1628.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 17 



Somerset (afterwards created first Duke of Beau 

 fort) ; and had besides two daughters, Anne, who 

 married Henry Frederick, third Earl of Arundel of the 

 Howards; and Elizabeth, who married William 

 Herbert, first Marquis of Powis. 



No contemporary or other hand has recorded any 

 details of Lord Herbert s marriage, or even any 

 particulars of his early life ; in the absence of decisive 

 information, we can only surmise from stray facts 

 the possibility of his having withdrawn from the Court, 

 taken up his abode at Eaglan Castle, and there occu 

 pied himself in those scientific studies and pursuits 

 which were his special delight at that early period, and 

 which were indeed the solace even of his declining 

 years. 



Judging from a statement that occurs in his writings,* 

 it is most likely that in 1628, soon after his marriage, 

 he engaged the services of u the unparalleled workman 

 both for trust and skill, CASPAR KALTOFF,&quot; of whom 

 we shall have occasion to speak more at length here 

 after, and who, he says, was &quot; as in a school under me 

 employed;&quot;! by which we understand that Kaltoff had 

 the practical management of those mechanical and other 

 inventions which, then commenced, became the prin 

 cipal study and employment of his Lordship s leisure 

 during the remainder of his life. He must have set up 

 a complete laboratory or workshop in which to operate 

 on the many varied ingenious contrivances and experi 

 ments, of only part of which he has left us a most 

 interesting catalogue raisonne. 



The early genius of Lord Herbert would appear to 

 have exhibited itself in an attachment to mathema 

 tical studies, and a singular predilection, in a young 

 nobleman, for mechanical pursuits. He has himself 



Dedication to the &quot; Century.&quot; 



