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like value ; to be disposed of as the Parliament shall see 



cause.&quot; 



After naming a Committee 



&quot; Ordered, That the business of the delinquency of 

 the Lord Herbert of Baglan, MS to the matter of fact, 

 be referred to this Committee ; to send to the Commis 

 sioners at Goldsmiths Hall, for what evidence they 

 have against him ; and to report the state of the busi 

 ness touching the delinquency charged on the said 

 Lord Herbert, to the Parliament.&quot; 



This was succeeded, on Wednesday, the 21st of May, 

 1651,* by an inquiry into the state of the case of the 

 Lord Herbert of Eaglan, reported as follows : 



&quot; Manors and lordships of Tidenham in the county 

 of Gloucester ; Chepstow Barton, and Hardwick Chep- 

 stow, Burgus, and Fry th wood, in the county of Mon- 

 mouth ; the seigniory of Gower in the county of Gla 

 morgan; by force of two several indentures, one of 

 them dated 3 Junii, 3 Caroli, the other dated 10 No- 

 vembris, 1631, for good and valuable considerations, 

 in the said indentures mentioned, were settled upon the 

 Earl of Worcester, for and during his life only; the 

 remainder thereof to the said Lord Herbert, and the 

 heirs male of his body ; with divers remainders over ; 

 which said lordships and manors are, by Act of this 

 present Parliament, settled upon the Lord General 

 Cromwell and his heirs ; and are of the yearly value of 

 one thousand seven hundred and seven pounds, fifteen 

 shillings and two pence. 



u And that the manors of Monmouth, Wisham, Pel- 

 leny, Purcasseck, Trellacks Grange, the demesnes of 

 Grosmond, Skewfreth, and Monmouth, Bettus, and Per 

 Lloyd, in the county of Monmouth, the manor of Crook- 



* Page 577. The same inquiry also supplied an interesting notice of Lord 

 Herbert s early life. 



