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being given over by her physicians, she sent word to the 

 queen that she had a secret of great consequence to divulge 

 before she died. The queen came to her bedside ; and having 

 ordered all her attendants to withdraw, Lady Howard re- 

 turned her Majesty, but too late, that ring from the Earl of 

 Essex, praying to be excused for not having returned it 

 sooner, since her husband had prevented her. The queen 

 retired immediately, overwhelmed with the utmost grief; she 

 sighed continually for a fortnight, without taking any nourish- 

 ment, lying in bed entirely dressed, and getting up a hundred 

 times a night. At last she died with hunger and with grief, 

 because she had consented to the death of a lover who had 

 applied to her, under such untoward circumstances, for mercy. 

 Such was the end of this most remarkable Turfite of the age. 



^^ Giles Burges (or Brydges), 3rd Baron Chandos — son of 

 Edmund the 2nd Baron and Dorothy, fifth daughter and 

 eventually co-heir of Edmund, Lord Bray — succeeded to the 

 family honours and estates in Gloucestershire, on the death 

 of his father, September 11, 1573. He married Lady Frances 

 Clinton, daughter of Edward, ist Earl of Lincoln, by whom 

 he had two daughters, Elizabeth, who married Sir John 

 Kennedy, and Catherine, who married Francis, Lord Russell, 

 of Thornhaugh, afterwards Earl of Bedford. Those ladies 

 were his heirs. He died February 21, 1593-4, and was suc- 

 ceeded in the peerage by his brother William, the 4th baron, 

 who died in 1602. 



22 The Lords Thomas and William Howard above 

 mentioned were, respectively, the elder and the second sons of 

 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, K.G., by his second 

 marriage with Margaret, daughter and heir of Thomas, Lord 

 Audlcy of Walden, of whom TllOMAS succeeded to the 

 Barony of Walden, in the right of his mother, and was after- 

 wards created Earl of Suffolk ; William (" Belted Will ") was 

 restored in blood, by Act of Parliament, in 1603. He married 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, and sister and co-heir of 

 George, Lord Dacre of Gillesland, and became in her right, 



