_Lord Howard of Effingham_ (Vol. iii., pp. 185. 244.).--It has been
supposed that the Earl of Nottingham was a Catholic, and having held office
in the reign of Queen Mary, he probably was so at that time; but he
certainly was a Protestant during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and in the
beginning of James I. was at the head of a commission to discover and expel
all Catholic priests. (Vide _Memorials of the Howard Family_.)