The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester / To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon.

INDEX (2)

TO THE LIFE OF

THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.

Act of Parliament for the Water-commanding Engine, applied for, 253; proceedings in respect to, 254–256; royal assent given, 256; the Act, Appendix C.

Adams, Mr., Lord Herbert’s preceptor, 141.

Albemarle, Duke of, letter from, 268, 269; another letter, 277; names the Crown’s debts, 278; statement made to him of expenditure in the late King’s service, 278, 280.

Alchemy in vogue, 16.

Allen, Captain, taken at Padstow, with the Earl of Glamorgan’s dispatches, 124; promised assistance, 125; bearer of a letter, 126; Glamorgan reports Allen having been taken, 170.

Allowance of £3. per week, Cromwell’s Warrant for, 213.

Alonzo, Don, his answer, sent, 218.

Anne, Countess of Worcester, her death, 31.

Antonio, Captain, two frigates, 170.

Apocryphal passages relating to the Marquis of Worcester, Appendix H.

Aristocracy of the 17th century, social habits, 5; luxuries of the table, and of dress, 5.

Arlington, Lord, letter to, 269; the Marquis seeks his services, 274.

Arundel, Henry Frederick, Earl of; marries Anne, daughter of Edward Lord Herbert, 17.

Backhouse, Lieut. has command of war horses taken at Gloucester, 62.

Bacon, Lord, death of, 16.

Badminton House, Gloucestershire, visited by Charles II. and his Queen, 260.

Baker, Thomas, engineer, his Poem on “The Steam Engine,” 258; notice of “The Century,” 258, 259.

Balfour, Sir William, Lieutenant of the Tower, 25; commanded at Edge-hill, 25.

Bate, John, his work, 1634–35, 29; remarks on water-works, 29.

Bayly, Dr. Thomas, noticed, 9; relates a Welsh legend, and occurrence at Carnarvon, 94; chaplain at Raglan Castle, 96; his “Apophthegms,” 96; Lord Herbert’s water-works, 100, 101; his dedication of his book, 110, 111; relates a domestic incident, 149, 150; leaves Raglan Castle, 153; visits the Marquis at Covent Garden, 154; attends the Marquis’s funeral, 155.

Baynards Castle, correspondence from, respecting Henry Lord Herbert’s marriage, 1, 2, 3, 4.

Beauchamp, Mary, Lady; married to Lord Herbert, 220; Certificate, 220.

Beaufort, Henry, Duke of, his mother, 16, 17; his birth, death, and age, (note) 16; at six years of age, 23; ten years of age, 26; “a match propounded for” him, to his grandfather, by Charles I., 103; Petitions the House of Commons, 201; his property, 202, 203, 204; resolutions in regard to value, &c. 205, 206, 207; sat in the Cromwellian parliament, 210; his father’s estates in Monmouthshire enjoyed by Cromwell, 210; Cromwell’s caution, 210; marriage, 220; resident at Badminton House, 226; going to Dover, 226; letter to his wife, 226; a prisoner in the Tower, 233; letter to his wife, 233; his age, 233; constituted Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, 233; parliamentary clause in respect to his property, 238; ordered by Parliament to give up his father’s deeds and writings, 238; delivers a message to the Lords, 243; carries the bill to the Lords for the Water-commanding Engine, 256; visit of Charles II. and his Queen, 260; sits in the House of Peers, (note) 282; attests his father’s funeral Certificate, 300; letters patent granted him remitting payments due from his father, 303; a commissioner to distribute fund for poor Cavaliers, 317, 318; his progress through Wales, (note) 317; return to Badminton, (note) 318; published account of his progress, (note) 318.

Bedford, Lord of, 2.

Bedford, Earl of, Francis Russell, 6.

Bible, new translation published, 7.

Birch’s, Dr. statement about Glamorgan’s going to Wales, 87.

Blackfriars, the seat of fashion, 1; marriage of Lord Herbert there, 2; Queen Elizabeth’s stay there, 3; ceremony on arrival, 3; supper there, 4.

Blackstone, Sir Ralph, named, 141.

Blaxton, Sir William, assists to retake Monmouth, 63.

Bosdon, Edward, Glamorgan’s Instructions to, 87.

Boteler, Allen, his business from Charles I. to the Marquis of Worcester, at Raglan Castle, 142; his journey, 142; difficulties and dangers, 143; arrives at Raglan, 144; disappointment, 144; stern reception, 144; interview with the Marquis, 144, 145; who plainly declares his sentiments respecting Charles Ist’s treatment of his son, 145; neglected, and detained, leaves precipitately, 145, 146; his adventures, and return to Oxford, 146, 147.

Brecknock garrisoned, 60, 332.

Brereton, Roger, his letter to the Countess of Glamorgan, 129.

Brereton, Sir William, his letter-book, 87.

Brett, Sir Jeremiah, before Gloucester, 56.

Bridgewater, Earl of, named, 24.

Brompton Castle, council of war to take it, 58.

Burton, Thomas, M.P., reports on the Marchioness of Worcester’s Petition, 195; his remarks on the Marquis of Worcester’s character, being then a state prisoner, 212; his conduct that of a soldier, and always civil, 212.

Byron, Sir John, Lieutenant of the Tower, 23; named, 35, 36; his letters, July, 1642, 41, 42, 59; his regiment, 67; named, 328, 330, 331.

Bythell, John, his letter to his father, about the Earl of Glamorgan and others, 88; escapes shipwreck, his cargo of corn seized, 90; a prisoner, 90, 91; list of passengers and crew, 92.

Calehof, Calthoff, Caltrop, Colthoff—see Kaltoff.

Cardiff garrisoned, 60; named, 328, 332.

Carlyon garrisoned, 60, 332.

Carte and Dr. Birch’s erroneous statement about Glamorgan’s leaving for Ireland, 93; corrected, 93.

Carnarvon, Robert Earl of, marriage of his sister Elizabeth to Edward Lord Herbert, 16; her death, 23.

