estates, which were, however, restored in 1601 for a payment of £10,000. Howard then took up his residence with his children and grandchildren at Naworth Castle in Cumberland, restored the castle, improved the estate and established order in that part of the country. He collected a valuable library, of which most of the printed works remain at Naworth, though the manuscripts have been dispersed, a portion being now among the Arundel manuscripts in the College of Arms; he corresponded with James Ussher and was intimate with Camden, Sir Henry Spelman, and Sir Robert Cotton, whose eldest son married his daughter. In 1592, he published an edition of Florence of Worcester's Chronicon ex Chronicis, dedicated to Lord Burghley, and drew up a genealogy of his family. In 1603, on the accession of James, he had been restored in blood. In 1618 he was made one of the commissioners for the border, and performed great services in upholding the law and suppressing marauders. Personal life On 28 October 1577, he married his step-sister Elizabeth Dacre, third daughter of Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre and the former Elizabeth Leyburne. She was also the sister and co-heiress of George Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre. After Elizabeth's father died, her mother married his father in 1566. Together, Elizabeth and William were the parents of: Sir Philip Howard (b. 1581), who married Margaret Carryl (–), daughter of Sir John Carryl of Harting. Sir Francis Howard (1588–1660) of Corby Castle who married Margaret Preston, daughter of John Preston of Furness. After her death in 1625, he married Mary Widdrington, a daughter of Sir Henry Widdrington. Sir William Howard Sir Charles Howard Col. Sir Thomas Howard, who married Elizabeth Eure, eldest daughter of Sir William Eure, MP for Scarborough (third son of William Eure, 2nd Baron Eure), and Catherine Bowes, de jure suo jure Baroness Scrope of Bolton (only child of Sir William Bowes of Streatlam Castle and, his first wife, Mary Scrope, only child by his first wife of Henry Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton). Margaret Howard (–), who married Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet of Conington, in 1617. Mary Howard, who married Sir John Wintour. Elizabeth Howard, who married, as his first wife, Sir Henry Bedingfeld of Oxburgh Hall, son and heir of Thomas Bedingfeld and Frances Jerningham (daughter and co-heiress of John Jerningham, of Somerleyton). He died on 7 October 1640 at Greystoke, to which