Worcester, Edward Somerset, 6th Earl and 2nd Marquis of, (Lord Herbert, from 1601 to 1642), notice of, 2; one of 13 children, 6; at Oxford, 6; family associations, 9; probable date of his birth, 10; at eight years of age, 10; his preceptor, Mr. Adams, 10; his education, and on the continent, 11; at Charles the First’s court, 11; at 24 years of age, 11; Raglan Castle, a luxurious residence, 12; a young nobleman’s education, 12; personal appearance, 13; defect in speech, 13; his style of composition, 13; state of mechanical science, 16; his first marriage, 16; his family of one son and two daughters, 16, 17; Henry created Duke of Beaufort, 17; account of his marriage, 17; engages the mechanic Caspar Kaltoff, 17; a work-shop, 17; predilection for mathematical and mechanical studies, 17; continental tour, 18; at Rome and Venice, 18; domestic and studious habits, 18; early inventions, 18; his inventive faculty, 19; his water-works at Raglan, 19, 20, 21; Vandyck’s portrait, 21; his “golden days,” 22; attests his wife’s funeral certificate, 23; letter from Secretary Coke, 23; at Worcester House 24; his Wheel at the Tower, 24; described, 25; exhibited to Charles I. 25; paradoxes, 25, 26; his married life, 26; a widower, 26; studies and pursuits, 27; studies matured, 28; a mathematician, 28; of delicate frame, 28, 29; his books, 29; second marriage, 30; his Irish connexions, 30; death of his child, Mary, 30; painting of a family group, 30; strange costume, 30, 31; resident in London, 31, 32; letter from Charles I. 33; “lying pamphlets,” 33; Charles I. another letter, 33; indisposition, 34; at 40 years of age, 35; his declaration in regard to the King’s early movements, 35; fears the Parliament, 36; noticed by Parliament, 38; order to consider his commission, 38; Parliamentary order to disarm him, 43; order for his appearance, 43; at Nottingham, 44; his minute report of Charles Ist’s message to his father, 44, 45, 46; Lord Herbert’s interview with Charles I. at Nottingham pourtrayed, 46, 47; residence at Raglan Castle, 48; has the command of 500 horse, 54; in his military capacity, 55; made General of South Wales, 56; General of the horse, 56; before Gloucester, 56; attempts its reduction, 56; defeat and loss, 57; appears to have been at Oxford, 57; at Hereford, 57; called to the Forest of Dean, 58; dispensing his father’s loans to Charles I., 58, 59; in fear of Parliament, 58; takes leave of it, 59; retires to Raglan, 59; his offer to Parliament, 59; his declaration to uphold the King’s cause, 60; raises six regiments, 60; horses seized at Gloucester, 60, 61; summoned to Parliament, 60; letter to Prince Rupert, 62; entering Forest of Dean, 63; before Monmouth, 63; flight of his troops, 63; unites with Sir John Winter, 63; raising troops in Montgomeryshire, 64; a dispatch to Prince Rupert, 64, 65; reports ships in Milford Haven, 65; offer of Forest of Dean miners for Bristol, 65; recital of his military exploits, 66; no contemporary account of them, 67; reduces Abergavenny and Carlyon, 67; his troop of Life Guards, 67; gained no military celebrity, 68; his character as a commander, 68; created Earl of Glamorgan, 70; his autograph as Edward Lord Herbert, 77; water-works at Raglan, 100, 101; his father’s reproof on his demanding money for the king, 101, 101, 102; procures the king £6000, committed to his brother’s care, 109; —(See Earl of Glamorgan, transactions preceding his father’s death.)— his letter to the Bishop of Fernes, 184; expects the Queen to befriend Ireland, 185; leaves Ireland for France, 185; in exile, 186; his inventions neglected in his time, 187; styled “Lord Herbert of Raglan,” and a pass to France granted to his wife, 187; account of his being in Paris, 188; his introduction to Cardinal Mazarine, 188; seeks to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 188; interview between his wife and Ormond, 188; her ill-timed resentment, 188; at St. Germain’s, 189; wrote to Charles II., and his gracious reply, 190; four or five years in France, 190; general poverty, 191; difficulties in the way of study abroad, 191; his family in England, 192; disposal of his property by Parliament, 193; Worcester House, during his life, 195; a Bill for settling the same, 195; his son and two daughters, 201; his property, 202, 203, 204; Parliamentary resolutions in regard to valuation, 205, 206, 207; a trying period of five years, 207; his property assists the Government, 207; treatment of his wife and family significant of his being esteemed, 208; return to England, 209; Parliamentary resolution in regard to him as being banished and his property confiscated, 209; supposed to have been sent to England by Charles II., 210; his visit considered, 210, 211; committed to the Tower, 211; his trial to be considered, 211; his petition, 212; order for his liberation, 212; period of confinement, 213; his age, 213; loan of £20., 214; summary of his history, 214; his “Century” written, 214; writes to Chris. Copley, 215; his solemn obligation to Chris. Copley, 216; names his “water-work,” 216; letter to Secretary Thurloe, 217; desires an interview with