1662.] OF THE MAKQUIS OF WORCESTER. 249 



he conceived most likely to attract public notice. In 

 the Library of the British Museum* there is a small 

 quarto half sheet of paper, closely written on both 

 sides in a clerk s hand, bearing the title of &quot; Inventions 

 of y e Earle of Worcest r ,&quot; enumerating eight subjects, 

 viz. improvements in a watch, vessel, artificial bird, 

 hour ball, coach engine, raising weights, raising water, 

 and to stay motion. )&quot; 



A matter of slight consequence at the time makes us 

 acquainted with a small matter passing in reference to 

 the recovered estates. Sir Eobert Mason writing, on 

 the 10th of November, 1661, to Mr. Secretary Nicholas, 

 states that the person whom he has taken into custody 

 is Edward Herbert, late of the Grange, near Magor, 

 Monmouth, where he was Cromwell s tenant of part of 

 the Marquis of Worcester s estate ; but since the Mar 

 quis had power to recover it, he retired to Bristol. He 

 further says, that he was Cromwell s right hand, and is 

 an Independent.^: 



The Marquis of Worcester must have been very 

 fully occupied at this time, with the various incidents 

 portending a change in his domestic affairs, yet he 

 appears never to have forgotten, or considered it any 

 trouble, to assist and relieve the necessities of others. 

 In this humane spirit we find him addressing two long 

 letters to the Secretary of State, the first in respect to 

 Captain William Foster, a prisoner in the Tower ; the 

 other relating to the Captain s servant. They derive a 

 further interest from the allusion he makes to his own 

 former captivity in the same fortress : 



* Brit. Mus. Birch MSS. No. 4459. t See Appendix B. 



J Col. State Papers, 1661-1662 ; Domestic Series. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E. 

 Green, page 141. 8vo. 1861. 



Col. State Papers, Dom. Series, 1662. [Nos. 28 and 60. Vols. 63 and 64.] 