Castlemaine, Lady, undertakes a request to the King, 275.

Catholic Clergy, Irish Roman, 114, 115, 119; Glamorgan solicits consent for post of Lord Lieutenant, 181; Glamorgan’s complicity with, 184; great secrecy observed, 184.

Catholic Princes, Roman, with the Pope, to supply £30,000, to support an army in England, in the cause of Charles I. 228; Glamorgan’s power to treat, 229.

Catholic, Roman, Lord Lieutenant, 115.

Catholic, Roman, Religion, Glamorgan’s engagement to support measures for the good of, 160.

Catholic, Roman, countries, support from, 84.

Catholics, Roman, indulgences granted, 232; Jesuits excepted, 232; the Marquis of Worcester derived no assistance from, 327, 328.

Catholics, Roman, Irish, inquiry respecting, 122; Charles Ist repudiates the concessions made to, 130; his letter to Ormond, 131; negotiations with, repudiated by Secretary Nicholas, 132; the whole party astounded at these abortive results, 161; diminished hopes, Charles I. in custody at Newcastle, 175.

Catholics, Roman, laws against, 27.

Caus, De Salomon, his works, 29.

Cavaliers, Act providing for poor, 247; fund for, 317.

Century of Inventions, a Catalogue raisonnÉ, 17; written, 214; MS. copy in the British Museum, 221; first publication, 258; Poetical notice of, 258, 259.

Charles the First, his birth, 5; first year of his reign, 12; witnesses the wheel experiment at the Tower, 25; character of his reign, 25; 15th year, 31; the Long Parliament, 31; return from Scotland, 32; retreat to Hampton Court, 32; at Royston, 33; at Hull, 34; flatters the Earl of Worcester, 35; his movements in 1641, 35; Civil War declared, 37; makes a convenience of the Marquis of Worcester for his wealth, 38; his perfidious nature, 38; members of Parliament summoned to attend at the Banqueting House, 1640, 38; borrows money from the Marquis of Worcester, 41; journey to Leicester, 42; £5,000 sent for him to Newstead, 42; “hopes he shall not die in the Marquis’s debt,” 42; report from the King at Nottingham of his message by Lord Herbert to his father, 44, 45, 46; Charles I. and Lord Herbert pourtrayed, 46, 47; his tortuous policy, 55; certain early loans from the Marquis of Worcester, 58, 59; at York, 59; commission of Array, 59; attended by the Marquis of Hertford at Oxford, 67; inconsistencies in his conduct, 69; liberal in promises, 69; battle of Edge-hill, 69; sends the Earl of Glamorgan the Blue Ribbon, and a warrant for the title of Duke of Somerset, 74; assures Glamorgan “you labour for a dear friend,” 75; wonders he has not gone to Ireland, 75; artful letter to Ormond, 78; his deceptive style, 79; profuse in professions of attachment, 81; why selected for this negociation, 81; reassures Glamorgan of his confidence in him, 82; at Hereford, 83; visits Raglan Castle, 104; the fickle monarch a false friend, 105; reception, 105; returns to the Castle, 106; his third visit, 106; in all 27 days, 106; discourse with the Marquis, 106; presented with a dessert from Troy, 108; deprives the Marquis of £6,000 deposited with his son, 109, 110; his engagement of Glamorgan characterized, 116; disasters in war, 117; looks to Ireland for assistance, 117; his urgent necessities, 117; his plan for realizing his hopes in Ireland, 118; repudiates Glamorgan’s proceedings in Ireland, 122; Hume’s notice, 122, 123; Carte’s charge, 123; the King’s duplicity, 123; 6,000 men ready to leave Ireland, 126; his message to Parliament, 130; writes to the Queen about “Glamorgan’s business,” 134; his letter to “Glamorgan,” 134; his consummate duplicity, 135; charged by the Marquis of Worcester with being “wavering and fickle,” 145, 148; his character, 157; creates the Earl of Glamorgan, “Duke of Somerset and Beaufort,” 162; the patent, 162, 163; his confidence in Glamorgan not misplaced, 167; his perfect acquaintance with the Marquis and his son, 167; writes from Newcastle, 174; not strictly guarded, 174; offers to pawn his kingdoms, 174; a copy sent to the Pope, 174; Glamorgan devises a plan for his escape to Ireland, 175; the King’s treatment of the noble family of Somerset, 184; delivered up by the Scots, 1647, 189; his execution, 189; the Marquis of Worcester explains his conduct and powers in Ireland, to Lord Clarendon, 227; an immense army was to have been raised, 228; and the Pope and Catholic Princes were to supply £30,000 per month for its maintenance, 228; hence the “amplitude of Glamorgan’s commission,” 228; the signing and sealing, 229; to Huntingdon, 330; to Nottingham, to York, 330; the Tower, 330; his note of hand, 331; money at Oxford, 332.

Charles the First’s correspondence; his letter, August, 1641, 32; December, 1641, 33; “lying pamphlets,” 33; March, 1641–2, 33; May, 1642, 34; January, 1642, 39; June, 1643, 64; his patent granted to the Earl of Glamorgan, 70; his instructions to him, 72; letter, February, 1644, 74; March, 1644, 75; December, 1644, 78; Commission to Glamorgan, March, 1644, 79, 80; February, 1645, 82; June, 1645, 82, 83; August, 1644, 102; August, 1644, 104; January, 1645–6; March, 1645–6, 133; Feb. 1645, 134; July, 1646, 174.

Charles the Second, court at Paris, 189; its changes, 189; its poverty at St. Germains, 189; at Jersey, 207; in Scotland, 207; in France, 207; Louis XIV. of France, favourable to, 209; supposed to have sent the Marquis of Worcester from France to London, 210; the Marquis of Worcester had presented him with an ingeniously contrived box, 223; proclaimed, 225; his return and rejoicings, 226; Marquis of Worcester’s petition to have his case investigated by Parliament, 231; the King and Queen’s progress, 231, 232; a christening at Worcester House, 232; his coronation, 232; homage of the nobles, 232; sketch of his character, and that of the Marquis, 234; attends the House of Lords, 243; personally prorogues it, 243; ceremony, 244; one-tenth of the Water-commanding engine granted to him, 257; remitted on the Marquis surrendering a warrant granting land to the value of £40,000, 257; the Marquis’s petition to, 269; another, 271; draft of a letter to, 277; coolness towards the Marquis, 295; characteristic traits of his majesty, 307, 308; his apathy retards the development of the steam engine, 308.