Cromwell, 218; probable meaning of his letter, 218, 219, 220; letter to the Earl of Lotherdale, 223; promises him an ingeniously contrived box, 223; his humour not to produce an invention a second time, 223; looks for an Act of Parliament, 223; offers his lordship the benefit of £500 (share), 223; his “definition,” 224, 225; earliest distinct reference, 225; his wonderful inventive faculty, 225; his son resident at Badminton, 226; letter of explanations to Lord Clarendon, 227; exposed himself to “any expense or difficulty,” 227; object to screen Charles I., 228; the “amplitude of his commission,” 228; the “height of his Majesty’s design,” 228; immense army arrangements, 228; £30,000 from the Pope and Catholic Princes, 228; the signing and sealing, 229; no use made by him of his great powers, 229; his petition in respect to grants and promises made by Charles I., to his father and himself, to recommend the same to the notice of Parliament, 230; circular note to creditors, 231; his prospects at the Restoration, 234; sketch of his character and that of Charles II., 234; political enemies, 235; offer of Worcester House to Lord Clarendon, 235; seeks his friendship, 236; refers to the “obnoxiousness of his religion,” 236; intimates his desire to make a secret communication to the King, in his lordship’s presence, 237; conjecture as to his meaning, 237, 238; he petitions the House of Lords, 238; restoration of his estates ordered, 238; deeds and writings, his property, ordered to be given up, 238; Ann Tisser’s purchase, 239; his Patent, a prejudice to the Peers, 239; Lords’ committee to consider, 240; acknowledges a patent to create him Duke of Somerset, 240; delivers up his patent, 242; reflections on the treatment he receives, 242; retained the titles of Earl of Glamorgan and Baron Beaufort, 243; attends the House of Lords, 243; present when the king prorogues parliament, 244; petition in respect to debts, 245; bill to restore his estates, 245; encumbered, 246; petitioners against him, 246; magnitude of his claims, 247; his patent for four inventions, 248; further inventions, 249; his letter in testimony of Captain Foster’s character, 250; a second letter, 251; “my six years’ experience of him during my imprisonment in the Tower,” 251; period of his own imprisonment considered, 252; the pot-lid story exploded, 252; Act for his water-commanding engine, and he attends the House, 253, 254, 256, 256; passed, 256; surrenders a warrant to the value of £40,000, 257; and note, 257; may have resided at Vauxhall, 261; noticed by Sorbière, 264; his secresy in regard to works, 266; reported to be buying Vauxhall, 257; at Vauxhall, 268; Duke of Albemarle represents his case, 269; his petition to Charles II. 269; another, in respect to Henry and John Hall, 271; Finch’s report, 273; case as respects John Hall, 273; offers a gratuity of £500 per annum, 275; seeks to set up an engine, 276; offers a judgment in lieu of preceding gratuity, 276; a draft letter, 277; Mazarine’s remark, 281; Queen Dowager’s saying, 281; borrows £200, 281; petitions for a Committee of Inquiry, 283; his autograph, 283; referred, 284; censures Lord Arlington, 284; could have £50,000 yearly abroad, 284; he does “as good as want bread,” 285; his birth-right, 285; foreign censure, 285; speaks of two petitions unnoticed, 285; petition in respect to Vauxhall, 286; £50,000 expended in experiments, 286; survey of land and works at Vauxhall, 289–91; his working-house or Operatory, 291; his Act, and posting bills, 291; his anomalous position as an inventor, 293; alludes to his melancholy, 294; neglected by, yet clings to the court, 295; his death, 295; probably at Lambeth, 295; buried at Raglan, and inscription, 295; his arms and funeral certificate, 298–300; mis-statement about his burial, note, 298; his prayer on beholding the completion of his engine, 300; brief genealogical retrospect, 309, 310; in his youth, 311; his marriage, 311; the civil war, 311; as Earl of Glamorgan, 312; valuable present from the Queen while he was an exile in France, 313; his “Century,” 314; his inventions and experiments, 315; his public appeal, 316; list of five inventions, 316; a further list, 317; Cromwell allows him £3 per week, 317; statement of his expenses and losses through Charles I., 319; spent and lost £800,000, 321; proposes a troop of Life-guards, 322; an ordinary for indigent officers, 324; four causeways, 325; offer of £1000 for repairing St. Paul’s, 325, 326; his troop of Life-guards, 328, 329; his father’s remark thereon, 329; took leave of the Parliament (1641), 331; writes a sentence in cipher, 333; troops at Gloucester, 333; summary of his proposed address, 335; its date, 335; his estimate of the value of the Engine, 338; made it public, 338; his great acquired knowledge, 340; his promised work, 341; neglected by contemporaries, 341; general estimate of his character and his “Century,” 342; early list of his inventions, Appendix A.; his Patent for inventions, Appendix B; his “Definition and Act,” Appendix C.; apocryphal passages relating to, Appendix H.; Petitions, etc., of 1665, Appendix I.
