The latest notice we have of the Earl of ARUNDEL, from the hand of any eminent contemporary, occurs in the Diary of John EVELYN, and is dated six months before the Earl’s death. [Sidenote: DEATH AT PADUA, 1646.] In June of the preceding year (1645) EVELYN had paid a visit to Lord ARUNDEL at his house in Padua, and had then accompanied him to a famous garden in that city known as the ‘Garden of Mantua.’ [Sidenote: Evelyn, _Diary_, vol. 1, p. 212.] They had also explored together some ancient ruins lying near the Palace of Foscari all’ Arena. When EVELYN renewed his visit in March, 1646, the Earl was no longer able to leave the house. [Sidenote: _Ibid._, pp. 218, 219.] ‘I took my leave of him,’ says the diarist, ‘in his bed, where I left that great and excellent man in tears, on some private discourse of crosses that had befallen his family, particularly the undutifulness of his grandson, Philip, turning Dominican friar; and the misery of his country, now embroiled in civil war. He caused his gentleman to give me directions, written with his own hand, what curiosities I should inquire after in my journey; and so—enjoyning me to write sometimes to him—I departed.’ The Earl died at Padua on the 24th September, 1646, having entered into the sixty-second year of his age. In compliance with the directions of his Will his remains were brought to England and buried at Arundel. It remains only to add a few particulars of the character and sources of the splendid collections which the Earl of ARUNDEL, by the persistent labours and the lavish expenditure of more than thirty years, had amassed. The surviving materials for such an account are, however, very fragmentary. [Sidenote: NOTICES OF THE ARUNDELIAN COLLECTIONS.] Those which are of chief interest occur in the correspondence which passed between the Earl and Sir Thomas ROE during the embassy of that eminent diplomatist to the Ottoman Porte in the years 1626–1628. The Earl’s zeal as a collector, and the public attention which his personal successes in that character during his Italian travels had soon attracted, naturally excited a like ambition on the part of several of his contemporaries. Conspicuous in this respect were his brother-in-law the Earl of PEMBROKE, and his political rival and enemy the Duke of BUCKINGHAM. ARUNDEL’S success in amassing many fine pictures had, in like manner, already attracted the attention of Prince CHARLES to that peculiarly fascinating branch of collectorship. [Sidenote: CORRESPONDENCE WITH SIR THOMAS ROE.]