THE GREAT MARQUIS 



attraction of having family connections in the sister 

 island. It is this lady who appears seated by her 

 husband's side in the picture reproduced on page 

 26. Lord Herbert is there represented as a 

 Roman general, while his wife is in the dress of 

 the period. The child standing by her mother 

 is the only daughter of the marriage, who died 

 young. 



Lord Herbert, or Glamorgan, as from henceforth 

 he must be styled, soon showed he was not quite 

 the helpless tool the king imagined. Although not 

 strong enough to resist the personal charm of the 

 king when in his neighbourhood, he was yet acute 

 enough to discern the falseness and perhaps to see 

 the fatal weakness of Charles's character when he 

 was away from his presence. 



Yet he was soon to fall under the influence of 

 the papal nuncio Rinuccini, in Ireland, for there can 

 be no doubt that the clever Italian used Glamorgan 

 for his own ends. Into the history of Glamorgan's 

 mission I do not propose to enter, the subject being 

 one of the greatest difficulty, owing to the king's 

 secret orders so often being the opposite of his 

 public utterances that it is impossible to be sure 

 of the true state of affairs. 



There is every reason to believe that while Gla- 

 morgan learned to appreciate the king's character 

 at a truer value than formerly he was yet loyally 

 devoted to his cause. It must have been a bitter 

 moment when he found himself discredited by 



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