SECTION VIII

Summary

Henry Howard, Chancellor of Cambridge.

Here we have omitted (to confess and amend a fault, is pardonable) how after the decease of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury (one no less willing than able on all occasions to befriend the University) dying anno 1612, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton was chosen Chancellor of Cambridge. He was son to Henry, Earl of Surrey (beheaded 1546, for a mere state nicety) and succeeded, as to his name, to his excellent parts and industry, being bred in King's College, where he attained to a degree of eminency for learning.

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Mr. George Penny.

2. He told his intimate secretary (who related it to me) that his nativity (at his father's desire) was calculated by a skilful Italian astrologer, who told him, that this his infant son should taste of much trouble in the midst of his life, even to the want of a meal's meat, but his old age should make amends for all, with a plentiful estate; which came to pass accordingly. For, his father dying in his infancy, no plentiful provision was made for him; and when his eldest brother Thomas, Duke of Norfolk was executed, his condition was much impaired: insomuch that once being in London (not overstocked with money) when his noble nephews (the Earl of Arundel, and the Lord Thomas Howard) were out of the city, and loath to pin himself on any table univited, he was fain to dine with the chair of Duke Humphrey, but other (not to say better) company, viz. reading of books in a stationer's shop in Paul's Church-yard.