Earl of Bedford. He d. at his lodgings in the Cockpit, Westm., 23 Jan. 1649/50, and was bur. with some state 9 Feb. in Salisbury Cathedral(a)[1] aged about 64.(b)[2] Will pr. 1650. His widow (for whom see fuller account sub "Clifford " Barony) by whom he had no issue, d. at Brougham Castle, co. Westmorland, 22 March 1675/6, in her 87th year. Will dat, 1 May 1674, pr. 8 April 1676.
[James Herbert, styled Lord Herbert of Shurland, 1st s. and h. ap. by first wife, d. an infant and v.p., being bur. 29 Aug. 1617, at Enfield co. Midx.]
[Henry Herbert, styled Lord Herbert of Shurland, 2d but 1st. surv. s. and h ap. by first wife, d. an infant and v.p., being bur. 5 April 1618, at Enfield afsd.]
[Charles Herbert, styled Lord Herbert of Shurland, 3d but 1st surv, s. and h. ap. by first wife, bap. 19 Sep. 1619, at Enfield afsd.; mat. at Oxford (Ex. Coll.), 20 April 1632; K.B. (as Lord Herbert of Shurland), 2 Feb. 1625/6, at the coronation of Charles I.(c)[3] He m., at Christmas 1634, at the age of 15, Mary, da. of George (Villiers), 1st Duke of Buckingham, the Royal favourite, but d. v.p. and
- ↑ (a) See "Her. and Gen.," vol. iv, p. 181, as to whether his burial was at Salisbury, where, however, it probably was, tho' no inscription remains. It is certain he was not bur, with his wife at Westm. Abbey nor with his children at Enfield and also that he was bur. at some distance from London, as the Members of Parl. were ordered by the Council of State to accompany the hearse two or three miles out of London.
- ↑ (b) He was one (his elder br. being the other) of the "incomparable pair of brethren" to whom the first folio of Shakespeare was in 1623 inscribed, being, tho' himself very illiterate, a patron of literature. Of sporting, architecture, and pictures, he also had good knowledge, and he is said by Aubrey to have owned more of Vandyke's pictures than any one else. His debaucheries certainly equalled and perhaps exceeded those of his brother, and were accompanied by oaths and blasphemy and not with solemn propriety. Hartley Coleridge [Biogr. Borealis] says he has come down to posterity in the character of an ingrate, an ignoramus, a common swearer, a bully, and a coward," (see p. 220, notes and "c") having
[says Osborne] "the gift of a coward to allay the gust he had in quarrelling." He was not, however, content (says J. H. Jesse, in his "Memoirs of the Court of the Stuarts") with merely being "a profligate, a gambler, a fool, and a coward, with cudgelling and being cudgelled, but must also turn rebel, and an ungrateful apostate to the Prince who had raised him." Samuel Butler thus writes of him—
"Pembroke's a covenanting Lord
That ne'er with God or man kept word:
One day ho'd swear he'd serve the King,
The next t'was quite another thing;
Still changing with the wind and tide
That he might keep the stronger side."He is aptly said to have been "precisely the tool that knaves work with." Two of his portraits (one with his wife and children) by Vandyke, are at Wilton.
- ↑ (c) In Dugdale's list of summons there appears between the Lords Stourton and Darcy in the Parls., 30 Jan. 1620/1, to 12 Feb. 1623/1, the name "Carolo Herbert (de Shurland), Cu'lr. (primogenito Philippi, Comitis de Montgomerie.)" The person thus indicated appears to be Henry, Lord Herbert, s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Worcester, who occupies the same place in the Parl. of 5 Nov. 1605, down to that of 5 April 1614. but who disappears in Dugdale's list of the three Paris. (30 Jan. 1620/1, to 12 Feb. 1623/4), abovenamed. This Henry, however, did not succeed his father as Earl of Worcester till 1628 and doubtless continued to be summoned as Lord Herbert (from 1620/1 to 1623/4 as above) till his succession to that Earldom. Dugdale's explanation therefore (which he places within brackets) nccentuates the mistake of "Carolus being put for "Henricus," and renders it more difficult of detection.
