XVI.—An Inventory of the Effects of Henry Howard, K. G., Earl of Northampton, taken on his death in 1614, together with a transcript of his Will; prefaced by a Letter to Charles Spencer Perceval, Esq., LL.D., Director

Abstract

The Inventory which I have the honour to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries, by the kindness of its owner the Baroness North, was taken on the death of Henry Howard Earl of Northampton, June 15th 1614, and may not be unworthy of the notice of the Society, whether we consider the historical importance which must ever attach to the character of “The Lord Privy Seal,” as his Lordship is here officially called, disagreeably connected as his memory is with the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury ; or the still existing “Northampton,” or as it is now called Northumberland,” House, built by this same Earl, “with Spanish gold,” says Osborne, about the year 1605.