30 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1639. 



CHAPTER III. 



EDWARD, LORD HERBERT^ SECOND MARRIAGE. 



IN 1639 Lord Herbert entered a second time into the 

 matrimonial state, a prudential step as he was then 

 situated, at the age of 38, having a young family with 

 out any sufficient guardian. He married the Lady 

 Margaret, second daughter and co-heir of Henry 

 O Brien, Earl of Thomond ; by which alliance he ob 

 tained some possessions, as well as a connexion with 

 many of the best and most powerful families in Ireland. 

 Of this, as of his first marriage, no particulars have been 

 preserved, not even their date, or where celebrated ; 

 yet considering that both occurred during his father s 

 lifetime and greatest prosperity, we can readily believe 

 that they were accompanied with all the usual demon 

 strations of joy, ceremony and feasting. They had 

 but one daughter, Mary, who died during her infancy. 

 In a family group, painted by Hanneman, a close imi 

 tator of Vandyck, Lord Herbert is represented as a 

 Roman general, seated by his lady attired in a modern 

 costume of pale blue satin, with their child standing 

 before her in a reclining position. He has a very aged 

 appearance, although one might presume that the por 

 trait was executed when he was under forty-five. It is 

 a very thinly and sketchily painted performance. His 

 Lordship presents a singular appearance in a toga and 

 tight fitting hose of deep scarlet, an ornamented leathern 

 jerkin, and wearing a wig streaming over his breast 

 and shoulders, sitting in a chair with his right hand 

 resting on a walking stick, while his left hangs negli 

 gently over the arm of the chair in proximity with a 



