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422 NOTES �THE MABKIAGE OF EDWARD AND ELIZABETH HERBERT Elizabeth Herbert, great-great-granddaughter of the fourth Earl of Pembroke, married Edward Herbert of Swansea, county Glamorgan. The " Worsley " of the poem is the Frances Worsley who became Lady Cartaret in 1710. Hence the marriage of Edward and Elizabeth Herbert must have occurred before that date, or when Edward was nineteeen and Elizabeth sixteen. �ON THE DEATH OP THE HONOURABLE MR. JAMES THYNNE �L. 23: "And his renowned Ancestors repose." �(a) " Coventry." [Lord Keeper Coventry.] Lord Keeper Coven- try's second wife had four daughters, one of whom, Mary, married Sir Henry Frederick Thynno, the grandfather of the young James Thynne of the poem. �(6) " .... his Paternal Predecessor" Sir John Thynne, who bought Longleat in 1541, and was occupied in the years 1567-79 in building the mansion, said to have been the first well-built house in the kingdom. The whole of the outside and the interior from the hall to the chapel court were completed by him. �(c) " Essex" Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, had a daughter Frances, who was married (April, 1618) to Sir William Seymour, afterward Marquis of Hertford and Duke of Somerset. Their daughter, Mary Seymour, the second wife of Heneage Finch, the second Earl of Winchilsea, was the mother of Frances Finch, who married Viscount Thynne. �(d) "Somerset" The Sir William Seymour of the preceding note. He was one of the three lords who prayed the court to lay upon them, as the advisers of Charles I., the entire responsibility for his acts. Upon his execution they gained permission to bury his body at Windsor. At the Restoration the dukedom of Somerset and the barony of Seymour (declared forfeit in 1552) were revived and conferred upon Sir William Seymour by act of Parliament September 13, 1660. He died October 24 of the same year. �(e) " . . . . that matchless Female." [The Lady Packington supposed by many to be the author of The Whole Duty of Man.] Dorothy Coventry, daughter of Lord Keeper Coventry and wife of Sir John Packington, a lady of great learning and piety. The tra- dition connecting her name with The Whole Duty of Man was persistent. Her grandson caused to be engraved 011 her monument, "justly reputed the author of The Whole Duty of Man " but the ��� �