Chester, City of, 3,000 men expected for its relief, 85; rumours of its being taken, 85; men for its relief, 114; Glamorgan writes about relief, 125; 6,000 Irish ready for, 126; 3,000 men reported ready, 135; loss of, 138; Glamorgan’s hopes of relief, 160; its surrender, 161.

Chepstow fortified, 60; belongs to the Marquis of Worcester of inheritance, 66; named, 328, 332.

Christening present, a, 2.

Civil War, aspect of affairs, 1641, 37; series of national disasters, 43; party distinctions, 43; ancient warfare, 53, 54; perplexing state of the war, 69; the gain and loss by, 186; intellectual losses, incalculable, 186.

Cipher, letter written in, 180; a sentence in, 333.

Clarendon, Earl of, resided at Worcester House, 192; Marquis of Worcester’s letter of explanations to, 227; offer of Worcester House, 235; his residence, (note), 237; at Worcester House, 260, 261; visited by Evelyn, 261.

Cobham, Lord, his house at Blackfriars, 3; Queen Elizabeth to stay there, 3; attends the Queen at the water-side, 3; her majesty sups at his house, 4; leads the bride (Miss Russell) to church, 4.

Coke, John, his letter, 24.

Copley, Christopher, named in a Bill for settling Worcester House on the Marchioness of Worcester, 196; may have instigated the writing of the “Century,” 215; in the army, 215; letter from the Marquis of Worcester, 215; interested in the engine, 216; obtains a written obligation from the Marquis of Worcester, 216; he “doth undermine Worcester House,” 235; named, 301; some account of him, Appendix E.

Cornwall, Report of the Duchy of, survey of Vauxhall, 289, 290, 291; other Reports, Appendix G.

Cosmo de Medici the Third, visits Vauxhall to see the Marquis’s Engine, 302.

Council, the new, of confederate Irish Roman Catholics; Glamorgan solicits consent for the post of Lord Lieutenant, 181.

Council, the Supreme, of confederate Irish Roman Catholics, Archbishop of Tuam’s death, 115; order for his arrears, 116; disclosures, 116; inquiry respecting, 121; agreement discovered, 124; published, 124; press for Glamorgan’s liberation, 135; visited by Glamorgan on his liberation, 136; exorbitant demands, 136; Glamorgan desires its good opinion, 165; wearied of the army expenses, 165; resolve against sending troops over to England, 165.

Cromwell, Oliver, Bill respecting Worcester House to be tendered to him, 196; gives his assent, 196; his directions sought in respect to payment, 197; he is satisfied, 198; enjoyed the Marquis of Worcester’s Monmouthshire estates, 210; warns his wife respecting Lord Herbert, 210; his Warrant to allow the Marquis £3. per week, 213; the Marquis seeks an interview with him, 217; his death, and his son’s brief career, 225; deeds delivered up, 247; Herbert, his “right-hand” man, 249; his Warrant, Appendix F.

Cromwell, Richard, ordered to give up deeds and writings, 238.

Cromwell, Elizabeth, letter to her, respecting Lord Herbert, 210; ordered to give up deeds and writings, 238.

Culpepper, Lord, letter from the Earl of Glamorgan, 125.

Cumberland, Earl of, leads the bride (Lady Herbert) from church, 4.

Dean, Forest of, garrisoned, 60; Lord Herbert entering, 62; Sir John Winter “the plague of the forest,” 63; the rebels quit, 63; taken by Lord Herbert, 66; named, 328, 332.

Dee, Dr. John, his curious preface to “Euclid,” 26.

Definition of the Water-commanding Engine, 223; published, Appendix C.

Digby, George, Lord, charges the Earl of Glamorgan with high treason, 116; Glamorgan writes to his wife, mentioning him, 128; named also by R. Brereton, 129; Charles Ist’s commands to, 131; Glamorgan informs him of his business in going to France, 138; approves Glamorgan’s resolution, 178.

Dormer, Sir William, marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to Edward, Lord Herbert, 16; her death, 23.

—— Robert, Lord, of Weng, father of Sir William Dormer, 16; 23.

Drebble, his stove, 264.

Edge-hill, soldiers furnished the King, by the Marquis of Worcester, 67; named, 328.

Edward, Lord Herbert—see Worcester.

Edward, fourth Earl of Worcester—see Somerset, also Worcester.

Edward, second Marquis of Worcester—see Somerset, also Worcester.

Elizabeth, Lady Worcester, her death recorded, 8.

Elizabeth, Lady Herbert, first wife of Edward Lord Herbert (afterwards sixth Earl of Worcester), 16; mother of Henry, Duke of Beaufort, 16; her two daughters, 17; her portrait, 21, 22; her death, 22; funeral certificate, 23; sister of Robert, Earl of Carnarvon, 299.

Elizabeth. Queen, her Court at Greenwich, 1; her leave obtained for Lord Herbert and Miss Russell’s marriage, 2; the Queen to appoint the day, 2; promises her presence, 3; arrives at Blackfriars, 3; carried in a Lectica, 3; present at a masque, 4; danced on the occasion, 4; her death, 5.

Engineering, early, in England, 18.

Engineers, foreign, usually employed, 18.

England, state of art and science from 1640 noticed, 188.

Fairfax, Sir Thomas, his dragoons at Padstow, obtains the Earl of Glamorgan’s despatches, 124; opinion of Charles Ist’s message to Parliament, 130; sends his summons to the Marquis of Worcester, 151; takes great interest in the mining approaches to Raglan Castle, 152; concludes terms with the Marquis, 152; ratified, 153; Raglan Castle surrendered, 153; entertained at Bath, 154.

