THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



four months later, before the close of the year 

 1646. 



The Parliament, which had already ordered the 

 destruction of Raglan and the confiscation of the 

 Marquis's estates, debated the question of allowing 

 ;^500 out of the spoils for the funeral of their late 

 owner. This was agreed to, and it was apparently 

 also decided during Lord Worcester's lifetime that 

 he was to be buried in the Beaufort Chapel at 

 Windsor, as he is reported to have said that he 

 should be indebted to the Parliament when he was 

 dead, for a better castle than they had taken from 

 him during his lifetime. 



So the fifth Earl and first Marquis of Worcester 

 passed away, leaving his son to struggle throughout 

 the remainder of his life with the troubles that had 

 descended on the hitherto prosperous family. The 

 rich Somerset estates were given by Parliament to 

 Cromwell, as a reward for his services. There 

 were not wanting lawyers, indeed, who were ready 

 to ease the Lord General's conscience by assuring 

 him that there was a flaw in the Somerset title 

 deeds, though possibly without this he would not 

 have seen his way to refuse the princely gift offered. 

 Glamorgan — or the Earl of Worcester, as he seems 

 to have been called after his father's death, the 

 parliamentary Government refused him any higher 

 title — presented a petition for the return of the 

 family lands. The commission before whom the 

 case was brought decided that these had been 



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