prince's jurisdiction of the stanneries, and now if he loose these things, is utterly undone both in reputation and fortune. And lastly, what is dearest to me of all, the world will conceave that I have small interest in his highnes' favor, when I must overthrow mine owne graunt to so well a deserving person, and bestow it on one that will never execute the place himself: and when his highnes knoweth thus much, I will humbly submitt all to his pleasure. "I beseech you let me heare from you; for I protest this matter doth much trouble me. I will ever be "Your most affectionate frend, "PEMBROKE."] 259 ANNE, COUNTESS OF ARUNDEL, [THE sister and co-heir of Thomas, last lord Dacre, married Philip earl of Arundel, who died in the Tower, Nov. 1595, under the age of forty". This lady, who was a person of some genius 3, seems to claim an interesting copy of verses which has been rescued from oblivion by Mr. Lodge, who thinks, with much probability, "that the melancholy exit of her lord produced this pathetic effusion 4." Many of her letters relating to the private concerns of her son's family, and particularly to his children, for whom she seems to have had the most affectionate regard, are preserved The charges exhibited against him were, that he had relieved several priests, that he had corresponded with cardinal Allen and Parsons the jesuit, and that he had intentions of departing from the realm without license. After having suffered a rigorous confinement in 1589, he was brought to trial before his peers, and condemned to die for the above-mentioned offences, which were lamely proved by witnesses of indifferent character; but Elizabeth thought fit to extend what was called her clemency towards him, and he was suffered to wait in the Tower for the termination of a life, shortened by the strictest austerities of his religious persuasion. A memorial of his piety carved by his own hand on the stone wall of his secluded apartment, is still to be seen. Lodge's Illustr. vol. ii. p. 329. A fac simile of this memorial is given in Archaeologia, vol. xiii. p. 70. See Brydges' Mem. p. 173. • Illustr. of Brit. Hist. vol. iii. p. 359. in the Howard papers, and are written, says Mr. Lodge, in the best style of that time, and in a strain of unaffected piety and tenderness which lets us at once into her character. She died April 13, 16304, at the age of seventy-two, and was buried at Arundel. Her son Thomas, earl of Arundel, was the famous collector, for whom Vosterman drew her portrait, which was engraved by Hollar 5. "In sad and ashie weeds I sigh, I grone, I pine, I mourne; To jeat and ebon turne. My watrie eyes, like winter's skyes, "In sable robes of night my dayes My sorrowe sees no light; my lights For now my sunne his course hath ronne, "My flocks I now forsake, that soe The lillies loth to take, that since His death presum'd to growe. ⚫ Lodge, ut sup. p. 357. Granger and Bromley have concurred in dating her engraved portrait, 1627, ælat. 69. Biog. Hist. vol. ii. p. 373. |