6 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1600-1613. 



Russell, eldest son of Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford. 

 She bore him nine sons, of whom Edward was the 

 eldest son and heir, and four daughters, making in all 

 a family of thirteen children. 



Sir John Somerset, the second son, married Mary, 

 daughter of Thomas Arundel, Lord Arundel of War- 

 dour ; and, as will appear in the sequel, he resided at 

 Troy House, near Monmouth. 



The fifth son, Thomas Somerset, lived at Rome, 1676 ; 

 and his brother Charles was governor of Raglan 

 Castle in 1646, and afterwards died a Canon at Cam- 

 bray in Flanders. 



Four other sons died in infancy ; and another, later 

 in life, died unmarried. 



Kennet, the historian, records, in respect of one of 

 the daughters, that King James reprimanded the Earl, 

 her father, for his sending her to Brussels to be made a 

 nun, 58 in 1620. 



But it will be our chief business hereafter to treat 

 especially of the life and labours of the first-named son 

 of this nobleman ; only making such allusions to the 

 father, and relating such circumstances affecting him, 

 as serve to throw light on remote particulars of his 

 son s life. 



Of the age of Henry Lord Herbert, at the time of 

 his marriage, we are afforded indirect evidence through 

 Wood, who, speaking of him and his elder brother 

 William (who died unmarried during his father s life 

 time) being at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1591, 

 states the brothers to have been of the respective ages 

 of 15 and 14 ; so that Henry, being then only 14 years 

 of age, would have been born on or about the year 

 1577, and marrying in the year 1600, he would at 

 that time be in his 23rd year. 



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