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He was accompanied by his son . The third in 1557 , under Mary , renounced the Catholic faith , to which , both before and since , the family have passionately clung , and suffered -LRB- at the age of forty -RRB- the last penalty . The fourth earl died naturally , but suddenly , in his bed at the age of fifty during the winter of 1566 . At midnight _ of the same day _ he was laid in the grave by his son . This son was later on , in 1591 , seen by _ his _ son to fall from a lofty balcony at Orven Hall , while walking in his sleep at high noonday . Then for some time nothing happens ; but the eighth earl dies mysteriously in 1651 at the age of forty-five . A fire occurring in his room , he leapt from a window to escape the flames .