Arms:Quarterly 1st Gules, on a Bend between six Crosses-Crosslet fitchée Argent, an Escutcheon Or, charged with a Demi-Lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a Double Tressure flory counterflory of the first (for Howard); 2nd Gules, three Lions passant guardant in pale Or, armed and langued Azure, in chief a Label of three-points Argent (for Thomas of Brotherton); 3rd Chequy Or and Azure (for Warenne); 4th Gules, a Lion rampant Or, armed and langued Azure (for Fitzalan) the whole differenced at the fess-point with a Crescent Sable. Crest: On a Chapeau Gules, turned up Ermine, a Lion statant guardant tail extended Or, gorged with a Collar Argent, charged on the shoulder with a Crescent for difference. Supporters: On either side a Lion Argent, charged on the shoulder with a Crescent for difference.
トマス・ハワード(英語版)はランカスター選挙区選出の庶民院議員を務めたのち、1621年頃にアンドーヴァー子爵(Viscount Andover) 及びウィルトシャー州チャールトンの,チャールトンのハワード男爵(Baron Howard of Charlton, of Charlton in the County of Wiltshire) に叙された[5][6][7]。彼はさらに1625年頃にバークシャー伯爵(Earl of Berkshire) に昇叙したが、これが現在まで続く伯爵位叙爵にあたる[6][7][8]。一連の爵位はすべてイングランド貴族爵位である。彼ののちはその息子チャールズが爵位を相続した[6]。