King James could only come there -Gravioraque tela mereri Fluminis, et summas libavit vertice cristas. Ibid. v. 585. The king of Persia again passed the Euphrates, and, dismissing the ambassadors of Tiberius, arrogantly commanded them The stubborn spearmen still made good to await his arrival at Cæsaria, the metro- Their dark, impenetrable wood. C. 6. polis of Cappadocia. Gibbon, viii. 46. Intorno allo stendardo tutto bianco Par che quel pian di lor lance s'inselve. Il Fur. C. 10. Our readers recollect the quarrel between Marmion and Douglas, in the court-yard of the latter, where We have done now with only two Marmion gives him the lie, and poems of one author, but we have dashes across the drawbridge just as taken out a search-warrant against it was ordered to be raised, in order all; and shall proceed with the next to prevent his escape. He then joins opportunity in our restoration of the his band, and turning round, sends works of art to Italy, or wheresoback a loud defiance to the Douglas. a ever else they may belong—not that Lord Marmion turn'd,-well was his we make any charge (for we leave our readers to judge of the cases need, And dash'd the rowels in his steed, where it might justly be made), or Like arrow through the archway sprung, suppose ourselves to be correcting The ponderous grate behind him rung : what is amiss; but merely that we To pass there was such scanty room think our readers may be amused The bars descending razed his plume. with seeing the great poets of our C. 6. own and of other times, and of our Hæc audax etiamnum in limine retro own and of other countries, in their Vociferans, jam tunc impulsa per agmina most eminent passages, talking “a præceps, leash of languages at once," and sucEvolat. Stat. Theb. ii. 467. cessively improving upon each other. SONG. 'Twas not when early flowers were springing, When skies were sheen, And wheat was green, From green to yellow, When fields were fallow, Instead of flowers And sunny hours, When all is bright, And hearts are light, J. CONDER. SONNET. Alternate watch at Nature's altar,-deep And full of mystery the course ye keep, The oracles of Nature, and from sleep Enchanted, bid her infant beauties peep. And makest in part the bright fruition thine, The meaning shut in every bud and grain. J. CONDRR. ADDITIONS TO LORD QRFORD'S ROYAL AND NOBLE AUTHORS. No. VII. PHILIP HOWARD, EARL OF ARUNDEL. The claim of this nobleman to à destre and Maltravers; and, by a place in Lord Orford's literary list special act of parliament which pass, has been entirely overlooked till the ed the Lords' house, March 10, and present moment, although his name, the Commons', March 14, 1580, + he as well as his sufferings for his reli- was restored in blood. In the folgious opinions, will be found in every lowing year, we find him principal history of Elizabeth and her reign. challenger at tilt, together with Lord He was the son of Thomas, Duke of Windsor, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sir Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Fitz- Fulke Grevile, at the entertainments Alan, daughter of Henry, Earl of given to the French ambassadors, Arundel, whom he succeeded in who came to treat concerning the 1579-80, being summoned in the par- marriage of Elizabeth with the Duke liament, holden at Westminster, of Anjou. In less, however, than January 16, 22 Eliz. as Earl of four years, he had lost the confidence Arundel, by descent and tenure. As of his Sovereign, through the secret grandson and heir to Fitz-Alan, Earl accusations (as Camden would insi, of Arundel, he acquired the baronies nuateş) of some great persons ; alof Fitz-Alan, Warren, Clun, Oswal- though the real cause was, doubtless, • He was called Earl of Arundel, as owner of Arundel castle, by desceni from his mo. ther ; it having been anciently adjudged in parliament to be a local dignity, so that the possessors thereof should enjoy that title of honour. Dugdale, Baronage, vol. ii. p. 276, b. In a letter from Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York, to Talbot, earl of Shrews. bury, dated March 5, 1579, his accession to his new title is thus mentioned—“ The earle of Arundel is deade, and the duke's sonne, com only called the earle of Surry, is now named the earle of Arundel, it falleth unto him by inherytance." Lodge's Ilustrations of British History, vol. ii. p. 223. Dudgale's Summons to Parl. p. 528. † Journals of the House of Commons, vol. ii. pp. 133, 134. Journals of the Lords, vol. ii. p. 48. Camdeni, Annales Eliz. ed. Hearne, p. 371. Š Ibid. p. 433, “occultis præpotentium quorundam insimulationibus,” are the his. torian's words; and it would seem that Leicester and Walsingham were the nobles alluded to, those two statesmen being accused by the Catholics of practising various artifices and unworthy snares in order to entrap them; amongst others, forged letters in the name of Mary Queen of Scotland were left privily in the houses of suspected persons, and then adduced in evidence against them, by spies and informers hired for the purpose. Dug. dale's Baronage, ii. 276, b. Camden, ut supra. Dec, 1823, 2 Ř his attachment to the Roman Catholic without licence. It was in vain that religion, and his intimacy with many the Earl protested his obedience to of its most zealous professors. Fall- the Queen, and his love to his couning under Elizabeth's suspicion * he try; that he excused himself by was first called before the council, pleading his affection to the Catholic and, although it seems he cleared religion, and his ignorance of the himself from the specific charges