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LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS 



[1667. 



in London. He was therefore a person likely to be in 

 timately acquainted with the Dowager Marchioness of 

 Worcester s Irish connexions, and to take a more than 

 usual interest in the circumstances relating to the death 

 and funeral obsequies of the Marquis.* 



On the 24th of the same month the following 

 funeral certificate was attested by his son Henry, Mar 

 quis of Worcester, at the Herald s College : 



44 The Right Hon ble Edward Somerset Marquess and 

 Earle of Worcester, Earle of Glamorgan, and Baron 

 Herbert of Raglan, Chepstow, and Gower departed 

 this mortall life upon Wedensday the third of Aprill 

 1667, and was conveyed with ffunerall Solemnitie from 

 London to his Barony of Raglan in the County of 

 Monmouth (accompanied with many Gentry of y e 



* I am the more particular in naming these facts, as it is singular that there 

 should be any doubt thrown on the place of his sepulture. Yet in a copy of &quot; The 

 Baronage of England, by William Dugdale,&quot; containing his own manuscript cor 

 rections, he substitutes for &quot; Ragland,&quot; to read &quot; Windsor, near to the tomb of 

 Charles of Worcester his ancestor.&quot; This copy is in the Bodleian Library, and I 

 have not only examined it very carefully, but also the Register at St. George s Cha 

 pel, and the tombs in the Beaufort Chapel, Windsor, without being able to confirm 

 Dugdale s manuscript emendation. D. 



