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e been in the service of the Archbishop. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 3: An interesting account of the sources of the manuscripts, by Montague Rhodes James, Litt. D., Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, was published in 1899 by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.] [Footnote 4: Hartshorne, _Book Rarities in the University of Cambridge_, p. 9.] [Footnote 5: Dr. Stephen Batman, one of the Archbishop's domestic chaplains, editor of _De Proprietatibus Rerum_, by Bartholomeus Anglicanus.] [Footnote 6: Robert Talbot, Rector of Haversham, Berkshire, and Treasurer of Norwich Cathedral, was the son of John Talbot of Thorpe Malsover, Northamptonshire. He was born about 1505, and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Camden calls him 'a learned antiquary,' and Lambarde describes him as 'a diligent trauayler in the Englishe hystorye.' He died in 1558, and was buried in Norwich Cathedral. His choicest manuscripts were left by him to New College.] [Footnote 7: Dr. Owen, physician to King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., and Queen Mary. He died in 1558, and was buried in St. Stephen's, Walbrook.] [Footnote 8: Vitellius D. 7.] [Footnote 9: An antiquary who resided in the Archbishop's house, and who wrote the lives in _De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae_.] HENRY FITZALAN, EARL OF ARUNDEL, 1513?-1580 Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel, was born about the year 1513. He was the only son of William Fitzalan, eleventh Earl of Arundel, K.G., by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Henry Percy, fourth Earl of Northumberland. [Illustration: THE EARL OF ARUNDEL'S DEVICE.] When fourteen years of age his father was anxious to place him in the household of Cardinal Wolsey, but he preferred to offer his service to his godfather, King Henry VIII., 'who did noblely receave him, and well esteemed of him for the same.'[10] In 1534 he was summoned to Parliament in his father's barony as Lord Maltravers,[11] and in 1536, although only twenty-three years of age, he was appointed Governor of Calais, a post he held until the death of his father in January 1544. On the 24th of April in the same year he was made a K.G., and in the following July he received the appointment of 'Marshal of the Field' in the army which invaded France. He greatly distinguished himself at the siege of Boulogne, and on his return home he was made Lord Chamberlain, which office he held until the fourth year of King Edward VI.'s reign, when, o
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