Saturday 20 Mar 1819 (p. 3, col. 2) EXHUMATION OF THE RELIQUES OF LORD WILLIAM HOWARD, IN THE CHANCEL OF GREYSTOKE CHURCH. Last week, the Earl of Carlisle, and Henry HOWARD, Esq. of Corby, gave orders to search for the remains of their celebrated ancestor, Lord William HOWARD, Baron of Gilsland, who was Warden of the Western Marches in the time of Elizabeth, and whose vigorous measures against the mosstroopers form so conspicuous a figure in the poetical writings of Walter SCOTT. Lord William was the third son of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded in the same reign for aspiring to the hand of Mary Queen of Scots, while a prisoner in Fotheringay Castle. His elder brother, Philip Earl of Arundel, married the Lady Anne, one of the co-heiresses of the Lord DACRE, and settled at Greystoke Castle; while Lord William married the other co-heiress, Lady Elizabeth, and settled at Naworth Castle, being Baron of Gilsland;-from the elder branch of the family are descended, the present Duke of Norfolk, the Earls of Suffolk and Effingham, &c.;-from the younger branch are descended, the Earl of Carlisle, and Mr. HOWARD, of Corby. Lord William lived to the age of 80, and died in 1640. It having been ascertained, by an old account book, that he was buried under the large blue stone in the chancel of Greystoke Church, the workmen were directed immediately to the place where the body lay; the large stone in question had been erected over the grave of William, called the good Baron of Greystoke, who died in 1359,-as the following inscription in brass bears testimony:-"Icy est William le bon Baron de Graystok plys veillieant noble et chevialer de sa paiis on son temps; Quy murult le x jour Jully l'an de grace Mill. CCCLIX. alme de guy Dieu eyt pete et mercy. Amen." At the depth of about five feet from the surface, the skeleton was discovered, nearly entire: it measured about six feet, and shewed the remains of a person of strong and athletic make. The teeth were all perfect in the under jaw, and the shape of the skull exactly corresponded with the original portrait of Lord William in the possession of Mr. HOWARD, of Corby. We believe it is the intention of Lord Carlisle to have the remains of his ancestor translated to the beautiful mausoleum at his Lordship's seat, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire.-No coffin or inscription was found, and the body seems to have been buried in a common grave. As Lord William died of the plague, the little delay that followed between his death and funeral may account for his interment without a leaden coffin, or without a vault or brass inscription: at the foot of the grave, a square casket of lead was found, which probably contained the heart of him or his wife. Upon opening this casket, it was found to contain a kind of substance resembling dried moss. In digging in other parts of the chancel, various other reliques were found, probably of the former Barons of Greystoke; and a vault was opened which contained three coffins entire, one marked on the lid with the initials C. H. 1753. This was the coffin of Catharine, the sister of the late Duke of Norfolk, who died in that year, aged 11 years. The process of search was superintended by Mr. WILKINSON, the steward of Mr. Molyneux HOWARD, of Greystoke Castle, Mr. SHARKEY, the under-steward, and Mr. R. CARLYLE, the artist, who attended for the purpose of taking drawings and copies of any inscription that might be found; and the whole was done by permission of the Rev. H. ASKEW, rector of Greystoke.