. Historical portraits ... m, was the son of Thomas Howard,second Duke of Norfolk, and was constantly employed in the latteryears of Henry VHI both in diplomacy and war. In the reign ofEdward VI he was for one year Captain of Calais, and was theprotector of Mary against the wiles of Northumberland in thesummer of 1553. That Queen created him High Admiral, andhe defended the city of London valiantly against Sir ThomasWyatt. He was sent in command of the English fleet to fetch thePrince of Spain to marry Mary, and would have been more trustedby the Queen than he was in her later years had he not
. Historical portraits ... m, was the son of Thomas Howard,second Duke of Norfolk, and was constantly employed in the latteryears of Henry VHI both in diplomacy and war. In the reign ofEdward VI he was for one year Captain of Calais, and was theprotector of Mary against the wiles of Northumberland in thesummer of 1553. That Queen created him High Admiral, andhe defended the city of London valiantly against Sir ThomasWyatt. He was sent in command of the English fleet to fetch thePrince of Spain to marry Mary, and would have been more trustedby the Queen than he was in her later years had he not been sucha resolute champion of the rights of succession of the PrincessElizabeth. He was so disgusted with the bloodshed of the last yearof Mary that he resigned his office of Admiral. Under Elizabethhe negotiated the peace with France in 1559 and, though a faithfulCatholic, valiantly took the royal side against the rebel earls in1569, thus closing a public life of unblemished loyalty by a supremeexercise of that
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