born on the 7th of July 1586. In 1595 his father died in
the Tower, and by his attainder his son was deprived of his titles and
lands. On the accession of James I. the former were restored to him, but
the King retained the property. Lord Arundel was created Earl of Norfolk
in 1644, and died at Padua on the 4th of October 1646.

[Illustration: ARMS OF THOMAS HOWARD, EARL OF NORFOLK.]

After his death his collections were partially dispersed; and in 1666
his printed books were presented, at the instigation of John Evelyn, to
the Royal Society by Henry Howard, afterwards sixth Duke of Norfolk, a
grandson of the Earl, while the manuscripts were divided between that
Society and the College of Arms. In 1831 the principal portion of the
manuscripts in possession of the Royal Society were transferred to the
British Museum, and the remainder, consisting of Oriental manuscripts,
in 1835. They were valued at three thousand five hundred and fifty-nine
pounds, and were paid for partly in money, and partly with duplicates of
printed books in the Museum collection. A large portion of the Earl's
library consisted of the books of Bilibaldus Pirckheimer of Nuremberg,
which he acquired during a diplomatic mission into Germany in 1636. Some
of the manuscripts, Oldys states, once formed part of the library of
Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary. The Earl of Norfolk's collections
also comprised a very large number of antique marbles, paintings, vases,
and gems.

RICHARD SMITH, 1590-1675

Richard Smith or Smyth, who was born in 1590 at Lillingston Dayrell,
Buckinghamshire, was the son of the Rev. Richard Smith of Abingdon,
Berkshire. He was sent to the University of Oxford, but did not
matriculate, and after a short stay there was removed by his parents,
and articled to a solicitor of the city of London. In 1644 he became
Secondary of the Poultry Compter, which was worth about seven hundred
pounds a year. This office he held until the death of his eldest son
John in 1655, when he sold it, and 'betook himself,' says Anthony a
Wood, 'wholly to a private life, two-thirds of which he at least spent
in his library.' He died on the 26th of March 1675, and was buried in
the Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, where a monument was erected to
his memory.

Smith was an indefatigable collector, and amassed a library of very fine
and rare books, many of which had belonged to an earlier collector,
Humphrey Dyson. These books came to Smith by mar