfolk.
Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Son of Philip IV King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Howard 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford Duchess Norfolk 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Vere Countess of Surrey 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Trussell Countess of Oxford 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip Howard 20th Earl of Arundel 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fitzalan 18th Earl of Arundel 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Fitzalan 19th Earl of Arundel 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Percy Countess Arundel 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Fitzalan Duchess Norfolk 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Grey 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wotton Marchioness Dorset
GrandFather: Thomas Howard 21st Earl of Arundel 4th Earl of Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Dacre 3rd Baron Dacre Gilsland 7th Baron Greystoke 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Greystoke 6th Baroness Greystoke Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Dacre 4th Baron Dacre Gilsland 8th Baron Greystoke 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Talbot Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hastings Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Dacre Countess Arundel 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Leybourne
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Leybourne
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Pennington
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leybourne Duchess Norfolk
Father: Henry Howard 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hastings Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Dacre 2nd Baron Dacre Gilsland 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Dacre 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Greystoke 6th Baroness Greystoke Baroness Dacre of Gilsland 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gilbert Talbot 7th Earl of Shrewsbury 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Manners 11th Baron Ros Helmsley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne St Leger Baroness Ros of Helmsley 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Gertrude Manners Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Paston
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bridget Heydon
GrandMother: Alethea Talbot Countess Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Cavendish 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Scudamore 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cavendish 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Carrington Smith
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Smith
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Cavendish Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harwick
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Hardwick 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Pinchbeck 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Leeke of Hasland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Leeke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Vaux
Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Matthew Stewart 2nd Earl Lennox 11 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stewart 3rd Earl Lennox 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Lennox 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stewart Duke Orkney 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stewart 1st Earl Atholl 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel or Elizabeth Stewart Countess Lennox 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Sinclair Countess Atholl 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Esme Stewart 1st Duke Lennox 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Queuille Lady Aubigny
GrandFather: Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine Balsac Duchess Lennox
Mother: Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gervase Clifton 1st Baron Clifton 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Stanley 1st Baron Monteagle 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Stanley 2nd Baron Monteagle 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vaughan Baroness Grey Wilton 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Stanley 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Katherine Clifton Duchess Lennox 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Darcy 1st Baron Darcy Templehurst 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Arthur Darcy 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dousabella Tempest 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Darcy 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Carew of Beddington in Surrey 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Carew 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bryan 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Katherine Darcy 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fermor
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Fermor
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Vaux 1st Baron Vaux Harrowden
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Vaux