ad- laws; he was deemed guilty of all duced against him, was afterwards the charges, and sentenced to pay a ordered to confine himself to his own fine of 10,0001. and to be imprisoned house. After submitting to this par- during her Majesty's pleasure. tial loss of liberty for about six For the space of three years or months, the restriction was removed, more, his lordship remained in a and we find him attending in his confinement, not of the most rigorous place in parliament, as well as wait- nature, for his friends were permitted ing on the Queen; but, as he himself to visit him; nor was he prohibited complains, † he 'had been released from the attendance of persons of his without hearing any just cause of own persuasion, some of whom, as her Majesty's hard conceipt, or any it afterwards appeared, sought his good colour why he had been com- confidence only to betray him. Nor mitted, or but the shadow of a fault was an opportunity of completing his with which he might be touched. ruin long wanting. When the Spa Having now, in some measure, nish Armada entered the Channel, learned, from these first fruits of Eli Lord Arundel made use of certain zabeth's displeasure, the rigorous incautious expressions, intimating treatment he might anticipate upon that the defeat of his enemies was at incurring her anger a second time, hand; and it was even stated that he Lord Arundel resolved to seek that caused a mass to be performed for its safety in a foreign land, which he success. These things were not lost on was well aware must be denied in his his enemies, nor long concealed from own to one so firmly attached to the the Queen, whose displeasure being proscribed religion, and so ill able to again excited, the unfortunate Earl dissemble that attachment, as him- was made close prisoner, and treated self. After writing a letter to her with all the rigour and severity due Majesty, in which he excuses the step to a state-criminal and a fallen fahe was about to take, of departing vourite. He was soon after arraignwithout the royal permission, confesses ed of high treason, and tried on the his devotion to the Roman Catholic 14th of April, 1589, in Westminsterreligion, and declares the dangers to hall, before twenty-five of his peers, which he considers himself exposed the Earl of Derby acting as High in England, he prepared in April, Steward. I His lordship, as we 1585) to pass over into France, and learn from the records of his trial, might probably have escaped, but for “appeared in a wrought velvet gown, the treachery of some of his own furred with martins, laid about with servants, through whose means he gold lace, and buttoned with gold was apprehended in an obscure part buttons, a black sattin doublet, a of the Sussex coast, and conveyed pair of velvet hose, and wearing a prisoner to the Tower. The next high black hat. He was moreover a step pursued by his implacable mis- very tall man, somewhat swarthy, tress was to commence proceedings and when required to hold up his against him in the Star-chamber, hand, he raised it very high, saying, where he was charged with having Here is as true a man's heart and supported Romish priests ; having hand, as ever came into this hall." S held intelligence with Cardinal Alan, The trial was conducted, as most and Parsons the Jesuit; having trials in those days were accustomed publicly questioned, in writing, the to be, with more of ceremony than justice of the kingdom ; and, finally, justice: in addition to the points on it was objected against him, that he which he had before been convicted had intentions of departing the realm in the Star-chamber, and for which * Stow's Annales, by Howes, ed. folio, 1615, p. 703, b. + In his Letter to Queen Elizabeth. # State Trials, ed. folio, vol. i. p. 158. § Ibid. he had then suffered four years' in- derations, and his behaviour was not carceration, there were five other unbecoming the primitive ages of articles ; such as having assisted Car- Christianity ;” in proof of which it dinal Alan in his attempts to re-esta- has been asserted, that towards the blish popery; saying that the Queen close of his life, the Queen offered was unfit to govern; procuring mass him his pardon, his liberty, restorato be said for the Spaniards ; intend- tion of his titles and estates, and the ing to withdraw in order to serve company of his wife and child, on under the Duke of Parma; and being condition that he would embrace the privy to the bull of Pope Sixtus V, doctrines of the established church: transferring the Queen's dominions it is hardly necessary to add that her to Philip King of Spain. The evi- Majesty's overtures were unsuccessdence in support of these charges was ful, and that he died, as he had lived, of the worst description; and after in the sincere profession of the faith every attempt to prove the matters for which he had so long and so severeobjected against him, by the admis- ly suffered. Lord Arundel breathed sion of even childish and ridiculous his last on the 19th of October, 1595, assumptions, the only charge of high in the 40th year of his age, nearly treason that could be fixed upon his eleven years of which he had spent lordship was that of being reconciled in confinement. to the church of Rome, on which he It is singular that, till the present was unanimously found guilty, and moment, the name of this illustrious sentenced to be beheaded. When found nobleman should never have been guilty, he besought them to inter- connected with the literature of his cede with the Queen for the payment country, although he was undoubtedof his debts, and