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tinent of the young heir, with the exception of one side of the 

 quadrangle, which still displays gable-ends with beautiful barge- 

 boards, on which, among other devices, are the feathers of 

 Edward, son of Henry VIII. as Prince of Wales, being seven in 

 number, three in front and four behind. Some doors of beautiful 

 open carvings of that reign are put up at Goodrich Court. This 

 gentleman, however, began to rebuild it in the reign of Charles I., 

 and the front, with its porch of entrance, at right angles to the 

 side described, are of that period, but the remainder of the 

 house is modern. 



The following account of the family is from a MS. written at 

 different times by Herbert Rudhall Westfaling, Esq. who died in 

 the year 1743, at the age of 73 : — 



''John Harbart, the first that lean find of my family, who, by 

 oral tradition, was a younger brother, or descended from a younger 

 branch of the family of the Herberts, Earls of Pembroke, the 

 particulars of which, through the remissness of my trustees, is 

 left much in the dark to me. This John Harbart as appears by 

 his picture in Rudhall House, was a Knight of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, supposed to be about the time of the dissolution of 

 the order in the reign of Henry VIII. upon which he travelled 

 beyond sea. My great aunt Elmhurst and others of my relations 

 have told me that he then changed his name to Westfaling. I 

 have no account whom he married, but he left issue one son 

 Herbert, whom he bred up a scholar, and placed him a student 

 in Christ-church College, Oxford. He being of the reformed 

 religion in the year of Queen Mary, when those who separated 

 from the errors of the church of Rome were persecuted, he fled 

 for his religion into foreign countries. And others of my re- 

 lations have told me that he then changed his name from the 

 surname of Herbert to Westfaling, and called himself Herbert 

 Westfaling. But of the truth of this I am wholly ignorant as 

 is above mentioned. Anno Dom., 1585, he was made Bishop of 

 Hereford (in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.) I shall not give 

 any account of his life, there being several short relations of his 

 life in print, which were done by those contemporary with him, 

 and who, by ocular testimony, knew the truth of what they 

 published to the world. He was certainly an extraordinary good 

 man. He, in some part, beautified the Bishop's Palace in 

 Hereford, and gave an estate to Jesus College, in Oxford, 

 sufficient for the maintenance of two fellows and two scholars in 

 the college. He left to his son a plentiful estate, viz., at Pomfret, 

 in Yorkshire, houses in London, the lordship of Mansel, with 

 leasehold and freehold lands in Hampshire, the great tithes of 

 Marcle, the leases of Warham and Mills at Bromyard, and other 

 estates in the counties of Hereford and Worcester — all, or most 

 in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, with this Bishop's money. 

 He had likewise an estate in the city and county of Oxford, 



