The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-08-29
GATH IN ENGLAND.
visit 10 n Great NObIeWnn's Castle
Aruudel-Scat of the Duke Of Norfolk
The ChteC Of British Catholics.

Aruudel-scat of the Duke Of Norfolk
The Chicr of British Catholics.
ARrSprL, ENGLAND, August ., 1850.
When I first came to England, in the year
1862, made visit to knowsley, the seat of
the Eails of Derby, whose family name is
Stanley. An Earl of this house married the
widowed mother of Uenry VII, founder of the
glorious Tudor dynasty, House of Norfolk.
My recollections of the trip to knowsley,
near Liverpool, were so agreeable that, hear
ing yesterday of the magnitude OF the Duke
of Norfolk's place in the south of England, |
took the morning train at Brighton and was
put down in an hour at junction two miles
FROM Arundel and in full view was the town
of Arundel lying along the walls and under
the windows of Arundel Castle, ono of the
most ancient and greatest in England.
The Duke of Norfolk is the ranking Duke
of all England, excepting only Royal Dukes,
such rs Alfred, Duke of Edinboro, and the
Duke of Connaught. He is the Hereditary
Earl Marshal of England, Chief Butler of Eng
land, an Earl of Arundel, the thirty-sixth in
line, and as Duke of Norfolk, the fifteenth in
generation or succession. You can realize
the renotenrss of a man clearly descended
through tliirty-six hoods by remembering
that if Columbus, the discoverer of America.
had postcrity now living they would be only
in the eleventh or twelfth generation. We
reckon three generations to a century. If
Jesus Christ, the founder of our political era,
had left posterity, they would be only in the
fifty seventh generation. Here is the thirty
sixth Earl of Arundel, and some of the walls
standing here made shelter for Harold, the
last of the Saxon Kings of England. This
present mans ancestor, Roger Montgomery, a
knight, came over from France with the free
booting army of William the Bastard, and was
given by William, Arundel Earldom, with
three Iordships, ten hundreds eighteen parks,
twenty five manors, etc, amounting to 5S 900
acres. The heir of all this robbery is now Il
young fellow thirty-three years old, named
Henry Fitzalan Howard; his family name is
Saxon. The Dukes of Norfolk named Howard
married the Norman Arundel family, named
l'itz Alan, to get these great estates.
Young Henry Ftz, etcetera, needing wife
some time ago, fell in love with Lady Flora
| Hastings, then aged twenty-thrcc, daughter
of n commodore, and of his wife, Scotch
| countess. To get him she became Catholic, as
the Duke of Norfolk, with the Marquis OF
| Bute are the greatest of the Anglo Catholi,
nobility. Ten months ago, after u marriage
of nineteen months, the bride had a son,
future Duke of Norfolk, if the thing lasts st
long-l mean the privilege of rank.
So here is u young fellow of no especial
| character, or talent, or purpose III life, own
ing over $4,000 acres of land. partly il
the south partly in the north of England
| The title TO it was in highway robbery and
| piracy. He has IL 900 acres in this privat,
estate around his castle. His income is said
by prudent critics to be $2,OOO,OO0 year
He is tbirty-three years old, his wife il
twenty six. and the baby is not over year
He is nearly all Norman-French in blood
..,r
lie owns large part of the great city o
Sheffield.
The Norfolk Arms was tavern of rec
brick, with u Ducal sign swinging from
post on the green before it. Like almos
everything recent in England il was o
Gothic form, and stood in garden OF greer
| things. Here we were waiting half an hUu
for train TO take us back over the tw,
miles to Arundel.
In while we were put down at Arunde
Station, and before us was level street
leading across meadows to the town. B.,
peculiar-looking, hearse- fashioned vans com
ing up at rapid speed, it was seen tina
equality was on the wing.
As drew nearer the town, its new Catho
lie Church and broken fragments of castl
and point of protruding English Churcl
tower rose clear of the rock, on which stoo
to the seacoast, only three miles away
Around the cape of the rock curcd the tida
river Arun, of which the old poet Drayto
wrote, Arun which doth name the beaute
GUS Arundel"
A winding street led up hill throng
picturesque but sleepy shops, leaving belo'
the ruins of an Abbey in a yard or field
mere walls, partly covered with vine. Tn
street grew more solemn and lushed as W
mounted, and two edifces took up attention
, Oh the right the Norfolk Arms Hotel, like u
aged nunky, entered by an archway, and OF
posite was the Stewards house and offices
, the Duke of Norfolk, where are paid tn
, rents and dues.
Just beyond the Norfolk Hotel the ne
: castle walls, restoration, begin, and III
street runs under them to tho castle gat,
where walls again bear of at a right angl,
leaving the visitor caught between their COZ
verging lines. The new walls, rising II
!. hill, are battlemented, Overhung, and
/. every change of parallel line have u towe
o Behind the wall is u stone SILL or wall
= about four feet below the top, and in rain u
t seniinels pacing along il got under the towe
= The several hundred feet OF this wall,
+ gray Purbeck stone, terminate at the mob
4 gateway, which is ilankcd with tall, powe
I full towers, and guard room ON each 81,
g and above; and over the splendid Goth
4 arch, where the heavy military gates a
o shut forbiddingly, is carved the arms of Il
@ Ears of Arundel, supported by lIowa
) lion and Ftzalan horse.
n Going along the other wall, directly
a face of the gate and still up the hill, pass,
+ under SET of old palace-lke apartment
4 peepinG over the wall, with tall, narrC
+ windows. Not many yards beyond the
Il resident apartments q stone arch, near
= concealed in trees and vines, led in ON Il
Q castle side, and saw by second gate wi
I: | printed signs upon IL that 1 was going in
the church-yard of the parish. Immediate
- there opened before me one of those beau
=. fail old churches SO distinctly English, in 4
= style of which we are building few
America.
u Five hundred years ago this very year,
in 1850, the chancel, or long extension |
= hind the choir OF this church, was built
d the fourteenth Earl of Arundel. Therein t
tombs of the Arundel family are placed.
d course, England was then Catholic.
Tho Norfolk family We're Catholics, a
continue TO he so. Hence, as the religion
n England was Tudor, or demi- Protestant, I
. parish church, when il was built against Il
$. chancel, took the chancel in. The chan,
d really was part of an old abbey, seculariz
II to the Earls of Arundel by Henry VIII VIII
he smashed the Roman establishment. 4
,s 1873, period of more than three centuri,
ii the question had never been raised of /
10 personal right To that chancel. But in Is
IA the fourteenth Duke of Norfolk died, leavi
a a son 10 be Duke aged only twelve yea
10 The Catholic influence in England becal
g, about that time bold and aggressive agai
10 and this boy-Duke was taught that the p