The corrosive effect of polluted, acidic city air on limestone and marble was noted in the 17th century by John Evelyn, who remarked upon the poor condition of the Arundel marbles.

Today a lead Sphinx designed by the celebrated sculptor John Cheere is positioned on a plinth in this room, together with one of the famous Arundel marbles which originally was inset into the base of an obelisk within the gardens and dates from the 3rd century BC.

He also searched for Greek marbles on behalf of the Duke of Buckingham and the second Earl of Arundel.

In 1705 following a fire the 8th Earl rebuilt some of the oldest parts the house, making rooms to display his newly acquired Arundel marbles, which form the basis for the sculpture collection at Wilton today.

The Arundelian Marbles are a collection of Greek marbles collected by Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel in the early seventeenth century, the first such comprehensive collection of its kind in England.

They now belong to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, as a result of a gift made by his grandson Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk in 1667 and of a supplementary gift in 1755, when the extravagant 2nd Earl of Pomfret sold back to his mother those Arundel marbles that had been at Easton Neston, and she donated them to the Ashmolean, where sometimes they are called the Pomfret marbles.

The Arundel marbles ( Oxford: University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum )

* Marmora Oxoniensia, & c., Oxford, 1676, a catalogue and chronology of the Arundel marbles and related collections ; the numerous typographical errors were ascribed to the carelessness of Thomas Bennet as corrector of the press.

His first work consisted of fragments from the minor Greek poets, with notes ( Elegiaca Graeca, 1759 ); and in 1763 he published a fine edition of the inscriptions among the Arundel marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia, with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying the lacunae.

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His great-grandfather, Arundel Elias Disney, had emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland where he was born in 1801.

Arundel Disney was a descendant of Robert d ' Isigny, a Frenchman who had travelled to England with William the Conqueror in 1066.

After some hesitation, Henry met with the exiled Thomas Arundel, former Archbishop of Canterbury, who had lost his position because of his involvement with the Lords Appellant.

Badby bluntly maintained that when Christ sat at supper with his disciples he had not his body in his hand to distribute, and that “ if every host consecrated at the altar were the Lord ’ s body, then there be 20, 000 Gods in England .” A further court in St Paul ’ s, London, presided over by Archbishop Thomas Arundel, condemned him to be burned at Smithfield, the tournament ground just outside the city walls.

Its population grew by 80. 8 % and had the fastest population growth of any single town in western Anne Arundel County from 2000-2010.

Rail traffic through Baltimore had been disrupted by southern sympathizers, so supplies, mail and soldiers flowed through Annapolis and west Anne Arundel County to Washington.

He also had 3 daughters: Gunnor, who married Robert, Lord of Rayleigh ; Cecily, who married William d ' Aubigny " Brito "; and Maud, who married William d ' Aubigny " Pincerna ", and was mother to William d ' Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.

Both her father and grandfather had practised law in the Norfolk area, and her sister Audrey was married to Thomas Gawdy, a lawyer and Justice of the Court of King's Bench with links to the Earl of Arundel, something that later served Edward well.

His uncle Thomas Gawdy had close links to Earl Arundel himself.

This humble origins of the Spencers once caused a heated exchange of words between wealthy yet then-upstart Spencers with the more established Howards who had been the Earls of Arundel since the 12th century.

On 8 November 1397 he was chosen Archbishop of Canterbury in succession to Thomas Arundel, who had just been banished from the realm, but he lost this position when the new king Henry IV restored Arundel in 1399, and after a short imprisonment he passed into retirement, being, as he himself says, " in the dust and under feet of men.

Dudley still had the troops from the Norfolk campaign at his disposal, and in October 1549 he joined the Earl of Southampton and the Earl of Arundel, prominent religious conservatives, to lead a coup of councillors to oust the Protector from office.

A week earlier Arundel had assured Northumberland of his wish to spill his blood even at the Duke's feet ; now Dudley went down on his knees as soon as he caught sight of him.

Set in the grounds of the ancient Arundel Castle, in the village of the same name, the performance had a number of unexpected changes to the setlist.

