second son, Sir Francis Howard, having raised a regiment at his own proper charge, and suffered a long imprisonment in the tower. Colonel Thomas Howard, the fourth son of the Lord William, also raised a regiment for King Charles the First of sacred memory, and bravely lost his life at the head of it; having refused very advantageous conditions from the King of Portugal, who had invited him into his service, he being a soldier of long experience abroad, and much es teemed for his courage and conduct, and detained here by the com mands of his prince, whom his honour, religion, and conscience ob liged him to obey; he fell (a willing sacrifice for the service of his prince) to the rage of the rebels,

Here is also an Account of such Families as are descended from the House of Howard, taken in the Year 1660.

BY the daughter and heir of Sir John Howard, who was of the same family with the Duke of Norfolk, and married to John Vere Earl of Oxford; and descended by the heirs of Wingfield, and of Nevil Lord Latimer, the families of Wingfield now remaining, Percy Earl of Northumberland, Cecil Earl of Salisbury, Danvers late Earl of Danby, who quarters the arms of Howard; Norris late Earl of Berkshire, the Lord Pawlet of Somersetshire, and many other noble families, namely, the ancient and honourable family of the Lacies; and from John Howard first Duke of Norfolk of that name, by his daughter married to Windham, and from them by Lutterel and Rogers descended the Marquis of Hertford, the Lord Seymor, and many other ancient families in the west; and by other daughters, the families of Knivet and Gorges: from Lord Edmund Howard third son of Thomas second Duke of Norfolk is descended the Lord Arundel of Warder; from the said Thomas second Duke of Norfolk are descended first all those of the house of Nottingham and Effingham, and from them by daughters the present Marquis of Winchester, the Earls of Mulgrave and Peterborough, the Viscount Mordaunt, the Lord Fairfax, and many other eminent families. By his daughter married to the Earl of Darby, are descended at this day the Earls of Darby, Bridgewater, the Lord Stourton, Morley, Dudley, Staf ford, Shandois, Powis, and many other noble families. By his daugh ter married to Sir Rice ap Thomas, the Earls of Carbary, and many other noble families in Wales are descended.

By his daughter married to Sir Thomas Bullen Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, are descended the families of Cary Earls of Dover and Monmouth, and the Viscount Faulkland; and, by the daughter of Cary married to the family of Knowles, the Earls of Banbury, Nor thumberland, Essex, Warwick, Holland, Newport, and the Lord Paget, and many others.

From Thomas Howard third Duke of Norfolk are descended the heirs of the Lord Scroope of Nevil, Earl of Westmorland, the Lord Berkley, and the heirs of the Viscount Binden.

From Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, the present Duke of Norfolk, the Viscount Stafford, the Earls of Suffolk, Berk

shire, Carlisle, Lord Howard of Escrick, all the Howards of the north, the Earl of Dorset, the late Duke of Richmond, and by mar. riage, at present, many other noble families are nearly allied; as, the Earls of Northumberland, Bedford, Salisbury, Devonshire; the Lords Darcy, Sandys, Fairfax of Imolleth, Mac Donell, and many other ancient and honourable families are descended.

