Nevertheless, it is rather remarkable that operations on so extensive a scale, prosecuted at a large cost by a single family, should have obtained comparatively so little renown in the annals of the civil war: among which we search in vain for details characterising the martial deeds of Edward Somerset, Lord Herbert of Raglan.
Footnotes
[90] Somers’ Tracts, vol. iv. p. 459.
[105] Whitelock.
[95] Thomas—also Clarendon.
[46] Harley.
[87] Rushworth.
[90] Somers’ Tracts, vol. v. p. 312.
[A] Rapin states that after thus relieving Gloucester, Sir William Waller took first Chepstow, and afterwards Monmouth.
[102] Washbourn.