340 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET [Book VI, 



have shared the success of his brother in the tourna- 

 ments and other sports of the period. We find 



The Herberts, every cockpit-day, 



Do carry away 



The gold and glory of the day. 



With this nobleman's poHtical career we have 

 nothing to do beyond remarking that Butler celebrates 

 the earl's apostasy in some humorous lines in which 

 reference is made to his sporting predilections : — 



His hawks and hounds were all his care, 

 For them he made his daily pray'r, 

 And scarce would lose a hunting season. 

 Even for the sake of darling treason. 



122 Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, brother of William, 

 the 3rd earl, was elevated to the peerage, as above related, as 

 Baron Herbert, of Shurland, in the Isle of Sheppey, county 

 Kent, and Earl OF Montgomery. His lordship was installed 

 a Knight of the Garter in 1608, at which time he was one of 

 the Gentlemen of the Chamber to the king. He was Lord- 

 Chamberlain of the Household to Charles I., and Chancellor 

 of the University of Oxford before he joined the patriotic 

 party. He married, first, Susan, daughter and eventually 

 co-heiress of Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford, by whom he 

 had issue Charles, Philip (successor to his father), William, 

 James, John, and Anne Sophia. He married, secondly, 

 Anne, only daughter and heiress of George, Earl of Cumber- 

 land, Duchess-Dowager of Dorset, but had no other issue. 

 He died in 1655. 



Api'opos of the pugnacious disposition so frequently 

 displayed by a certain class of rowdies frequenting the 

 race-courses in those days, Richard Brathwait, Esq., 

 in "The English Gentleman" (London, 1630), cautions 

 his readers to avoid such querulous persons. "For 

 these Jii'ie Spirits',' he says, " who have Thersites 