This great Duke of Norfolk, whose trial you have read, first married the daughter and heir of Fitz-Allen Earl of Arundel, by whom he had Philip, who was poisoned in the tower; the duke's second marriage was to the daughter and heir of the Lord Aud. ley, by whom he had Thomas Earl of Suffolk, and the Lord Wil. liam Howard of Naworth, who was long detained a prisoner in the tower, after the death of the duke. The duke's third marriage was to the widow of the Lord Dacres of the north, who, by the said Lord Dacres, had two daughters, Anne and Elisabeth, to whom the duke married his two sons, Philip and the Lord William Howard. Thomas, the great lord marshal (who is never to be mentioned with. out the memory of his honour) was the son of Philip Earl of Arundel, and Anne, the eldest daughter of the Lord Dacres; which Thomas married the Lady Alathea Talbot, daughter and heir to the Earl of Shrewsbury, by whom he had Henry Lord Matrevers, and William Viscount Stafford; which Henry married the Lady Elisabeth Stuart, daughter to the duke of Lenox, and the Lord Viscount Stafford married the daughter and heir of the Lord Baron Stafford. This Henry, afterwards Earl of Arundel, left eight sons and two daugh. ters; Thomas, who died at Padua, and was restored to the Duke. dom; Henry, last Duke of Norfolk; Philip lord cardinal; Charles, a person of much honour and integrity; Edward, Francis, Bernard, and Esma. Henry, who after the decease of Thomas was Duke of Norfolk, married the Lady Anne Somerset, eldest daughter to the Marquis of Worcester, and sister to the present Duke of Beaufort, by whom he had two sons, Henry, the present Duke of Norfolk, who married the Lady Mary Mordaunt, daughter to the Earl of Peterborough; and the Lord Thomas Howard, who married the daughter and heir of Sir George Savil, of the family of the Marquis of Halifax, by whom he hath issue: also the said duke had two daughters, the eldest married to the Duke of Gordon of Huntley, the youngest to the Marquis of Waperiso. Charles, the fourth son, married Mary, the eldest daughter and coheir of George Tatershall, of Hinshamstead in the county of Berkshire, Esquire, a lady of great virtue and extraordinary parts, of an ancient and honourable family (which came into England with the Saxons, and long retained the title of baron, as is recorded by many authors) by whom he hath a hopeful son, named Henry Charles Howard; Bernard married to Catharine, the younger daughter of the said George Tatershall, Esquire, who hath also issue one son, named Bernard, and three daughters. The Lady Elisabeth Teresa, the youngest sister of the last Duke of Norfolk, was married to Alexander Mac Donell, eldest son to Sir James Mac Donell, bart. and nephew to the late Marquis of Antrim, by whom she had one son, named Randal Mac Donell,

she was afterwards married to Bartholomew Russel, Esquire, of Seaton in the county of Dublin, of the family of the Earls of Bedford. The Lord Thomas Howard, afterwards Earl of Suffolk, second son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who so unfortunately lost his life for espousing the interest of the Queen of Scots, married the daugh. ter and heir of Sir Philip Tenevit; whose eldest son was married to the daughter of the Earl of Dunbar; his eldest daughter to the Earl of Salisbury, the second to the Earl of Banbury, and the third to the Earl of Somerset: the eldest had many sons and daughters; the Earl of Berkshire, being the second, married the daughter of Cecil Earl of Salisbury; the third, being Sir Robert Howard of Clun, married the daughter of Nevil Lord Abergavenny. The fourth, who was created Lord Howard of Escrick, married the daughter of the Lord Butler. One of the daughters of the said Earl of Suffolk was married to Percy Earl of Northumberland; another to Boyle Earl of Orrery; one to Villiers, and another to Walsingham; all of which had issue.

But to return to Philip, the eldest son of the Lord William How ard of Naworth, who married into the family of the Carols, by whom he left one son called William, who married the daughter of the Lord Evers, by whom he had sons and daughters; Charles the eldest son, late Earl of Carlisle, having married the daughter of the late Lord Escrick Howard, by whom he had Edward, the present Earl of Carlisle, who married the daughter and heir of Sir William Udal, by whom he hath a hopeful offspring. Also two daughters, one married to the Lord Preston, the other to Sir John Fenwick. Sir Philip Howard, brother to the late Earl of Carlisle, married the daughter of Sir William Newton, by whom he hath one son.

Sir Francis Howard, the second son of the Lord William Howard, married the daughter of Sir Henry Widrington, by whom he had heirs; Francis, his eldest son, married the daughter of Sir William Gerrard, by whom he had two daughters; and after married the daughter of John Townly, of Townly, Esquire, by whom he hath issue.

William, the youngest son of Sir Francis, married the daughter of George Dawson, Esquire, hath issue also: Thomas, the second son, having taken religious orders. His eldest son Thomas was slain in the late wars.

Sir Charles, the third son of the Lord William, married also the daughter of Sir Henry Widdrington, by whom he had heirs; William, the eldest son, being married to the daughter and heir of George Cunningham, Esquire, by whom he had one son Charles, who married the daughter of John Mear, Esquire. Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Charles Howard, married William Salone of Croxdale, in the county of Durham, and hath issue. Another daughter was religious.

