1661.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 213 



debt, his possessions were almost valueless. Besides, the 

 Marquis was remarkably modest and fastidiously con 

 siderate in all he urged 5 yet he sought royal patronage 

 in vain, for the gay monarch was not to be won from 

 his levity by the philosopher s most plausible petitions. 



On the 14th of December, 1661, Lord Herbert and 

 other members brought a message to the Lords, with 

 several Bills, one being u An Act for confirming the 

 Marquis of Hertford to the Dukedom of Somerset,&quot; 

 which had passed the House of Commons ; and on the 

 1 7th, having then been read a third time, it also passed 

 the House of Lords. 



As Courthope 70 observes, although the Marquis of 

 Worcester thus resigned his claim on the Dukedom of 

 Somerset he still retained the titles of Earl of Glamor 

 gan and Baron Beaufort, as will be seen hereafter in the 

 copy given of his funeral certificate. 



The Marquis seems to have attended the House of 

 Lords for the first time after the Eestoration, on the 

 13th of June, 1660, continuing very regularly for some 

 months. The only others of his rank were the Marquises 

 of Winton, Hertford, Dorchester, and Newcastle, and 

 later, the Marquis of Winchester, seldom more than one 

 or two of these being present on the same occasion. 

 Between this date and the 30th of August, he sat in the 

 House on thirty-seven days. Then after an absence of 

 more than two months he is again present on the 6th of 

 November, from which to the 24th of December he at 

 tended twenty -five meetings, the King being in the chair 

 on the last occasion. He was not again in his place until 

 the 29th, when his Majesty in person adjourned the 

 House ; which, meeting again on the 8th of May, &quot; his 

 Majesty, being arrayed in his regal robes with his crown 



70 Nicholas. 



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