Fernes, the Roman Catholic Bishop of, Chancellor of the Congregation, 183 —see Father Nugent.

Finch, Heneage, his report on a Petition, 273.

Fitzwilliams, Col., named, 114.

Foster, Captain William, letter in respect to, 249.

Galileo prosecuted at Rome, 27, 28; his death, 31.

Glamorgan, Edward Somerset, Earl of, patent privily granted, 70; copy of the patent, 70, 71, 72; was acknowledged by Charles II. 72; his instructions from Charles I., 72, 73, 74; dispatches for Ireland, 74; Charles I. acknowledges £250,000, 74; sends him the Blue Ribbon and Warrant for the title of Duke of Somerset, 74; detained at home, 75; his respectful letter to his father, August, 1644, 76, 77; termination of his military career in Wales, 77; Charles Ist’s pretence to doubt his “judgment,” 78; his Commission to raise troops in Ireland, 79, 80; visits Ireland, 82; in Ireland, 82; letter to Ormond, 83; estimates his navy and army expenses at £100,000, 84; expects 3000 men from Chester, 85; letter to Ormond, 86; going to Waterford, 86; has laid an embargo on shipping at Wexford, 86; a biographical error corrected, 87; letter of John Bythell, 87; named as “Lord Herbert,” in Bythell’s letter, 88; at Carnarvon, a Welsh legend, 94; his regiment of horse, 105; second visit to Ireland, 112; his commissions, warrant, and patent, 112; Ormond notes his noble ends and apparent dangers, 113; and his “judgment,” 114; secret negotiations, 115; their failure, 115; his treaty found out, 116; charged with high treason, 116; a close prisoner in Dublin Castle, 116; his examination, 119; inquiry respecting his oath, 122; did not unduly use his great powers, 123; deceived by the King, 123; his letters and papers taken at Padstow, 124; publication of his agreement with the Irish Roman Catholics, 124; copy of his oath, 124; has 6000 Irish ready, 126; his letter to his wife, 127; his imprisonment, 127–129; Charles I. repudiates his proceedings to Ormond, 131; Secretary Nicholas writes to Ormond to the same effect, 131; vindicates the King, 132; a second letter, repudiating his powers and patent, 133; Charles Ist’s letter to the Queen on this affair, 134; the King’s letter to him, 134; set at liberty, 135; his bail, 136; writes to Ormond that he shall go to France. 136; presses for a continuance of the cessation, 137; withholds his motion from the Supreme Council, 137; Sir V. Molineux will accompany him to France, 137; desires Ormond’s co-operation, 138; has informed Lord Digby, 138; his purchase of a ship, ordnance and stores, 138; expects to return with a fleet, 138; learns the loss of Chester, 138; continues in Ireland, 139; his father indifferently informed of his operations there, 142; at Kilkenny, 157; his letter to the Nuncio, 158; a peace proposed to be approved by the Pope, 159; the raising of 7000 men to be conditional, 159; his projected visit to Italy, 159; engages a large supply of money, men, arms, and ships, 160; wrote to Charles I. hoping to relieve Chester, 160; seeming friends industriously hinder him, 161; relies on his Majesty’s “right interpretation,” 161; his imprisonment declared a mere colourable affair, 162; created “Duke of Somerset and Beaufort,” 162; the patent, 162, 163; recital of his martial deeds, 162; his remarks on the state of affairs, 164; he apologizes for the King’s declaration, 164; the King’s instructions, 164; desires the good opinion of the Supreme Council, 165; designed going to Rome, 165; his letter to Father Nugent expressive of bitter disappointment and mental anguish, 166; his operations virtually terminated, 166, 167; perfect consistency of his conduct, 167; had to deal with a grasping party, 168; overmatched by Ormond, Digby, and others, 168; opposition between his own views and those of his party, 168; his spotless rectitude, 168; he wrote to Ormond, 168; reports the taking of Captain Allen, 170; expects his own and other letters to be printed, 170; reports several ships, 170; his offer if joined by Ormond and the Supreme Council, 171; the King’s “bugbear declaration,” 171; Ormond’s approving answer, 172; his brother in Italy, 175; the King’s declaration “enforced upon him,” 176; the intended articles he pronounces invalid, 177; his bail in no danger, 177; is debarred from calling on Ormond, 178; his handwriting, 179; address of a letter written in cipher, 179, 180; scarcity of his autograph, 181; patent to appoint him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 181; his going to Rome, 181; soliciting the post of Lord Lieutenant, 181; “of a very mild temper,” 182; “attached to the Apostolic See,” 182; and “bound to it by oath and promises,” 182; his oath, 182; apprised of his father’s decease, 184 —see also Edward, Earl and 2nd Marquis of Worcester.

Glamorgan, Countess of, her husband’s letter from Dublin Castle, 127; incident relating to her at Raglan Castle, 149, 150; leaves Raglan Castle, 153; a pass granted her to Ireland, 184 —see also Margaret, Marchioness of Worcester.

Gloucester, Lord Herbert before, 56; stoutly defended, 56; summoned by Prince Rupert, 56; its reduction attempted, 56; Lord Herbert’s horses seized, 60, 61, 62; named, 328; troops raised against, 333.

Goodrich Castle garrisoned, 60; taken by Lord Herbert, 328, 332.

Gower, the Poet, quoted, 108; works mentioned, 145; Appendix K.

Greenwich, Queen Elizabeth’s court at, 1; letter from, 3; the Queen’s return to court, 4.

Greenwich, Charles I. at, 35.

Hall, John, the Marquis’s petition in respect of, 271; case, 273; named, 288.

Hall, Henry, the Marquis’s petition in respect of, 271.

Hamilton, Marquis of, Master of the Horse, 36.

Hamilton, Duke of, named, 25.

Hanneman’s painting of a family group, 30; noticed, 311.

