The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17
An Unfortunate Heir.

| The little Earl of ArundellS TO o.
| carried now to the shrine of Cara
vaggio, vi here prayers for the re
cover Y of his sight, unavailing else
where, are to be offered. We know
of nothing at once more pitiful and
more interesting than the case OF
this four-year old heir of all the
title, estates and fame of the great
Howard family. There is a notion
prevalent that the family inherits its
chief title from the rough diamond
Roger Bigod, Earl of No folk, who
x hen choleric Edward I, urged
hilu to a distasteful adventure,
cried "By God, Sir Earl, you shall
either go or hang stoutly Tetored,
by God, Sir King, will neither go
nor hang and forth with raised him
an army of revolt so imposing that
the King sought a reconciliation.
In reality the Blgods had lost the!
title and were well nigh forgotten
when the Dukedom of Norfolk and
its hereditary craftsmanship
passed over to the Now orays, and
thence became Centered in the per-
sen of young woman, together
with the estates and titles Of the
Fitz Alans, Earls of Arundel, early
III the fifteenth century. This girl,
the heiress and sole representative
OF two great lines, was welded to q
smart young Knight of Yorkshire,
Sir Robert Howard, the head Of
family of lawyers who had more
wealth than blood. It was the son
OF this marriage John Howard. who
rode into high favor with the York
Kings, was made q councillor by
Edward ", and given both Duke
dom and Marshalship by Richard
III. who found those lines which |
Shakespeare immortalized pinned
on his tent door on the morn of Bos-
worth fight:
Jocky OF Norf TX, be not so bod,
For Dickon thy master is bough. and
sold;
and who died on tue field with his
betrayed King that same day,
in succession from that
"Jocky" is the present Duke of
Norfolk, Henry Fuzalan Howard,
the premier Duke and hereditary
Earl-MarShal of England, and the
foremost Catholic nobIeman of
Great Britain, Even in his religion
he is historic, for another of his
lost his head in Eliza
beth's time for his devotion TO Rome
and, incidentally, to that most
OF Rome's daughters,
Mary Of Scots. The Howards have
Kept the faith ever since, through
good and evil report. The present
Duke welded Lady Flora Hastings,
a daughter of the famous Countess
Of LOud0un, and Of another ancient
English family which draws its very
name from the battlefield that gave
Britain TO the Normans. Their
single son, Philip Mary Joseph, Earl
Of Arundel and III rey, V as born
blind. There has been some
thing infinitely touching in
the devoutness of the efforts made
by the stricken parents to avert this
affection. The poor little boy has
been blessed in person by the Pope;
he has been prayed for at Knock,
at Lourdes, and half The other
shrines of Europe, and special inVo-
cations in his behalf have been en-
joined more than once from the
Vatican upon the churches of
Europe. But the blindness still
fingers, and now the lad is to be
taken as aIlast resort to Caravaggio,
an Italian town some forty
miles east of Milan. The place is
chiefly known to sinners as the GEN.
tire Of famous watermelon district,
but it seems there is shrine of
great reputation there as
well. Surely even those
most capable of preferring
Caravsggio's melons to it's holy
bones and relics will hope that the
latter may have the power to work
at least one miracle-and that on
the eyes of the little Arundel.