The Arundelian Marbles are a series of ancient sculptured marbles discovered by William Petty, who explored the ruins of Greece at the expense of and for Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel, who lived in the time of James I and Charles I, and was a liberal patron of scholarship and art. After the Restoration they were presented by the grandson of the collector to the University of Oxford. Among them is the Parian Chronicle, a chronological account of the principal events in Grecian, and particularly in Athenian history, during a period of 1318 years, from the reign of Cecrops (1450 BC) to the archonship of Diognetus (264 BC). Research Arundelian Marbles
The Arundel Society was a society instituted in London in 1848 for promoting the knowledge of art by the publication of facsimiles and photographs. Research Arundel Society
Earl is now the third order in the nobility, but originally the first. The rank was introduced into Britain by the Danes, and the earl became a district administrator appointed by the king. For several centuries it was customary for earls to take their titles from the counties they administered, and for the king to make grants of land in the counties. The premier earldom is really that of Arundel, but as this is now united with the dukedom of Norfolk the senior earldom is that of Shrewsbury, which was created in 1442. The earl's mantle has three rows of ermine on the cape. His coronet is a circle of silver gilt, with eight silver balls on points and golden strawberry leaves between the points. The cap is the same as for the senior ranks.
When William the Conqueror invaded Britain he tried to replace the rank of Earl with that of Count, but was unsuccessful though the wife of an earl does bear the title of countess.
Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton was an English colonist. He was born in 1573 and died in 1624. He was active in the colonization of America, sending, among others, expeditions under Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602, and under LordArundel in 1605. He was treasurer (i. e., president) of the Virginia Company from 1620. Research Henry Wriothesley
Richard Cumberland was an English dramatist. He was born in 1732 at Cambridge and died in 1811. After studying at Westminster and Cambridge he became private secretary to LordHalifax, who bestowed on him a few years later a clerkship of reports in the office of trade and plantations. After one or two failures in writing for the stage, his West Indian, brought out by Garrick in 1771, proved eminently successful, and it was followed by the less popular Fashionable Lover, The Choleric Man, The Note of Hand, and The Battle of Hastings. In 1775 he became secretary to the board of trade, and in 1780 was employed on a mission to Lisbon and Madrid, but failing to satisfy the ministry was compelled to retire. His subsequent works include his Anecdotes of Spanish Painters, the Observer, the novels of Arundel, Henry and John de Lancaster, the poem of Calvary, the Exodiad (in conjunction with Sir James Bland Burgess), a poem called Retrospection, and the Memoirs of his own Life. He also edited the London Review. Research Richard Cumberland
Robert Southwell was an English Jesuit priest and poet. He was born in 1561 at Horsham St Faith, Norwich and died in 1595. Educated at Dousai and Paris, in 1577 he was received into the Society of Jesus at Rome where he became prefect of the English college. He was ordained as a priest in 1584, and returned to England in 1587 to minister his col-religionists in defiance of the Act excluding English-born Roman Catholic priests from the kingdom. He became chaplain to the countess of Arundel, but in 1592 was betrayed and was imprisoned in the Tower of London where he was tortured, including suffering thirteen separate sessions on the rack, before being hanged at Tyburn on February the 21st 1595. Research Robert Southwell
Wenzel Hollar (also known as Wenceslaus Hollar) was a Bohemian engraver. He was born in about 1607 at Prague and died in 1677. He accompanied the Earl of Arundel, the British ambassador to the German emperor, to London, who employed him to engrave some of the pictures of his collection. Among his numerous works, which are esteemed for their delicate, firm, and spirited execution, and which number some 2740 plates, are a set of twenty-eight plates, entitled Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus, representing the dresses of Englishwomen of all ranks and conditions in full-length figures; Holbein's Dance of Death, etc. Research Wenzel Hollar
William Chillingworth was an English divine. He was born in 1602 at Oxford and died in 1644. He was educated at Trinity College, where metaphysics and theology were his favourite pursuits. Subtle reasoning on authority and infallibility led him for a time into the Roman Catholic Church, but he afterwards returned to the English Church, and published in 1638 a great work in justification of himself, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation. He was made Chancellor of the bishopric of Salisbury, and on the outbreak of the English Civil War supported the king's cause and was made prisoner at the surrender of Arundel Castle. Sermons and other works were also published by him, but his Religion of Protestants, which formed an epoch in English theology, is what has given him lasting fame. Research William Chillingworth
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