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Minor Queries.
_Was Lord Howard of Effingham, who commanded in chief against the Spanish
Armada, a Protestant or a Papist?_--On the one hand, it is highly
improbable that Queen Elizabeth should employ a popish commander against
the Spaniards.
1. The silence of Dr. Lingard and other historians is also negatively in
favour of his being a Protestant.
But, on the other hand, it has been repeatedly asserted, in both houses of
Parliament, that he was a Papist.
2. It is _likely_, because his _father_ was the eldest son by his second
wife of Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, and was created Baron Howard of
Effingham by Queen Mary.
3. Whatever his own religion may have been, he was contemporary with his
cousin, Philip, Earl of Arundel, whom Camden calls the champion of the
Catholics, and whose _violence_ was the cause of his perpetual
imprisonment.
4. The present Lord Effingham has recently declared that by blood he was
(had always been?) connected with the Roman Catholics.
Under these and _other_ circumstances, it is a question to be settled by
_evidence_.