lope, argent bezanty, horned, hoofed, gorged with a ducal coronet, and chained, or. The same arms are also upon his stall in St. George's chapel in Windsor castle.-See Sandford's Genealogical History, 1677, p. 466. The king, his wife, and friend, mourned exceedingly for the premature death of this amiable youth; it was long before the latter forgot the loss of this beloved associate of his early years, who so nearly resembled himself in genius, manners, and acquisitions: and who, had he lived, would probably have prevented the earl from falling a sacrifice to the fury of the king his father. Among the works of the earl of Surrey is mentioned a poem on the death of the duke of Richmond, which we may conceive to have been tender in the extreme; but which, with some other pieces of the same elegant author, is unhappily lost. In 1543 Surrey was confined to Windsor castle, for eating flesh in lent; contrary to the king's proclamation, Feb. 9, 1542: during which restraint he wrote the following pathetic elegy, lamenting the happier days passed there with young Fitzroy. Prisoner in Windsor, he recounteth his pleasure there passed. "So cruell prison howe could betyde, alas! As proude Windsor: Where I in Lust and Joy, Wyth woordes and lookes, that Tygers could but rewe, With Silver droppes the meade yet spreade for ruthe, Where we dyd strayne trayned wyth swarmes of youthe The secrete groves which oft we made resounde, "POEMS of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey," printed for W. Meares, 8vo. 1717, p. 12, collated with "SONGES AND SONNETTES, written by the Right Honourable Lord Henry Howard, late Earle of Surrey." Imprinted by Richard Tottell, 1567. Reprinted by E. Curll, 8vo. 1717. Surrey's POEMS are said to have been printed in 1565, 1567, 1569, and 1585 or 1587. SIR WILLIAM WOOD. THIS person was Marshal to the Regiment of Archers, as he informs us in a small volume published by himself, anno 1682, entituled "THE BOWMAN'S GLORY; or, ARCHERY REVIVED; giving an account of the many signal Favours vouchsafed to Archers and Archery by those Renowned Monarchs, King Henry VIII. James, and Charles I. as by their several gracious commissions here recited may appear. With a brief relation of the Manner of the Archers marching on several days of solemnity." Maitland, in his History of London, says, that the title of Sir was given to William Wood as a compliment of his brethren archers for his dexterity in shooting. But it is more likely to have been conferred on him royally, as the titles of Duke of Shoreditch, Marquis of Clerkenwell, &c. were on. some of his predecessors. He died September 4, 1691, aged 82 years, and was buried at St. James's Clerkenwell; having this Epitaph inscribed near his grave. "Sir William Wood lyes very near this Stone, Long did he live the Honour of the Bow, "And his long Life to That alone did owe: "But how can Art secure, or what can save "Extreme Old Age from an appointed Grave? "Where whistling Arrows did his Worth proclaim, This is preserved in Webb's Epitaphs, 1775. vol. 1, p. 260. T |