Harley, Lady, her Diary, 56, 57, 64.

Hartlib, Samuel, notice of Vauxhall, 266; states the “Earl of Worcester is buying Vauxhall,” 267.

Hazilrigge, Bart., Sir Arthur, named, 42.

Henrietta Maria, Queen, at Paris, her present of jewels to the Marquis of Worcester, 313 —see Queen Dowager.

Henry, Duke of Beaufort—see Beaufort.

Henry, 1st Marquis of Worcester—see Somerset, also Worcester.

Herbert, Edward, of the Grange, 249.

Herbert, Henry, Lord—see Henry, Earl and Marquis of Worcester.

Herbert, Anne, Lady, her marriage gifts and portion, 4; daughter of John Lord Russell, 5; mother of 13 children, 6; her relative Lady Morrison, 7.

Herbert, Margaret, Lady (afterwards Countess of Glamorgan), her marriage, 30; her portrait, in a family group, 30; her infant daughter, Mary, 30; pass granted her to France, 187 —see Worcester, Margaret, Marchioness of.

Herbert of Cardiffe, Lord; leads the bride (Miss Russell) to church, 4.

Hereford garrisoned, 6; Governor of, 64; the city taken by Lord Herbert, 66; named, 332.

Hero of Alexandria, his “Spiritalia,” 29.

Hertford, Marquis of, 40, 55; defeat in the West, 67; supplied with recruits, 67; Dukedom of Somerset confirmed to him, 243; named, 328; forces a loan to, 332.

Hervey discovers the circulation of the blood, 7.

Hill, Richard, a purchaser of the Marquis of Worcester’s estates, 193.

Holland, Lord, named, 59.

Hook, Dr., ridicules the engine; 292; laughs at it, 294; his character, 294.

Hooper, Captain, the engineer, mining at the siege of Raglan Castle, 151; progress of his approaches, 152.

Hopton, Lord, letter from the Earl of Glamorgan, 126.

Huntingdon, Charles I. at, 58.

Huntingdon, Francis Hastings, Earl of, death of his daughter, wife of Edward, 4th Earl of Worcester, 8; letter from the Earl of Worcester, 12.

Inventions, Century of, written, 214; the manuscript, 221; patent for four, 248; list of, 249; state of the knowledge of, 293.

Inventions of the Earl of Worcester, Appendix A.

Inventions, the Marquis of Worcester’s patent for four, Appendix B.

Ireland, visited in 1642 by the Earl of Glamorgan, 82; the King is glad he is there, 82; second visit, 112; Ormond notes the Italian Bishop’s reception, 113; to raise 10,000 men, 114; packet boat from, boarded at Padstow, 124; Fairfax’s report of this, 127; the Marquis of Worcester expects benefit to Ireland through the Queen, 185; he leaves Ireland, 185; the Marquis’s journey, 333.

Ireland, rebellion in, 69; Charles I.’s Commission to the Earl of Glamorgan, to raise troops in, 79, 80; Glamorgan’s visit to, 81, 112.

Irish army, new levied, to disband, 39.

Irish Roman Catholics, offer to raise troops, 77; difficulties arise out of their demands, 77; the King’s narrow policy, 77; Charles I.’s warrant to Glamorgan to treat and conclude with the confederates, 80, 81.

James I., the Pope’s bulls, 5; reprimands Henry, Earl of Worcester, on his daughter being a nun, 6; the King proclaimed, 7; his reign, 11.

Jesuits excepted in the indulgence granted to Roman Catholics, 232; the Jesuits represent their case, 232; Henry, Marquis of Worcester, a Penitent of the Society, 232.

Jones, Lady, and Sir Philip, leave Raglan Castle, 153.

Jones, William, Steward of Raglan, 142.

Kaltoff, Caspar, a practical working engineer or machinist, so engaged, 17; water-work s at Raglan Castle, 19; eleven years service, 29; named by the Marquis, 262; stated to be a Dutchman, 266; employed making guns, 266; inventions and models there, 266; visited by Dr. Hook, 293; superintending works, 301; he and his wife (1672) lately deceased, 305; their children, 305; his son-in-law, Peter Jacobson, 305; documents relating to, Appendix G.

Keneys, Bart., Sir Michael, Governor of Chepstow, 142.

Kennet’s relation concerning Henry Earl of Worcester’s daughter being a nun, 6; remarks on Edward, Marquis of Worcester, his exile and return, 209, 210.

Kirle, Colonel, his siege operations, 149.

Kuffler, Dr., his furnace, 264.

Lenthall, John, letter from, 221; has received a present, and acknowledges his fees, 221.

Leyburn, Father George, and the Marquis of Worcester leave Ireland, 185.

Lingard, Dr. on Charles I.’s warrant to the Earl of Glamorgan, 135.

London in 1625–1636, coaches, hackney coaches, streets, pillory, whipping, mutilations, the plague, 27; fortified in 1643, 189; Charles delivered up by the Scots, 1647, 189; and his execution, 189; the Commonwealth established, 189; public taste curtailed, 189; the Plague, 285.

Lotherdale, Earl of, letter to, from the Marquis of Worcester, 223; promises him an ingenious box, 223.

Louis XIV., of France, favourable to Charles II., 209.

Marriage gifts to Lady Herbert, 4; a mock, at Raglan Castle, 97.

Masque on occasion of Lord Herbert’s marriage to Miss Russell, 3; ladies, characters, and dresses, 3; the dance and address to the Queen, 4; her Majesty joined in the dance, 4.

Mathews, Sir Toby, named, 141.

Mazarine, Cardinal, the Marquis of Worcester recommended to him, 188; opposed to Louis XIV. attempting the restoration of Charles II. 210; presented the Marquis to the King, 281; his gracious remark, 281.

Mechanical knowledge in the 17th century, 14.

Milford Haven, Parliament ships in, 65.

Milton born, 7.

Molineux, Sir Vivian, will accompany the Earl of Glamorgan to France, 137.

