10 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS | 1GU1-IGU9. 



CHAPTEK II. 



BIETH, HOME, EDUCATION, EARLY CAREER, TIMES, AND FIRST 

 MARRIAGE OF EDWARD SOMERSET, LORD HERBERT. 



As already related, Henry,* fifth Earl of Worcester, 

 married in June, 1600, while yet attached to the Court 

 of Queen Elizabeth, and, therefore, most likely he was 

 resident at Worcester House, in the Strand, a building 

 of some importance from its magnitude and position, as 

 well as from the princely character of the noble pos 

 sessor of the property. 



There, it is reasonable to conclude, was born Edward 

 Somerset early in 1601, the son and heir whose event 

 ful history will hereafter mainly occupy our attention, 

 first as Lord Herbert, afterwards as the Earl of Gla 

 morgan, and lastly, on succeeding to his father s titles, 

 as Earl and Marquis of Worcester. 



The birth of this Lord Herbert has never before 

 been attempted to be ascertained, wherefore the pre 

 sent assumed date requires confirmation. On the 14th 

 of July, 1609, when he would thus probably be 

 only eight years of age, we find him associated with 

 his grandfather and father in a lease of lands in the 

 manor of Wondy, Monmouth, and of the fishing, or 

 river of Usk and Carlion, for their lives.&quot;)&quot; 



His preceptor at Eaglan Castle was Mr. Adams ; but 

 he does not appear, like his father, to have been at any 

 college in England; as, however, he travelled much 



* The annexed specimen of his 

 Lordship s autograph, during his 

 father s lifetime, is from a MS. cer 

 tificate in the British Museum 

 dated 21st May, 1604. 



t Calendar of State Papers, Do 

 mestic, 1603-1610. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E. Green. 8vo. 1857, page 529. 



