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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York, Charles I. at, [58], [59].
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