Monconis, M. de, named by SorbiÈre, 263; reports new inventions, 263, 264.

Monmouth, fortified, 60; Lord Herbert before, 63; Waller’s success, 63; alarm, 63; Marquis of Worcester’s efforts, 63; saved by the Marquis, 66; taken by Lord Herbert, 66; named, 328; fortified, 332.

Monmouthshire, Cromwell enjoys the Marquis of Worcester’s estates in, 210; his letter touching the same, 210.

Monopolists, prejudices against, 293.

Montgomeryshire, raising troops in, 64.

Moore, Lord John, Kennington, 286.

Morgan, Colonel, at Worcester, 149; at Landenny, 149; his regiment, 151.

Morley, Thomas, Lord, died 1416, 96.

Morrison, Lady, in the Friars, 7.

Myddleton, Sir Hugh, forms the New River, 8.

Napier, Lord, his system of logarithms, 7.

Naseby, battle of, 104.

Newport, named, 328.

Newstead, money to be sent privately to, for Charles I. 41.

Nicholas, Secretary, letter to Ormond, 131; denounces Lord Herbert’s negotiations in Ireland, 132; his second letter, 133.

Northampton, Earl of, named, 24.

Nottingham. Charles I. at, 44, 58.

Nugent, Father Robert, Superior of the Jesuits in Ireland, the Earl of Glamorgan’s letter expressing his distress, 165; named, 183.

O’Brien, Henry, Earl of Thomond, his daughter Margaret’s marriage, 30; his petition, 196; named, 300.

O’Neill, Mr. named, 113.

Ormond, Marquis of, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as respects concluding a peace, the King empowers Glamorgan to act, 73, 75, 77; the King’s letter to, Dec. 1644, 78; Glamorgan’s letter to, 83; recommends to conciliate the Nuncio, 84; about Chester, 85; and 10,000 men, 85; Chester holds out, 86; letter from Glamorgan, 86; letter to, 113; stretch of authority, 113; approves Glamorgan’s “judgment,” 114; his continued civility to the Earl, 115; his suspicions aroused, 115; his warrant to commit the Earl of Glamorgan to Dublin Castle, 116; letter from Secretary Nicholas, 131; repudiates Lord Herbert’s negotiations, 132; second letter, 133; repudiates his powers and patent, 133; letter from Glamorgan, 136; who intends going to France, 136; and presses for a continuance of the cessation, 137; Glamorgan seeks his co-operation, 138; in England, 147; letter from Glamorgan, 168; his large and noble offer, 171; an approving reply, 172, 173; letter from Glamorgan, 175; commends his wisdom, 177; letter from Glamorgan, 178; leaves Dublin, goes to Hampton Court, 184; living at Acton, and goes thence to France, 187; waits on the Queen, 187; meets the Countess of Glamorgan, (Marchioness of Worcester), 188; her ill-timed resentment, 188.

Papist, the Marquis charged with being a, 55.

Papists, and notorious malignants, 192; warrants for seizing their estates, 192.

Papists, Parliamentary order for disarming, 43; repudiated, and yet countenanced by Charles I., 69; Charles II.’s declaration to banish, 294.

Paris, Marquis of Worcester leaves Ireland for, 185; Lady Herbert (Marchioness of Worcester), has a pass to, 187; Ormond flies to, 187; Marchioness of Worcester at, 188; Charles II.’s court at, 189; the Marquis of Worcester at, 189; full of loyal fugitives, 190.

Parliament, Henry Lord Herbert summoned to, 7; Parliamentary duties, 8; dispensation to be absent, 8; the Long, 31; jealous of Lord Herbert, 36; notice the Marquis of Worcester and Lord Herbert, 38; order to disarm them, 43; Lord Herbert’s offer in reference to the Commission of Array, 59; professes his determination, 60; summons Lord Herbert to appear, 60; and his father, 61; ordinance affecting Papists, 192; contract in pursuance of such ordinance, 193; orders the disposal of Worcester House, 194; petitioned by the Marchioness of Worcester, 194; report on the petition, 195; further report, 198; order to pay £6. per week to the Marchioness of Worcester, 191; reference to Committee, 199; order, 199; an Act, 199; order regarding pension, 199; order for possession of Worcester House, 199; order on Henry Lord Herbert’s petition, 202; question on his delinquency, 204; petition refused, 204; report, 205; resolutions, 205; persons banished by, and their property confiscated, 209; resolutions on, 209; orders the imprisonment of the Marquis of Worcester, 211; on his petition order for his enlargement, 212; sufficient bail to be taken, 212.

Parliament—at the Restoration.
House of Lords, Marchioness of Worcester’s petition about Worcester House, 235; restoration of the Marquis’s estate ordered, 238; discuss the subject of his patent creating him Duke of Somerset, 239; referred to Lords named, 240; a committee reports, 240; message to House of Commons, 241; increase of committee, 241; the Patent delivered up, 242; Bill in respect to Patents and Grants, 242; a message from the Commons, 243; Marquis of Worcester’s attendances, 243, 244; prorogued, 244; re-opening, 244; Act for the Water-commanding engine, 253; second reading, 254; Lords’ committee (note), 254; passed, 256; attendances, 282.
House of Commons, message from the Lords, 241; a message to the Lords, 243; report on the Bill for the Water-commanding engine, 255; Commons’ Committee, 255; Bill returned to the Lords, 256; passed, 256.

Parliament, Act of, for the Water-commanding engine, Appendix C.

Parliament ships reported to be in Milford Haven, 65.

Patent, Marquis of Worcester’s, for four inventions, 248; Appendix B.

Patents and grants, Bill in reference to, 242.

Peacham, Henry, on mechanical knowledge, 14; his praise of Geometry, 14, 15; automata, 15.

Pembroke, Earl of, his town of Carlyon, 332.

Pembroke, Earl of, magazine from, 60.

Pennoyer, William, and Richard Hill, large purchasers of the Marquis of Worcester’s estates, 193; Parliamentary resolutions in respect to the Marquis of Worcester’s estates conveyed to them, 205.

