<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>In response to this comment:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">David Thomson's letter </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">to Thomas Howard, the Earl of Arundel proves his close relationship to him. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">William Crowne in his younger days was a "servant" - clerk to Thomas Howard,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 22px; ">the Earl and got his start through him</div></div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/business/business13.html">http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/business/business13.html</a>
<div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">By 1639, the</font><font style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b> </b>East India Company</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> at Surat owned a few country ships (regional traders only, not necessarily beholden to Company authority), and they in various ways saved the Company money. </font><font style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>In early 1639 the East India Company was appalled as the Earl of Arundel with the king's backing wanted to get to the east</b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">; his plan resembled the Earl of Southampton's venture to settle Mauritius. And that idea simply revived an abandoned project of Prince Rupert. <br> </font><font style="font: 10.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Earl Arundel: This was Thomas Howard (1585-1646), fourteenth Earl Arundel, Earl Norfolk. </span></font></font><font face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">See Mary F. S. Hervey, <b>The Life, Correspondence and Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel</b>. Cambridge University Press, 1921. Kraus Reprint, New York, 1969; genealogical tables. Lorimer, (Ed.), <b>Amazon</b>, p. 194, Note 3. GEC, <b>Peerage</b>, Arundel, p. 255; Norfolk, pp. 624ff.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px">===========</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px">There may be a Thomson connection, however, Maurice Thomson's brother, Robert, was born in 1622 and he, as far as anyone knows, was the last son born into that family.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px">Virginia</p></div></body></html>