TO 



THE MOST NOBLE 



Henry Charles FifaRoy, 



DUKE OF BEAUFOET, 



MABQUIS AND EABL OF WOBCESTEB, 



EAEL OF GLAMORGAN, VISCOUNT GEOSMONT, 



BARON HERBERT OF CHEPSTOW, RAGLAND, AND GOWER, 



BARON BEAUFORT OF CALDECOT CASTLE, AND 



BARON DE BATTETCOURT, 



ETC. ETC. ETC. 



MY LORD DUKE, 



THROUGHOUT your Grace s most ancient and 

 regal line of ancestry it would be impossible to name 

 a more truly exalted character than EDWARD SOMER 

 SET, the sixth Earl and second Marquis of Worcester, 

 father of Henry, created first Duke of Beaufort by 

 Charles the Second. 



This pre-eminence, due to his high intellectual 