“Peter,” John Bythell, commander of the, his letter to his father, 88; escapes shipwreck, but the cargo of corn seized, 90; list of crew and passengers, 92; made prisoners, 92.

Petitions, &c. dated 1665, Appendix I.

Pigot, Colonel, letter from R. Brereton, 130; send him a letter for the Countess of Glamorgan, at Raglan, 180.

Pope, the, his bulls, 5; to be conciliated, 84; his bull, 116; secret negotiations, 158; a peace, to his approval, 159; his treaty to be pre-eminent, 160; a copy of Charles I.’s letter, 174; Lord John Somerset to be sent on a mission to, 184; with Catholic Princes to supply £30,000 per month to maintain an army in England, 228; Glamorgan had power to treat accordingly, 229.

Pope’s Nuncio, the, to be conciliated, 84; Glamorgan’s letter to, 158; secret negotiations proposed by Glamorgan, 158; articles on the part of his Holiness and the King, 159; Glamorgan’s engagement, 159; to name an Admiral, 160; Glamorgan agrees with him to confer certain titles, 160; his letter, 181; promoting Glamorgan’s solicitations for post of Lord Lieutenant, 181; expects Dublin to be taken, 182; important to appoint a Catholic so highly approved, 182; the King’s appointment, 182; it is contemplated to transport the Holy Faith into England by arms, 182; and by the Earl, a perfect Catholic, 182; Glamorgan’s oath, 182, 183.

Popish recusants, order to disband, 39.

Popish army, rumours of a, 55.

Powis, William Herbert, Marquis of, marries Elizabeth, second daughter of Edward, Lord Herbert, 17.

Present, a christening, 2.

Projectors and monopolists, 31.

Pudding, Dr., Queen Elizabeth passing through his house is presented with a fan, 4.

Queen Dowager of England, her remark at the Court of France, in respect to the Marquis of Worcester, 281.

Raglan Castle, noticed, 8; becomes the residence of Henry, Earl of Worcester, 8, 10; distinguished as a luxurious residence, 12; described, 48; distant view of, 49; ancient portions, 51, 52, 53; garrisoned, 53; ancient warfare, 53; Lord Herbert obtains troops and stores, 57; Countess of Glamorgan there, 95; its garrison, 95; ancient remains, 95, 95; character of the family and servants there, 96; a mock wedding and masque, 96; visited by Charles I., 104; military operations, 140; the Marquis’s apartments, 140; arrival of Allan Boteler with a message from Charles I., his reception., 144, 145; detained, and precipitate departure, 146, 147; the siege, 149; a skirmish, 150, 151; mining approaches, 151; the garrison makes desperate sallies, 151; cessation of arms, 152; the castle in jeopardy, 152; terms of surrender concluded, 153; evacuated and delivered up to General Fairfax, 153; departure of the Marquis, his family, friends, and retainers, 153, 154; stores, furniture, &c. found there, 154; letters and papers ordered to London, 155; the castle ordered to be “pulled down and destroyed,” 156; named, 328, 332; expense of garrison, 333.

Raglan Church, burial of Edward Marquis of Worcester and his wife Elizabeth, 8; “St. Cadocus,” 22; Elizabeth, Lady Herbert’s funeral, 22; described, 96; the Marquis of Worcester buried at, 295; views of, 296, 297.

Ramelli’s works, 1588, 29.

Redman, James, Worcester house, 27.

Restoration, the, 226; coronation, 232; prospects of the Marquis of Worcester at the, 234; characters of Charles II. and the Marquis contrasted, 234; advance of science, 253.

Richmond, Duke of, named, 25.

Rinuccini, the Pope’s Nuncio, gives the Marquis of Worcester an introduction to Cardinal Mazarine, 188.

Rollock, James, “an ancient servant,” 336.

Rome, visit to Claudius at, 18; Galileo prosecuted at, 27, 28; agent’s letters from, 116.

Roundhead party, 31.

Royal Society, established, and incorporated, 253; proceedings noticed by M. de Monconis, 263; Dr. Hook redicules the Marquis’s engine, and may have influenced members unfavourably, 294.

Royalist party, 31.

Rupert, Prince, Gloucester summoned by, 57; at Bristol, 57; letter from Lord Herbert, 62; Lord Herbert’s dispatch, 64, 65; offered Forest of Dean miners, 65; his warrant to the Marquis of Worcester, 65, 66.

Russell, Francis, Earl of Bedford, 6.

Russell, Lord John, named, 5.

Russell, Miss Anne, report of her marriage to Henry Lord Herbert, 1; letters about her marriage, 2; her marriage at Blackfriars, 2; the feast, 3; ceremony and gifts, 4. See Anne Lady Herbert.

Russell, Lady, marriage preparations for her daughter, 2; Queen Elizabeth carried to her house in a Lectica, 3; her great and plentiful entertainment, continued for three days, 4; her relative Lady Morrison, 7.

Rutland, Earl of, leads the bride (Lady Herbert) from church, 4.

Sandford, Francis, Pursuivant at Arms, at the Marquis’s funeral, 297; account of him, 297, 298; takes the Marquis’s funeral certificate, 300.

Seventeenth Century, popular superstitions, 339.

Shakespeare died, 7.

Siri, Vittorio, opinion of Charles I.’s message to Parliament, 130.

Somerset, Lord John, to be sent on a mission to the Pope, 184; disposal of property by Parliament, 193; Patent delivered up, 242; named, 288.

Somerset, Sir John, second son, 6, 9, 43; conveys £5,000 to Newstead, 42; levying 500 horse, 42; in command before Gloucester, 56; named in Bythell’s letter, 88; his father deposits £6000 with him, 109; Charles I. obtains it on promise of repayment, 109; subscribes articles, 120.

Somerset, Thomas, named, 6.

Somerset, Charles, governor of Raglan Castle, 6, 9, 53; leaves Raglan Castle, 153.

