Thirty years before, Lord LUMLEY had inherited the fine library of his father-in-law, Henry FITZALAN, Earl of ARUNDEL, who had been a collector of choice manuscripts at a time when the reckless dispersion of monastic treasures impoverished the nation, but gave, here and there, golden opportunities to openhanded private men. When the estates of the FITZALANS came to LUMLEY—in virtue of an entail made by the Earl of ARUNDEL during Lady LUMLEY’S lifetime—the splendid succession had lost its best charm. The wife who had thus enriched him was dead, and he was childless. His wife’s sister, the Duchess of NORFOLK, was also dead, but had left a son. [Sidenote: Muniments at Norf. House (Sussex, Box 7), as cited in Tierney’s _Arundel_, p. 19.] LUMLEY sold his life interest in the broad lands, and forests, and in the famous castle of Arundel, to the next heir, but he kept the library and found one of the chief pleasures of his remaining term of life in liberally augmenting it. HENRY’S first care, after his purchase, was to have a careful catalogue made of the collection. And he soon gave evidence that he had bought the books for use; not for show. [Sidenote: _Privy Purse Book_; in _Domestic Correspondence_, JAMES I, vol. lvii, § 87, p. 4. (R. H.)] He also made many important additions, from time to time, during his three years’ ownership. Perhaps the most festive days of that brief span were the sixth of January, 1610, and the sixth of June of the same year, on both of which Whitehall again witnessed a gay tournament. [Sidenote: THE TOURNAMENTS OF 1610.] On twelfth-day, at the head of a band of knights which included LENNOX, ARUNDEL, SOUTHAMPTON, HAY, Sir Thomas SOMERSET, and Sir Richard PRESTON, HENRY kept his barriers against fifty-six assailants, and before a brilliant court, for whose pleasure the long mimic fight was diversified by the gay devices of Inigo JONES, and the graceful verses of Ben JONSON. Next day the jousting was followed by a banquet not less splendid. [Sidenote: _Chronicle of England_, p. 898. _The Speeches at Prince Henries Barriers_; and _Oberon, a Masque_. (Jonson’s _Works_, vol. v, pp. 965–974, 1st edit.)] At Whitehall,—as at Stirling sixteen years before,—the banquetting lasted seven hours, but it was enlivened by a comedy in which the ladies were not condemned to silence. In the following June, HENRY’S creation as Prince of WALES was celebrated by tiltings on a more extensive scale, as well as by masques and dances, and by an elaborate naval battle upon the Thames. But the prince himself seems to have taken more pleasure in witnessing from time to time, at Woolwich or at Chatham, the launching of real ships fitted for real warfare. Nor are indications wanting that during his ponderings on the many advices which he received of the course of public events in Europe, he had occasional presentiments that a crisis was drawing near which would make the adoption of a warlike policy to be alike the duty