THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



House of Lords in right of his wife, and November 

 in the same year, when the barony was given to him 

 by letters patent.' 



Sir Charles, who became successively Baron 

 Herbert and the first Earl of Worcester, married 

 twice again — first Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, 

 Lord de la Warr, and then Eleanor, daughter 

 of Sir Edward Sutton, and sister of John Sutton, 

 Lord Dudley. It is only from scattered allusions 

 and from the story of his various employments that 

 we can understand anything of Worcester's char- 

 acter. But enough remains written on the pages of 

 history to enable us to picture what the first repre- 

 sentative of the new aristocracy was like. We find 

 the same traits with which we are familiar in the 

 upper-class Englishman of our own day — the aptitude 

 for war, the love of its reflection in sports and games, 

 the common-sense and sound if not far-reaching 

 political talents, and a high sense of duty and of 

 loyalty to king and Church. On the other hand 

 we find no great love of literature or readiness to 

 accept new ideas. Lord Worcester was a just and 

 not unpopular ruler of his estates, one of his acts 

 being to grant a charter to the burgesses of Chep- 

 stow. This he gave as a Lord of the Marches of 

 Wales, an office which the Union of England and 

 Wales was soon to render unnecessary, and of which 



^ No trace can be found of the patent, nor would such 

 creation have been necessary. Somerset was tenant by the 

 courtesy of his wife's barony for his hfe. 



14 



