54 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1642. 



pistol, &c. Their weapons were chiefly swords and 

 pikes. Armour was employed to a considerable extent. 

 The curious in such military matters may consult with 

 advantage &quot; The exercise of arms for Calivers, Musketts, 

 and Pikes,&quot; in the masterly executed folio engravings by 

 Jacob de Gheyne, printed at the Hague in 1607. The 

 soldiers of the 17th century had to carry immense un 

 wieldy fire-arms, requiring a crutch or rest on which to 

 steady them while taking aim, and had to fire with the 

 ignited end of prepared rope, used as a match for that 

 purpose, and which for security against accidental ex 

 tinction was usually kept lighted at both ends. 



In respect to the Marquis s wealth, a contemporary 

 authority informs us in reference to that period, that, 

 &quot; His whole estate ubique was esteemed 24 thousand 

 pounds per annum.&quot; 93 Indeed he was almost an uni 

 versal landlord in the county. 29 He had then alto 

 gether raised 1500 foot and near 500 horse, the 

 command of which he gave to his son, Lord Herbert ; 

 thus raising the first horse levied by the King. 



The writer of a contemporary pamphlet published at 

 Oxford, entitled u A short view of the late troubles,&quot; 

 states : &quot; Moreover, within few days following, one John 

 Davis discovered [12th Nov.] to the House that the 

 Earl of Worcester had large stables under ground, at 

 Eaglan Castle, and a number of light horse in them ; 

 likewise arms for a hundred and forty horse, and two 

 thousand men, whereof seven hundred were then in 

 pay, and ammunition proportionate.&quot; 90 



We learn little more personally affecting the Marquis 

 of Worcester for about two years, during which his 

 time must have been both fully and painfully absorbed 

 in superintending the warlike preparations which envi 

 roned his domicile. 



93 Svmonds. w Corbet. 90 Soiners. 



