First Earl of Pembroke of the Present Creation. "91 



(Edward Seymour, of Wulfhall), uncle of the boy king, as Protector. 

 This was hastily done at a meeting of the Council, when Herbert 

 was present. The funeral of the king took place at Windsor, it was 

 conducted with the utmost magnificence. Sir William Herbert and 

 Sir Anthony Denny were the only two that were carried in the 

 funeral chariot with the royal corpse. Some curious particulars are 

 given in a letter taken from the Venetian State Papers, by one 

 Ludovico Montio, who had been in the service of Henry VIII. It 

 is known that the body lay in state in the chapel of Whitehall, but 

 what made most impression on Montio was the wax-work figure of 

 the king wrought to the life, and most sumptuously apparelled in 

 robes, being covered with precious stones; the obsequies lasted 

 twenty days, there being one hearse at Westminster, another at Sion, 

 and a third, the grandest of all, at Windsor. 



Sir William Herbert was left £300 in the will. It appears that 

 the king, shortly before his death, was prepared to make considerable 

 grants of lands and titles to the members of the council. Secretary 

 Paget was directed to prepare a list of recipients for these gifts, but 

 modestly left out his own name. The new schedule was read over 

 to the king in the presence of Sir William Herbert and Sir Anthony 

 Denny. " Mr. Secretary has remembered all men save one,'' said 

 Herbert. " You mean himself," replied the king. " I remember 

 him, and he shall be helped." Upon the strength of the late 

 king's intention, the new Government made the Protector, Duke of 

 Somerset ; his brother received the title of Lord Seymour of Sudleye, 

 with suitable grants ; Lord Parr, the brother of Lady Herbert, was 

 made Marquis of Northampton, besides other preferments. 



The first grant of estates to Sir William Herbert by the Govern- 

 ment of Edward VI. is dated July 10th, 1547, six months after the 

 death of Henry VIII. "The consyderacion of the gifte" being 

 "fibr the fuUfillinge of a Determinacion made by Kinge H. the 

 viij"" by his last Will.'" This grant included the manors of North 

 Newton and Hulcott, which remained in possession of the Pembrokes 

 down to 1680, when they were sold by Philip, the seventh earl. 



' State Papers, Domestic, Edw. VI., vol. 19. 



