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HENRY, DUKE OF NORFOLK.
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Thomas, (son and heir to Henry, Earl of Arundel,) who was Earl of Arun-del, Surrey, and Norfolk , after travelling into Italy , died at Padua , unmarried,The family honours and estate descended to Henry his brother, sixthDuke of Norfolk, who, being desirous of improving his natural abilitiesby travel, set out from London in February 1664, with his brother Edwardto visit Constantinople , in compliance with an invitation from Count Lesley,whom the Emperor Ferdinand had nominated his ambassador extraordinaryto the Sublime Porte His Lordship was received, in every city and townin his way through Germany , with the honours due to his birth and fortune.At Vienna , he was immediately presented to his Imperial Majesty, and hadthe honour of being a frequent guest with the Emperor and Empress; as con-tained in his “ relation of a journey from London to Vienna , and thence toConstantinople .”
After his Lordship’s return to England, in 1665, he was created Doctor ofthe Civil Law at Oxford , having been a munificent benefactor to that Univer sity , by his gift of the famous Marmora Arundeliana*.
Henry, seventh Duke of Norfolk, wasof Magdalen-College, Oxford , where he tookthe degree of master of arts. In his father’slife-time, he was summoned to Parliament ,by the title of Lord Mowbray, and next day,being introduced into the House of Peers ,took his place at the upper end of the Barons’bench. On the accession of James II. , hesigned the order, dated at Whitehall, forproclaiming him King of England. Andby his Majesty’s being Sovereign of the Order of the Garter , his stall, as Dukeof York, became vacant; when, at a chapter held at Whitehall, Norfolk waselected of that most noble Order, and installed at Windsor, the same year. Hewas then appointed Colonel of the twelfth regiment of foot: but, in the courseof next year, resigned his command. Bishop Burnet relates, That the Kinggiving the Duke of Norfolk the sword of state to carry before him to the ChapelRoyal, where service was to be performed, the Duke went with it as for asthe door of the Chapel, and there with a profound obeisance, made a deadhalt. Observing this, the King said to him, My lord, your father would
* Arundelian Marbles, called also the Parian from the Earl of Arundel, who procured them fromChronicle, are ancient stones on which is inscribed, the East, or from this Earl, his grandson, who, asin capital letters, a chronicle of the city of Athens, above stated, presented them to the University ofsupposed to have been engraved in the island of Oxford .