HENRY HOWARD

“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY

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1517

January 19, Monday (1516, Old Style): Henry Howard was born in Hunsdon, , England, eldest son of Thomas Howard, Earl of , with his 2d wife, Lady Elizabeth Stafford (daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham). This royal youth would be reared at Windsor alongside King Henry VIII’s illegitimate son Lord Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, with whom he would become close friends.

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

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1524

May 21, Saturday (Old Style): Thomas Howard, 2d Duke of and the richest and most powerful peer in England, died at the age of 82 in retirement in his ducal castle at Framlingham in Suffolk (he didn’t take any of it with him, so there would be a game of musical chairs involving his son Thomas Howard, who would become 3d Duke of Norfolk, and his grandson the poet Henry Howard, who would find that he had become the Earl of Surrey).

June 22, Wednesday (Old Style): The body of Thomas Howard, who as 2d Duke of Norfolk had been the richest and most powerful peer in England, was interred at Thetford Priory (since then the Howard tombs have been moved elsewhere and have lost some of their ornamentation) in a ceremony and procession that set new standards for spectacular excess, 400 men in hoodies bearing torches escorting an elaborate bier topped with 100 wax effigies and 700 candles, at a cost that exceeded £1,300. Can we imagine Downton Abbey in the background?

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

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1532

This was a poor harvest year in Europe. Niccolò Machiavelli’s IL PRINCIPE was published posthumously.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey accompanied his 1st cousin , King Henry VIII, and the Duke of Richmond to France, staying there for more than a year as a member of the entourage of King Francis I of France.

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

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1535

At about this point Henry Howard, Early of Surrey got married with Lady Frances de Vere, the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford and Elizabeth Trussell, Countess of Oxford. The couple would produce five children.

This would be a poor harvest year in Europe. The London Exchange began operation.

In London, John Heywood’s son Jasper Heywood was born.1 As a lad he would be page of honor to Princess Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII with Queen Consort Anne Boleyn.

CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT

1. In addition to the poet and translator Jasper Heywood, John Heywood would have a daughter named Elizabeth Heywood (Syminges), and one of his grandsons would be the poet and preacher, John Donne. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1536

King Henry VIII began the dissolution of the English monasteries.

Catherine of Aragón died.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey served alongside his father Thomas Howard, 3d Duke of Norfolk in putting down the “Pilgrimage of Grace” rebellion created by this monarch’s actions. Birth of Earl Henry Howard’s 1st son Thomas Howard (later to become 4th Duke of Norfolk). At the age of 17, King Henry VIII’s illegitimate son Lord Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond died (the body wrapped in lead having been secreted under a pile of straw and conveyed to its internment at one of the Howard homes, Thetford Abbey — its only mourners a couple of attendants who to avoid attracting attention followed at a distance after the cart).

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

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1547

January 13, Thursday (1546, Old Style): Henry Howard, Early of Surrey was found guilty of treason and condemned to death (his dad, as well).

King Henry VIII signed the letter patent which officially ratified the deed of covenant that had in the previous month granted Bethlehem Hospital (“Bedlam”) to the city of London.

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January 19, Wednesday (1546, Old Style): Henry Howard was beheaded for treason on Tower Hill at the Tower of London at the age of 29/30 and his son Thomas Howard became heir to the Dukedom of Norfolk.

The two parts of the body would be placed in a magnificent polychromed alabaster tomb at St Michael the Archangel in Framlingham. His widow Frances Howard, (née de Vere), Countess of Surrey would remarry. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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January 28, Friday (1546, Old Style): Henry VIII died. Immediately, what this meant was that the headchopping of Henry Howard, Early of Surrey’s father Thomas Howard, 3d Duke of Norfolk for treason, which had been slotted to occur on the following day, would no longer need to take place. The day’s schedule had been freed up for other thingies (GENERAL PRINCIPLE, you cannot betray a monarch who’s dead as a doornail – or something like that).

[Jonathan Swift would write this marginalia into one of his books: “I wish he had been flayed, his skin stuffed and hanged upon a gibbet. His bulky guts and flesh left to be devoured by birds and beasts for a warning to his successors forever. Amen.”]

This would mean the accession of King Edward VI, ten years of age, under regency. As a sincere Roman Catholic, John Heywood would get into some trouble during this Church-of-England reign, for making an attempt to deny the monarch’s spiritual supremacy — although in the end he will seem to have been induced to offer a public recantation of his denial.

With the death of this monarch, the English Maisters of Defence lost their exclusive control over prices for fencing instruction within the City of London (this would allow the creation of rival schools, the most famous of which would be opened in 1576 by the Italian Rocco Bonnetti).

A pamphlet controversy would be breaking out in England over who should and who should not be informed about political decisions. At this point, however, no one was advocating anything nearly so extreme as that the average person had a right to be –at best– more than cursorily informed about such matters. It was a settled issue, or no issue at all, that the common run of people had no business meddling in politics, that they needed to keep their noses firmly attached to their grindstones. They needed to seem to be uninterested in the affairs of their betters. AN INFORMED CITIZENRY

THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

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1837

Henry Thoreau copied a poem by Henry Howard, Early of Surrey into his Miscellaneous Extracts notebook: Description of Spring Wherein each thing renews, save only the Lover The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale: The nightingale with feathers new she sings; The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repairèd scale. The adder all her slough away she slings; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs.2

“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

2. THE BOOK OF GEMS. THE POETS AND ARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. EDITED BY S.C. HALL (London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street 1836-1838). Thoreau had made extracts from these three volumes into his Literary Notebook 1840-1848 and his Miscellaneous Extracts 1836-1840. THE BOOK OF GEMS, I THE BOOK OF GEMS, II THE BOOK OF GEMS, III SAMUEL CARTER HALL HDT WHAT? INDEX

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“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.” – Remark by character “Garin Stevens” in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST

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GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obvious deficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored in the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need to punch that button again and recompile the chronology — but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary “writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

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