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the next month ; the public neglect, from his aristocratic 

 sympathies, he might not choose to recognise. It is 

 certain he had been abundantly persecuted for his poli 

 tical acts, and was being neglected with a degree of 

 callousness for which it is difficult at this remote period, 

 and in the absence of needful intelligence, to account, 

 so as fairly to reconcile the many incongruities and 

 inconsistencies in the statement of his devotion to 

 Charles the First, the coolness of Charles the Second, 

 the Marquis s own firm clinging to a Court which used 

 him so basely, and the utter oblivion into which his 

 efforts fell among all classes of men esteemed patrons 

 of art, literature and science. 



Amidst plague, and intestine troubles, and surrounded 

 with domestic calamities of the most poignant character, 

 this great and good man, this glorious genius deceased 

 on Wednesday, the 3rd of April, 1667. Where he 

 died is nowhere recorded, and no incident of his latter 

 days affords the slightest information. It is not unrea 

 sonable to suppose that he had resided at Lambeth, if not 

 indeed at the mansion then called Faux-hall. He was 

 conveyed with funeral solemnity from London to his 

 barony of Eaglan, in the county of Monmouth, where he 

 was buried in the family vault within the Parish Church, 

 on Friday the 17th of the same month, near to the body 

 of Edward, Earl of Worcester, Lord Privy Seal, his 

 grandfather, the following inscription being engraved on 

 a brass plate : 



&quot; Depositum Ulustrissimi Principis Edwardi Marchionis 

 & Comitis Wigornice, Comitis de Glamorgan, Baronis 

 Herbert de Raglan, Chepstow, & Gower, nee non Serenis- 

 simo nuper Domino Eegi Carolo primo, Southwallice 

 Locum-tenentis : Qui obiit apud Lond. tertio die Aprilis, 

 An. Dom. M.DC.LXVII.&quot; 