Colonel Thomas Howard, the fourth son of the Lord William, who so eminently served his king, and lost his life in that service, married Margaret, daughter to Sir William Evers, second son to the Lord Evers, by whom he had one son named Thomas, and six daugh ters; Thomas married the daughter and heir of George Heron, of

Chip-Chace, Esquire, by whom he hath three daughters. Mary, the eldest daughter of Colonel Thomas Howard, married Ralph Fe therstonhalgh, of Stanhope, in the county of Durham, of an ancient family in the north; Margaret and Antonia were religious; Catharine married to Nathaniel Lacy, of Deeping, in Lincolnshire, Esquire, whose family were formerly Earls of Lincoln; and after married to Edward Lacy, of Brewry Castle, in the county of Limerick, Esquire, descended from the Earls of Ulster, in Ireland. Teresa, the youngest daughter of Colonel Thomas Howard, was married to Ralph Booth, of the county of Durham, Esquire, of an ancient family, re lated to the Lord Delamer, bearing the same name and arms, who hath issue.

Thus hath this illustrious family spread itself over the three kingdoms, and hath acquired so much glory abroad, that, in all places where nobility is known and understood, the name of Howard is honoured. Germany claims it by its original, France by alliance, and Italy by respect; having had that object of honour, Thomas, the great lord marshal among them, whose generous and noble dis. position planted such lasting obligations there, that even in these present times some of his descendants have reaped the benefit. Cou rage has been so essentially due to this great family, that never any was known of that blood, that did not possess an excessive share of that virtue, which they generally employed in the service of their prince, few of them having been in rebellion; and it is wished they may never sully themselves with so black a crime, and, as they are descended from princes, so they may unite themselves in a true obe dience to their sovereign, which is the best defence of families; no. thing being so fatal as faction and sedition, which has at all times proved a canker to consume them.

NORTH OF SCOTLAND:

With the Particulars of that whole Transaction.

London, Printed, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor, near Sta tioners-Hall, 1685. Folio, containing two pages,

SUCH are the restless practices of those disturbers of government,

the fanaticks, and their adherents, that, notwithstanding his majesty's repeated instances of pardon and indulgence, yet they continually

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endeavour to raise commotions and disturbances, though to their inevitable destruction, of which, in a late account from Scotland, we shall particularly inform the reader.

That by the last post we have advice, that three ships of war, though but of small force, were discovered from off the island of Orcades, in the north of Scotland, and touched at a bay, and put two spies a-shore, to discover the posture the country was in, and whether it was convenient to make a descent; but the vigilancy of the governor was such, that the said persons were seized and secured, who not returning at the time appointed to their ships, those on board found themselves discovered, and thereupon thought it not convenient to land any men there, but steered their course farther northwards; and, approaching to another island of the Orcades, they landed forty men in their sloops, and, surprising a small village, seized upon, and carried away four of the chief inhabitants, and brought them to their ships, and then returned to the island, which had taken two of their men, sending word to the governor, that, unless they would restore them the said two men, they would hang those they had taken at the yard-arm, and all others they should hereafter seize, but were wisely and valiantly answered, that the said governor feared them not; that, in case they offered any violence to the said persons, the like should be returned upon the Earl of Argyle's lady, brother, and relations: and, as for the two persons taken, he would not restore them, but send them forward to Edin burgh, there to be tried and punished according to their demerit. They are now brought up before the council, and examined, and

Spence, one of them, is found to be a hardened sinner, one who had already undergone the torture of the boot, and has formerly had the benefit of his majesty's most gracious pardon. They are sent prisoners to the Tolbooth, and will suddenly be tried before the lords of the justiciary, if the parliament do not take cognisance hereof themselves; and the council forthwith ordered the appre hending the earl's lady, brother, and other relations, by way of reprisal, they having certain knowledge that the Earl of Argyle, with other fugitive traitors, in the late horrid conspiracy against the king and government, were a-board. But, God be praised, their present designs are prevented, and the whole kingdom put into such a posture of defence, that they need not fear the malice of their enemies; and it is hoped by this time some of his majesty's frigates, who went in pursuit of them, have reached them, though they have taken a contrary course, and sailed towards the north of Ireland; but that kingdom also is in a like posture of defence, that they are not able to make any descent there, they being so insignificant in number and strength, unless they are infatuated with the frantick notion of the fifth monarchy men in England, that one of them would chace a hundred, and a hundred a thousand'. They displayed a blue flag, with this inscription, Pro Deo & Patria, pretending for God and their country; like the rebels, in the late times, that fought for king and parliament, when their design was to destroy both. This being a true account of the whole transaction, which I thought good