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dently racers, are mentioned, as they were (when in 

 training) fed with bread. 



Lord WilHam Howard, better known as " Belted 

 Will," was the third son of Thomas, fourth Duke of 

 Norfolk, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter 

 and heir of Sir Thomas Audley, of Walden. He w^as 

 born December 19, 1563; educated at Cambridge, 

 and married Lady Elizabeth Dacre, October 28, 1577. 

 As to his early manhood and subsequent career during 

 the reign of Queen Elizabeth, we need not stop to 

 record, suffice it here to state that he took up his 

 residence at Naworth Castle early in the seventeenth 

 century, and from that time until his death it was 

 his chief residence, and the place around which there 

 has been such an outgrowth of traditions respecting 

 him. 



These traditions present him to our view in a 

 picturesque and romantic aspect, and additional vitality 

 has been given to them by the graphic portrait which 

 Sir Walter Scott has drawn in his " Lay of the Last 

 Minstrel," of the outward Q-arb and the oallant bearinor 

 of the Lord William Howard as Lord Warden of the 

 Marches, though for the purposes of his story the poet 

 antedated his existence and assigned to him an office 

 which he never filled. 



It is somewhat uncertain when the soubi'iquet of 

 " Belted Will " became attached to him ; a broad 

 leathern belt, studded with a series of letters in metal, 

 arranged so as to form a verse in German, used to be 

 shown at Naworth as having belonged to him. Hence 

 probably originated the name, to which Sir Walter's 



