[286] A small volume with this title: “Worcester’s Apophthegms; or, Witty Sayings of the Right Honourable Henry (late) Marquess and Earle of Worcester, delivered upon several occasions, and now published for the benefit of the reader, by T. B., a constant observer and no less admirer of his Lordship’s wisdom and loyalty. 1650.”
[287] See ante page 175, the King’s letter to Glamorgan.
[288] This, in some degree, explains the strong motives by which the Marquess was actuated in his devotion to the King.
[289] On the coffin was this inscription, engraved on a brass plate:—“Depositum illustrissimi principis Edwardi, Marchionis et Comitis Wigorniæ, Comitis de Glamorgan, Baronis Herbert de Raglan, Chepstow, et Gower, nec non serenissimo nuper Domino Regi Carolo Primo, South Walliæ locum tenentis, qui obiit apud Lond., tertio die Apriles, An. Dom. MDCLXVII.”
[290] August 18, 1660.
[291] See description of the moat, &c., ante p. 158.
[292] Tinterne and its Vicinity, page 130.
[293] Page 131.
[294] Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, Wilts, Somerset, Devon, Brecon, Glamorgan, Caermarthen, Cardigan, and Radnor; together with the British Channel to some distance beyond the Holms. Near the latter is a Tower called “Kemey’s Folly.” Its founder, boasting to his father that the tower could be seen from thirteen counties, was answered—“I am sorry, my son, that so great an extent of country should be witness to thy consummate folly;” and from that day, we are told, the tower assumed the name which it still retains.
[295] Or, according to Mr. Thomas, 1720 feet.