He had by his second wife, Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, two sons and two daughters:

En route he stayed at London, where it was reported that he had been in the confidence of Jesuits and privy to part of the Babington plot, and that he had corresponded with the Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, and with the Tower-bound Earl of Arundel.

He had two sons and three daughters ; one of his sons, James Stanley, was an associate of the Earl of Arundel in the 17th century, as they plotted to overthrow the Jamestown Colony.

Arundel spent his exile in Florence, where in 1398, at Richard II's request, the Roman Pope Boniface IX translated him to become Bishop of St. Andrews, a cruel, empty fate because Scotland during the Great Schism recognized the Pope in Avignon, already had a bishop in place and would probably never have accepted him anyway, even in peaceful times.

Arundel was a vehement opponent of the Lollards, the followers of John Wycliffe, who in his 1379 treatise De Eucharistia had opposed the dogma of Transubstantiation.

Arundel had a stroke which left him unable to speak shortly afterwards.

Henry V, who had had uneasy relations with Arundel, installed Henry Chichele in his place.

That case concerned Henry, 22nd Earl of Arundel ( later the Duke of Norfolk ), who had tried to create a shifting executory limitation so that one of his titles would pass to his eldest son ( who was mentally deficient ) and then to his second son, and another title would pass to his second son, but then to his fourth son.

Stephen also faced a military dilemma at Arundel — the castle was considered almost impregnable, and he may have been worried that he was tying down his army in the south whilst Robert roamed freely in the west.

Since 1997 its headquarters have been Arundel House, in London.

Stephen also faced a military dilemma at Arundel — the castle was considered almost impregnable, and he may have been worried that he was tying down his army in the south whilst Robert roamed freely in the west.

Arundel played a hugely prominent part in the usurpation and may have been the most hawkishly determined of all that the king should be removed entirely: whether he actually lied on oath to Richard II to lure him out of Conwy Castle remains altogether open to debate.

The present title was created in 1644 for Thomas Howard, 18th Earl of Arundel, the heir of the Howard Dukedom of Norfolk which had been forfeit in 1572.

The player's party travels to a temple that Arundel believes houses the gem, but finds that it had been attacked recently, and the gem stolen.

Thereafter the Earldom of Arundel has been held by the Dukes of Norfolk.

His father had been carver and sword-bearer to Jack Cade, and was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans on 17 February 1461 ; his mother, who was born on 1 July 1429, and married Poynings in December 1459, inherited her husband's property in Kent, in spite of opposition from her brother-in-law, Edward Poynings, master of Arundel College ; before 1472 she married a second husband, Sir George Browne of Betchworth, Surrey, by whom she had a son Matthew and a daughter.

The castle has been under attack several times, not always by Welsh raiders, most notably in 1263 when John Fitzalan, 6th Earl of Arundel and Lord of Oswestry and Clun, held it under siege and caused significant damage, the damage was estimated at 1, 060 marks.

On 17 November – the day after Edward II had been taken captive – Arundel was executed, allegedly on the instigation of Mortimer.

This veneration may have been inspired by a similar cult around Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, who was executed by Richard II in 1397.

By now, the Earl of Arundel had rebuilt the family wealth and was apparently a major financier of the Crown, and financial sweeteners may have been used to reconcile both the Church and the Crown.

The Earldom of Arundel had been entailed to heirs male, and so the next year FitzAlan was summoned to parliament as Earl of Arundel.

The French chronicler Jehan de Waurin claimed that Arundel had simply been buried in Beauvais.

A proposed scheme to bypass Arundel was dropped in 2003 although the junction at the end of the dual carriageway has been partly made into an underpass.

In 1098 Robert's younger brother Hugh died, and Robert inherited, on payment of £ 3, 000 in relief, the English properties that had been their father's, including the Rape of Arundel and the Earldom of Shrewsbury.

Apparently, Shelvock had not passed with Ruyton into the immediate possession of the Earl of Arundel, but was still held by an under-tenant, presumably a descendant of the William Fitz Walter to whom it had been granted in 1175.