202 HOWARD. HOWARD OF CASTLE RISING. i.e., "HOWARD or GaSTLB Rjsixi:, 9a. Norfolk," Barony (ffawaft), or, IStfO. Sec ■• Norfolk," Dukedom cr. H88, tllidw tile Oth ;1677-S I Puke ; (together with the Earldom of Norwich}, 1777. HOWARD OF GHARLETON. i.e., "Howard or CnAniiETO^, Wilts," Barony (lloward), cr. 1G-2, with the Viscoiwti-y of Axdoyeh. See " Bkhkshihe " Earldom, cr. 1028. HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM. /.<?., "Howard ui' Em>'uUAH, co. Surrey," Baronj, cr. 13/B. Sec under •' Efuxuu am." HOWARD OF ESCRICK. Barony. / gut EdWAKD HOWARD, of Escrudc, eo. Sfopfc, 8th I. 1628. nod yst. s. of Thomas, let ICaki. of Sitkoms, by his 2d wife, Catha- rine, da. anil coheir of Sir Henry Knyvktt, of Cbarleton, Wilts, was made K.B. •'! Nov. 1616, and having inherited the estate ol ISgerick, thro' his Ulother (iiicce to Thomas, li, o.v K.fYVETT ok ESCBll'K, who </. s.p. 1622), and having in. 30 Nov. 102:i, at York House, in the Strand, Mnrv, 6th da. of John (Botfxkii 1st l.OUD BoTELER ok Biiantfield, by Klizibeth, da. of Sir George Yillikiis,, and sister to the well known Hi kk of BVCKIXQHAM, was. thro' his Grace's powerful influence, cr. 12 April ir.ii*. BAliON HOWAIID OF KSCKICK, co. York, taking his seat on the Mtli He, however, according to Lord Clarendon's history, "delivered himself up body and soul to b.' disposed of by that party most averse and obnoxious to the Court and Government," and was one of the three Peers elected by the people, when the Commons declared themselves supreme, taking his seat 5 May 1619, as M.P. fur Carlisle. On 25 June, 1651, he was disabled by Pari, (for taking bribes from wealthy "delinquents"), lined £10,000, and committed to the Tower, but was released next year. His wife, whom he long survived, was bur.. SQ Jan. 1638/4, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. He (t 21 April 1 67a, and was bur. 5 May, at St. Mary-le-Savoy. Strand. Will dat. 22. and pr. 26 April 1070. 1 1 ) II. 107-5. Thomas (Howard), Baron Howard of Esciuck, s. ami h. bap. 24 (let. 1625, at SafTron Walden. ^Yas an officer in the 1st foot Guards, and as such was scut into Flanders to assist the Spanish. He sue. to the parage 21 April 1675. He M. firstly, Elizabeth, da. of John (Moudacnt), 1st ICahl OF Peterborough, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of William (HOWARD), Baiion HOWARD OF Kpfisgham. lie in. secondly, Jane, da. of (— ) Drake, of co. Somerset. He d. s.p.s., at Bruges, 24 Aug. 107S, and was bur. 21 Sep. following, at St. Martin's- iu-the-Fields. His widow was bar. there 12 Aug. 1716. Will dat. lfi May and pr. 5 Oct. 1716. III. 1678. -J. William ^Howard), Baron Howard up Escuick, br. and h,. ; mat. at Corpus, Cambridge, 1016 ; was some time a trooper iu Cromwell's Life Guards and an Anabaptist preacher/'*) but, intriguing with the exiled King, was imprisoned 13 July 1058. After the Restoration he was M.P. in the Convention Pari, for Winchelsea ; sue. to the peerage 24 Aug. 1078, taking his seat 7 Nov. 1078 ; was instrumental in procuring credit for the accusations of the infamous Titus Oatea, thus farthering the trial of his owu kinsman, Lord Stafford. He himself was in the liye House Plot, and turned informer against ( a ) He was, in Sep. 1010, one of the 16 " popular " noblemen deputed by the King to treat with the Soots. See list of these, vol. hi , p. 286, uoto " b," sub. " Essex." ( b ) See '• Clusters of Chichekg " (by K. E. Chester Waters), p. 119 where there is u good account of these Barons.
