After Ms ^sepond ’ rpei ^ejfKg- went' 'o ^ ^Q ^ e - a rm y in "France, to\se|V| under
Wallop.’ In 1 ,^44'^ /,agairiVse^K&^«&aIwar iiSj^icej'under
fa tte r,» ^ p .u ie 'of !NprfalÉ| whence was appointed marshal o i ^ e army. In
he wa' ipjxiïnT* fi < nmnunvlf r el Bo]4f,,_n . ndfth^re.distinguished- hum,
self by his •vigour' aud ^ couragem m havingjbferai .defeated in an * en&age^icnt
v^th"the”*FrehVJv he ^eoi&a’ to have sunk in the king’s ^favour, ;ami he was
shortly; afterwards '’‘--recalled and superseded byi-the earl -of- HStfordb^fter
his*~retarato ’England, he irritated his enemies by the* frefiüèncy oShis expres-
sibns^;of^?disc5Bt^if‘fandleariy in 1547 he was imprisoned at j"^x^dsorJy^'
soinelhihgfwhich Kelhad said ■ against the earl ,of Hertford. / Af^Ket?|pTdr of ,thè
same year, the||&||^ being desirous to 'get rid of the Howards,-’the yafl>.of
Surrey was hQian^fed ' to • the Tower on a 'charge of high treason,, ^
soon,followed by-his' father. . ,The.jchief article öf( acousa^on^as' a piret§nded
assumption of the royal arms. Both father .and son -were jéé^üènm«^tijlost
their .- ’heads'; Surrey was executed on the 21st of ''January; and" v tne life
the duke was only saved_hy_ the death -qf the king.' J The earl of Surrey, was
only thirty years of age when-he was thus -untimely..«St,off. ’
Our p o r tr a it of this talented nohléÈton is taken from a ifnc painting by
Holbein, preserved in the palace of Hampton Court.
The engraving on the present page-represents a Knife, ^ a n d Fork,
óf ivory, from thé collection in the-Louvre, of the sixteenth lemtury.