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wise might have arisen from energies sacrificed, alas ! 

 to the sword, and fortunes turned into other and waste 

 ful channels. In this nineteenth century we can calmly 

 look with some wonder and astonishment on the in 

 difference of the seventeenth, in failing to realize at 

 least some of the Marquis of Worcester s remarkable 

 Inventions, of which we shall shortly have to treat more 

 at large. 



On the 18th of September, 1646, the House of Com 

 mons &quot; Ordered, That the Lady Herbert, wife of the 

 Lord Herbert of Kaglan, shall have Mr. Speaker s pass 

 to go into France, only according to the pass given her 

 by Sir Thomas Fairfax.&quot; From this it is probable that 

 Henry, Lord Herbert, the Marquis of Worcester s only 

 son, was already in France. 



Mr. Carte, 24 in his life of the Duke of Ormond, inci 

 dentally alludes to the Marquis of Worcester, as being 

 at Paris a few months before March, 1648 ; he says : 



&quot; In 1648, the Duke of Ormond considered the Par 

 liament was grown jealous of him, and wanted a pretext 

 to seize his person. He had notice likewise given him, 

 that a warrant was actually issued out for that purpose, 

 though in breach of the articles.* Upon this advertise 

 ment, he quitted Acton ten miles from Bristol, where 

 he was then residing, and crossing the country to 

 Hastings in Sussex, he took shipping for France, and 

 landed happily at Dieppe in Normandy. From thence 

 he went in the beginning of March [1648] to Paris, 

 there to wait upon the Queen and Prince, and assist 

 with his advice in the present conjuncture of affairs, 

 when matters of the greatest consequence, the most in- 



24 Carte, vol. 2. p. 16. 



* He had liberty by his articles to stay twelve months in England but the 

 Parliament was jealous of his doing them a disservice. 



