[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, on a false and ridiculous charge of abusing the privileges of his
post to enrich himself and his friends, he was deprived of it, and fined
twelve thousand pounds, eight thousand pounds of which was afterwards
remitted.[12]
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