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HOWARD, LORD WILLIAM (1563–1640)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOWARD, See also:LORD See also:WILLIAM (1563–1640) , known as " Belted or Bauld (bold) Will," 3rd son of See also:Thomas Howard, 4th See also:duke of See also:Norfolk (executed in 1572), and of his second wife See also:Margaret, daughter of Lord See also:Audley, was See also:born at Audley End in See also:Essex on the 19th of See also:December 1563. He married on the 28th of See also:October 1577 See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dacre, and proceeded subsequently to the University of See also:Cambridge. Being suspected of treasonable intentions together with his See also:elder See also:brother, See also:Philip, See also:earl of See also:Arundel, he was imprisoned in 1583, 1585 and 1589. He joined the See also:church of See also:Rome in 1584, both See also:brothers being dispossessed by the See also:queen of a portion of their Dacre estates, which were, however, restored in 16oI for a See also:payment of £1o,000. Howard then took up his See also:residence with his See also:children and grandchildren at Naworth See also:Castle in See also:Cumberland, restored the castle, improved the See also:estate and established See also:order in that See also:part of the See also:country. In 1603, on the See also:accession of See also:James, he had been restored in See also:blood. In 1618 he was made one of the commissioners for the border, and performed See also:great services in upholding the See also:law and suppressing marauders. Lord William was a learned and accomplished See also:scholar, praised by See also:Camden, to whom he sent See also:inscriptions and drawings from See also:relics collected by him from the See also:Roman See also:wall, as " a singular See also:lover of valuable antiquity and learned withal." He collected a valuable library, of which most of the printed See also:works remain still at Naworth, though the See also:MSS. have been dispersed, a portion being now in the Arundel MSS. in the Royal See also:College of Arms; he corresponded with Ussher and was intimate with Camden, See also:Spelman, and See also:Cotton, whose eldest son married his daughter. He published in 1592 an edition of See also:Florence of See also:Worcester's Chronicon ex Chronicis, dedicated to Lord See also:Burghley, and See also:drew up a See also:genealogy of his See also:family, now among the duke of Norfolk's MSS. at Norfolk See also:House. He died in October 164o at Greystock, to which See also:place he had been removed when failing in See also:health to See also:escape the Scots who were threatening an advance on Naworth. He had a large family of children, of whom Philip, his See also:heir, was the grandfather of See also:Charles, 1st earl of See also:Carlisle, and See also:Francis was the ancestor of the Howards of Corby.

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