Worcester, Henry, Earl and 1st Marquis of, his reported marriage, 1; sent to a christening, 2; letters about his marriage, 2; preparations for his marriage at Blackfriars, 2; a memorable masque, 3; feast, 3; ceremony, 3, 4; Lord and Lady Herbert at court, 4; his age, 6; summoned to Parliament, 7; resident in London, 8; his family, 9; his character and constitution, 9; family at Raglan, 9; his autograph, 10; at forty-eight years of age, 12; letter from Secretary Coke, 23; his son and heir, 23; death of his wife, 31; letter from Charles I., 32; munificent advances to the King, 34; created Marquis of Worcester, 37; his age, 37; person, age and wealth, 37; noticed by Parliament, 38; order to consider his commission, 38; guard set on his house, 39; letter from Charles I. 40; sends the King £5,000 to Newstead, 42; the King “hopes he shall not die in his debt,” 42; Parliamentary order to disarm him, 43; ordered to appear before the House, 43; Raglan Castle garrisoned, 43; message of Charles I. to him, as reported by Lord Herbert, from Northampton, 44, 45, 46; the Marquis’ character, 28; Raglan Castle described, 48, 51, 52, 53; warlike preparations, 53; his wealth, 54; his horses and stables, 54; early rumours against him, 55; Lord Herbert obtains troops and stores, 57; certain loans to Charles I., 58, 59; Lord Herbert leaves London for Raglan, 59; summoned to appear before Parliament, 61; Monmouth mostly the Marquis’s tenants, 63; calls in the aid of Prince Rupert to assist Monmouth, 63; letter from Charles I., 1643, 64; promise of title (of Duke), 64; Prince Rupert’s warrant, 65, 66; he saves Monmouth, 66; it belongs to him of inheritance, 66; supplies the Marquis of Hertford with recruits, 67; furnishes the King with soldiers at Edge-hill, 67; Charles I. acknowledges £250,000, 74; sixty-three years of age, 95; marriage of his daughter Elizabeth, 97; a masque and mock marriage for entertainment, 97, 98, 99, 100; practical joke on searchers for arms, 100, 101; reproof to Lord Herbert, 101, 102; letter from Charles I., 102; promise of the Garter, 103; another letter, 103; enclosing a warrant to create him Duke of Somerset, 103; “a match propounded for his grandchild,” 103; visited by Charles I. 104; his reception, 105; his free discourse with the King, 106–8; characteristic dinner incident, 108, 109; reproves Lord Herbert for procuring the King £6,000, deposited with his son, Lord John Somerset, 109; apartments at Raglan, 140; his great state, 140; order of his household, 140–142; a message from Charles I. by the hand of Allen Boteler, 142; Boteler’s tedious journey, 143; and arrival at Raglan, 144; harsh reception, 144; interview with the Marquis, 144, 145; the Marquis’s sharp reply to Boteler, concerning Charles I., 145; the messenger delayed, 145; Boteler’s despatches and return, 146, 147; his strong and sincerely expressed feeling on the King’s treatment of himself and his son, 148; his angry reception of the King’s messenger, 148, 149; the siege of Raglan castle, 149; anecdote during the siege, 150; summons from General Fairfax, 151; numerous messages pass, 151; requires the King’s approval, 151; conditions offered, 151; a drum sent out, 152; a cessation of arms, 152; the castle in jeopardy, 152; concludes terms for surrender of his castle, 152, 153; he leaves with his family, friends, retainers, and others, 153, 154; removed to Covent Garden, in charge of the Black Rod, 154; his death four months after, 155; his funeral expenses, 155; Parliamentary order to destroy Raglan Castle, 156; lands of, 201; a Penitent of the Society of Jesuits, 232.
Worcester, Anne, Countess of, her death, 31.
Worcester, Countess of—see Marchioness of Worcester.
Worcester, Margaret, Marchioness of, a pass granted her to France, as “Lady Herbert,” 187; meets Ormond in Paris, her ill-timed resentment, 188; petition in respect of Worcester House and property, 194; her peculiar situation politically, 195; report on her Petition, 195; Bill for settling Worcester House, 195; the same, 196; possession to be granted, 197; sum to be paid, 197; referred to a Committee, 197; report, 198; order to pay her £6 per week, 198; has rooms in Worcester House, 199; an Act for settling Worcester House on her, 199; order for payment of her pension, 199; order to give up the house, 199; her petition respecting her husband’s imprisonment, 212; draft petition, 222; petitions against undermining Worcester House, 235; petition in respect to, 287, 288; John Hall, 288; petition ordered to be represented, 289; named, 300; residing at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 303; letter from her confessor, 303; Wm. Travers’s letter to, Appendix D.
Worcester House, noticed and sketched, 8, 10; death of Lady Herbert there, 22, 23; residence there, 26; guard set on, 39; account of it, 192; iron seized there to be sold, 192; used by the Parliament, 193; soldiery lodged there, 194; its disposal ordered, 194; rooms given to the Marchioness of Worcester, 199; to be examined, 199; an Act for settling, 199; possession ordered, 199; conveyance in trust, 200; christening at, 292; petition in respect to, 287.
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