ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the education and writings of a less familiar 'learned lady', Mary Arundel, who was the younger daughter of Henry Howard's, the twelfth Earl of Arundel, and the youngest member of an extraordinarily privileged noble family. It is through Mary Arundel that the Howards entered Sussex as a political and dynastic force. She was connected through birth and marriage to a number of the important Sussex Catholic families including the Lumleys. Arundel's survival is evidence of the circumspect nature of many of the Catholic and crypto-Catholic Sussex families during the period. He was also witness to the debacle surrounding Bishop Curteys's attempts to enforce conformity on Sussex's major Catholic families in 1577. Later imprisoned in the Tower of London on account of his Catholic faith, he was canonised in 1970.81 Out of his immediate family, then, Henry Fitzalan left only two survivors: Jane's husband, John, Lord Lumley, and Mary's son, Philip.
