yet no successor of mine will ever be able to do so; for which reason
I have dispatched him in my own time."

He was first interred in the chapel of the Tower, and afterwards in
the reign of King James, his remains were removed to Farmingam in
Suffolk, by his second son Henry Earl of Northampton, with this
epitaph.

Henrico Howardo, Thomæ secundi Ducis Norfolciæ filio primogenito.
Thomæ tertii Patri, Comiti Surriæ, & Georgiani Ordinis Equiti Aurato,
immature Anno Salutis 1546 abrepto. Et Franciscæ Uxoris ejus, filiæ
Johannis Comitis Oxoniæ. Henricus Howardus Comes Northamptoniæ 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