Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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The celebrated Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, was son of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel—the faithful and constant, who being persecuted for his religion, was suffered by Queen Elizabeth to languish in the Tower, where he died in 1595—and great-grandson of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, the accomplished nobleman who was beheaded in 1547 by the Nero of the Tudor race. Thomas Howard was restored, as your readers know, to the earldom of Arundel by James I., and in the reign of that king and of Charles I., who held him in veneration, received other honours and employments, but was yet more distinguished by his munificent patronage of the arts and of learning. He is called the only great subject of the northern parts, who by his conversation and great collections set a value upon transalpine lands; and he began about 1614 to decorate with the precious and costly works of art which he had collected in Greece and in his beloved Italy, the gardens and galleries of his quaint old palace in London, called Arundel House.
The Royal Society had held their meetings since the Fire of London at Arundel House; and John Evelyn, Esq., author of the Sylva , one of the founders of the society, observing in 1667
these precious monuments miserably neglected, and scattered up and down about the garden and other parts of Arundel House, and how exceedingly the corrosive air of London impaired them,
induced this nobleman, then Mr. Henry Howard, to bestow on the University of Oxford