that his wife and ly a man of learning, the translator infant son (whom he had never seen, of one learned work, and the author he having been born during his im- of a poem of considerable merit, - prisonment) might be permitted to which, till the writer of this article visit him; and when sentence was was fortunate enough to discover it, passed, he merely said in a low tone, has been entirely unnoticed. His Fiat voluntas Dei ! lordship's claim to a place in the As Lord Arundel had been con- work of Lord Orford rests upon the victed on matters of a religious na- following catalogue of his works. ture alone, the Queen did not think proper to carry the sentence of the 1. An Epistle or Exhortation of Iesus peers into execution: she contented Christ to the Soule, that is deuoutly af. herself with suffering him to pine fected towards him. V Vherein, are căaway the remainder of his days in tained certaine diuine inspiratios, teaching imprisonment; and there is every him in the perfection of true piety. V Vrit a man to know himself, and instructing reason to believe that his time was ten in Latin by the deuout seruant of principally employed in religious me Christ, Ioannes Lanspergius a Charter. ditation and the austerities of Catho- house monke. And translated into English lic devotion. “ He had," says Dod,+ by the Lord Philip late Earle of Arundell. a soul superior to all human consi- 1. H. S. Permissu Superiorum M.DC.X. Some of these, which the crown lawyers brought forward in order to substantiate their charges, were, that certain priests being prisoners in Newgate, reported that they hoped to see the Earl of Arundel king of England--that when news was brought to the Tower, that the Spaniards sped well, then the Earl would be merry-when news came that the English fleet sped well, the Earl would be sorry : &c. &c. My lord (says the reporter of his trial) grew into some agony, and called for his accusers face to face, which the learned counsel did not yet yield unto.” When Shelley and Bennet (a priest) were afterwards brought forward, the former being adjured by the prisoner to speak nothing but the truth, would give no evidence at all, and the latter, on whose testimony alone rested the story of mass having been said for the Spaniards, had written & letter to the earl, entreating his pardon for what he had declared before the council, and acknowledging that his confession had been extorted by fear of the rack. This letter unfortunately fell into the hands of the ministers, so that Lord Arundel was unable to make use of it when he was about to invalidate Bennet's testimony : and on testimony such as this was he convicted. + Church History of England. Brussels, 1739, p. 37. Lanspergius, surnamed Justus, the “ Aloquia Iesu Christi ad animam author of the original treatise, was a fidelem," was printed separately at native of Lansperg or Landsberg, in Lovain, in 1572, and at Paris, in Upper Bavaria ; he was educated in 1578, both in 8vo. Lord Arundel's the university of Cologne, where he translation is dedicated by J. W., became a monk of the Carthusian priest, to the reverend mother and order, and was finally appointed prior devout poore sisters of the holy order of Juliers, where he died in 1539. of St. Clare, in the first English conPetreius gives a very interesting ac- vent erected in Graveling, and the count of him, * and enumerates seve- publisher says, that it is now the ral of his works, which were very third time printed,” although no earnumerous, consisting chiefly of para- lier edition has yet been discovered, phrases on the Epistles and Gospels, nor we believe any other copy of that and other religious treatises, many of of 1610, except one in the library of which were collected by Bruno Loher the late Mr. Bindley, from which the and printed in folio, 1555. The present account was taken. * . In his Bibliotheca Cartusiana, 1609 ; and there is another life of him prefixed to his Paraphrases Catholicæ, 1554, in which the titles of no less than thirty-seven pieces are given : prefixed to this rare volume is a singular piece of metrical biography, entitledEPIGRAMMA IN LAUDEM DE IOANNIS IUSTI LANSPERGIA. Justus Ioannes claro Lanspergius ortu Bavariam studiis excoluit patriam, Justus uterque parens, justus et ipse fuit. Æthereum niveo pectore trivit iter. Illecebras fugiens Carthusiam petiit. Prædulces epulas viribus effugiens. Hæreticis terror dæmonibusque fuit. Sydereo clypeo vicerat omne scelus. Præbebant, nec non fortia scripta virum. Ante oculos semper virgo sacrata stetit. Quam Deus immenso misit ab axe pater. Quin properet mensæ sacra parare Dei: Sed linguæ valido fræna labore parat. Attamen infracta mente pharetra tulit. Spicula lascivæ sprevit amara dee. Scripturæ nitido pervolat ore locos: Sedula lustrat apis, dulcia mella legens. Inversum, mortis sæpe diem petiit. Petreius gives a very amiable character of him, and speaks of the high estimation in which he was held for his learning, exemplary conduct, and the severities of his devotion. Of the latter he takes notice, that besides vigils, fastings, scourgings, and other the most rigid exercises of monastic discipline, " aliquamdiu etiam loricam ferream ad nudam carnem circa renes occultè portavit ;” and so anxious was he to obey his superiors, and so little regardful of his own feelings, that although his priory was in a damp and unwholesome situation, and one in which he knew his health must give way, he not only accepted the office, but never once expressed his wish to be removed, although it was what most about him knew to be his most earnest desire. |