1640 45. J OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 101 



set a-going, much quantity of water, through the hollow 

 conveyances of the aqueducts, was to be let down from 

 the top of the high tower ; which, upon the first entrance 

 of these wonderful asinegoes, the Marquis had given 

 order that these cataracts should begin to fall, which 

 made such a fearful and hideous noise, by reason of the 

 hollowness of the tower, and neighbouring echoes of 

 the castle, and the waters that were between, and round 

 about, that there was such a roaring as if the mouth of 

 hell had been wide open, and all the devils conjured 

 up, occasioning the poor silly men to stand so amazed, 

 as if they had been half dead; and yet they saw 

 nothing. At last, as the plot was laid, up came a man 

 staring and running, crying out, Look to yourselves, my 

 masters, for the lions are got loose. Whereupon the 

 searchers tumbled so over one another escaping down 

 the stairs, that it was thought one half of them would 

 break their necks, never looking behind them until out 

 of sight of the castle.&quot; 23 



It was probably not long after the commencement of 

 the civil war that the occurrence we have next to notice 

 happened at the castle, affecting the then Lord Herbert, 

 which is related by the family chronicler in his 48th 

 Apophthegm thus: &quot;My Lord Herbert of Eaglan 

 (eldest son of the Marquis) came into Eaglan Castle, 

 attended with 40 or 50 officers and commanders ; and 

 his business with his father being about procuring from 

 the old man more money for the King, the Lord Herbert 

 in his request unto his father (unhappily and unawares) 

 chanced to use the word must; which his father (the 

 Marquis) laying hold on, asked him, Must you 9 I pray 

 take it ; and threw him the keys of his treasury, out of 

 his pocket; whereat his son was wonderfully out of 



Bayly, Ap. LI. 



