ollection of books, many of which had once
been the property of Archbishop Cranmer. An account of this mansion is
given in the manuscript Life of Lord Arundel, to which we have already
alluded, and it also contains a reference to his library. 'This Earle
moreover continewed allwayes of a greate and noble mynde. Amonge the
number of whose doings, that past in his tyme, this one is not the
least, to showe his magnificence, that perceivinge a sumptuous house
called Nonsuche to have bene begon, but not finished, by his first
maister Kinge Henry the eighte, and thearfore in Quene Maryes tyme,
thoughte mete rather to have bene pulled downe and solde by peacemeale
then to be perfited at her charges, he, for the love and honour he bare
to his olde maister, desired to buye the same house, by greace, of the
Quene, for wch he gave faire lands unto her Highnes; and having the
same, did not leave till he had fullye finished it in buildings,
reparations, paviments and gardens, in as ample and perfit sorte as by
the first intente and meaninge of the saide Kinge his old maister, the
same should have bene performed, and so it is nowe evident to be
beholden of all strangers, and others, for the honour of this Realme as
a pearle thereof. The same he haith lefte to his posterity, garnished
and replenished with riche furnitures; amonge the wch his Lybrarye is
righte worthye of remembrance.'

Lord Arundel left Nonsuch, with its library and furniture, together with
the greater part of his estates, to his son-in-law, Lord Lumley.

There are portraits of the Earl of Arundel by Holbein and Sir Anthony
More. That by Holbein, which is in the collection of the Marquis of
Bath, is engraved in Lodge's _Portraits of Illustrious Personages_.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 10: MS. Life of the Earl of Arundel, evidently written by one
of his most intimate servants, probably a chaplain.--_Royal MSS._, 17 A
ix., British Museum.]

[Footnote 11: _Complete Peerage of England, etc._ Edited by G.E.C.]

[Footnote 12: 'Th' erle of Arrundel committed to his house for certaine
crimes of suspicion against him, as pluking downe of boltes and lokkes
at Westminster, giving of my stuff away, etc., and put to a fine of
12,000 pound to be paide a 1000 pound yerely, of which he was after
released.'--_Journal of King Edward VI._, Cotton MSS., C. x., British
Museum.]

[Footnote 13: Strype, _Annals_ (London, 1709), i. 413.]

SIR THOMAS SMITH, 1513-1577

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