ae. Henricus Howardus Comes Northamptoniae filius
secundo genitus, hoc supremum pietatis in parentes monumentum posuit,
A.D. 1614.

Upon the accession of Queen Mary the attainder was taken off his
father, which circumstance has furnished some people with an
opportunity to say, that the princess was fond of, and would have
married, the Earl of Surry. I shall transcribe the act of repeal as I
find it in Collins's Peerage of England, which has something singular
enough in it.

'That there was no special matter in the Act of Attainder, but only
general words of treason and conspiracy: and that out of their care
for the preservation of the King and the Prince they passed it, and
this Act of Repeal further sets forth, that the only thing of which he
stood charged, was for bearing of arms, which he and his ancestors had
born within and without the kingdom in the King's presence, and sight
of his progenitors, as they might lawfully bear and give, as by good
and substantial matter of record it did appear. It also added, that
the King died after the date of the commission; likewise that he only
empowered them to give his consent; but did not give it himself; and
that it did not appear by any record that they gave it. Moreover, that
the King did not sign the commission with his own hand, his stamp
being only set to it, and that not to the upper part, but to the
nether part of it, contrary to the King's custom.'

Besides the amorous and other poetical pieces of this noble author, he
translated Virgil's AEneid, and rendered (says Wood) the first, second,
and third book almost word for word:--All the Biographers of the
poets have been lavish, and very justly, in his praise; he merits the
highest encomiums as the refiner of our language, and challenges the
gratitude and esteem of every man of literature, for the generous
assistance he afforded it in its infancy, and his ready and liberal
patronage to all men of merit in his time.

[Footnote 1: Dugdale's Baronage.]

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Sir THOMAS WYAT.

Was distinguished by the appellation of the Elder, as there was one of
the same name who raised a rebellion in the time of Queen Mary. He
was son to Henry Wyat of Alington-castle in Kent. He received the
rudiments of his education at Cambridge, and was afterwards placed at
Oxford to finish it. He was in great esteem with King Henry VIII. on
account of his wit and Love Elegies, pieces of poetry in which