Somerset, Frederick, his baptism, 6.

Somerset, Charles, 1st Marquis of Worcester, his autograph, (note) 309; his marriages and death, 309, 310.

Somerset, Henry, Lord Herbert—see Beaufort, Duke of.

Somerset, William, died 1589, 96.

Somerset House, hydraulic work on, 265 and 302.

Somerset, Edward, died 1628, 96.

Somerset, Duke of, patent in respect to the title of, 239; Lords’ Committee to consider, 240; conditions not fulfilled, 240; the patent acknowledged and to be surrendered, 241; committee, 241; Marquis of Hertford, his title of Duke of Somerset confirmed, 243.

Somerset, Henry, 2nd Marquis of Worcester, 310.

Somerset, William, 3rd Marquis of Worcester, 310.

Somerset, Edward, 4th Marquis of Worcester, 310.

Somerset, Henry, 5th and 1st Marquis of Worcester, 310.

Somerset, Edward, 6th and 2nd Marquis of Worcester, 310.

SorbiÈre, M. Samuel, his book, 262; criticised by Dr. Sprat, 263; names M. de Monconis, 263; and new inventions, 264; visits Vauxhall to see the Marquis of Worcester’s engine, 264; notices the waterworks at Somerset House, 265.

Sprat, Dr., criticises SorbiÈre, 263.

St. Cadocus.—see Raglan Church.

Sydney, Sir Robert, correspondence, 2.

Theobalds, Charles I. to, 35, 58.

Thomond, Earl of.—see Henry O’Brien, Earl of Thomond.

Thurloe, Secretary, letter from the Marquis of Worcester, 217.

Tisser, Ann, a widow, in possession of the Gate-house of Worcester House, resists giving up possession, 239; is charged with contempt and speedily ejected, 293.

Tower of London, Marquis of Worcester, his great experiment there before Charles I., 24, 25, 26; committed a prisoner to, 211; enlarged, 212; Lord Herbert, committed a prisoner, 233; his letter from the Tower, 233; Captain William Foster a prisoner, 249; the Marquis’s letter, 250; his “six years’ experience,” 251; period of the Marquis’s imprisonment considered, 252.

Travers, William, Roman Catholic Priest, his letter to the Dowager Marchioness of Worcester, Appendix D.

Troy House, 6, 9; fruit from, 109.

Tuam, Roman Catholic Archbishop of, his death, 115; papers found, 116.

Vandyck, painter, 21; his portraits, 21, 22.

Vauxhall, treating for, 213; the Marquis may have resided there, 261; SorbiÈre’s visit, 262; his notice, 264; designation of, 265; notice of by Hartlib, 266; “the Earl of Worcester is buying Vauxhall,” 267; Petition respecting, 286; £50,000 expended there in experiments, 286; survey of land and works, 289–291; Dr. Hook’s visit, 292; visited by Cosmo de Medici the Third, 302; summary of work there for 7 years, 337; documents relating to, Appendix G.

Vavasour, Colonel, with Lord Herbert, raising troops, 64; Governor of Hereford, 64.

Vavasour, Sir William, 65, 333.

Venice, visit to the arsenal at, 18.

Waller, Sir William, defeats Lord Herbert before Gloucester, 56, 57; prisoners taken, 57; before Monmouth, 63; named, 328.

Warfare, ancient, 53, 54.

Warrant, Cromwell’s, for a weekly allowance of £3 per week to the Marquis, 213, Appendix F.

Water-works at Raglan, 19, 20, 21.

Water-commanding Engine, named in a letter to the Earl of Lotherdale (January 1660), 223; the Marquis alludes to, expecting an Act for it, 223; his “truly significant definition,” 224; earliest distinct reference, 225; its progress, 253; application to Parliament, 253; the Act passed, 256; one-tenth granted to Charles II. 257; the same remitted to the Marquis on surrender of a warrant granting him lands to the value of £40,000, 257; (and note), 257; seen by SorbiÈre, 264; the public prove sceptical, 268; intelligence respecting it, 268; Act, and posting bills respecting, 291; set up at Vauxhall, 291; seen by Dr. Hook, 292; its practical character, 300; seen by Cosmo de Medici the Third, at Vauxhall, 302; mentioned in 1670, in a letter, 303; latest intelligence, 304; the Marquis’s principal invention, 305; means taken for publishing it, 305, 306; his three accounts of it, 306; generally unnoticed by contemporaries, 306; its superiority, 307; it was in advance of the age, 307; operations to give it publicity, 336; a model to be deposited, 336; and one to be buried, 337; summary of work at Vauxhall, 337; probable learned and wealthy visitors, 338, 339; Act for, Appendix C.

Watkins, Sir David, £20 loan, 214.

Wheel, the great, experiment at the Tower, 24, 25, 26.

Willis, Mr., his inventions, 264.

Williams, Sir Trevor, his siege operations, 149; seized 80 horses, 149.

William, Lord Herbert, at Oxford, 6; early decease, 6.

Winter, Sir John, Forest of Dean, 63; united with Lord Herbert. 63; deserts and spoils the Forest, 64.

Wood, Ant. À. his account of William Lord Herbert, and his brother Henry Somerset, at Oxford, 6; their ages, 6, 7; remarks on Henry, Lord Herbert, 11; on his religion, 11.

Woodcroft, Bennet, F.R.S. list of copies of Documents in his possession respecting the Marquis of Worcester, Appendix F.; Cromwell’s warrant, ibid.

Worcester, Edward, Somerset, 4th Earl of, rumour of his son’s intended marriage, 1; christening of Sir Robert Sydney’s daughter, 2; waiting on Queen Elizabeth, 2; his christening present, 2; his son Henry Lord Herbert’s marriage, 2, 3, 4, 5; invested with Order of the Garter, 7; Keeper of the Privy Seal, 7; his death, 8; his autograph, 12; his horsemanship and athletic acquirements, 13; named, 299.

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,” 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.

York, Charles I. at, 58, 59.

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