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Some Notice of William Herbert, 



sack and pillage of the place, which was defended by the brave 

 Admiral Coligny. 



Montmorency was a prisoner in the hands of the Spaniards : on 

 the king's arrival at the camp after the battle, the Duke of Savoy 

 laid at his feet the banners and other trophies of the fight. It 

 is probable that the several fine suits of armour taken from the 

 Constable Montmorency, the Duke of Montpensier, and others, now 

 placed in the entrance-hall of Wilton House, as tokens of the battle 

 of St. Quentin, were then given. 



In truth the English gained but little honour in this war, and 

 the Pembrokes have more reason to be proud of the association 

 of the name of St. Quentin with their family through the Parr 

 descent, than from any glory acquired at the battle of St. Quentin. 

 Pembroke was on this occasion accompanied by his eldest son and 

 attended by one Richard Hurleston, who, as we learn from 

 Strype, was a man of strong Protestant tendencies, servant first 

 to Sir Thomas Seymour, afterwards Lord High Admiral — serving 

 him in the place of a gentleman — and subsequently in a similar 

 capacity the Earl of Pembroke at St. Quentin. "And from 

 thence was sent with the charge and government of the Lord 

 Herbert (son and heir of the said Earl) to Doway, where they 

 remained, till the lord his father came thither. And so they went 

 home, and then he (Hurleston) went into his own country, 

 where he remained till the death of Queen Mary/'' 1 Sir George 

 Penruddocke, ancestor of the Penruddockes of Compton, was also 

 present in this campaign, as standard-bearer to the Earl of Pembroke, 

 and afterwards attended his funeral in a similar capacity. 



The French had not long to wait for retaliation. Mary had 

 again fallen into a morbid state of ill-health, and the English 

 garrisons on French soil were still in a deplorably weak state. The 



1 This connection seems to have continued. In a letter from Chester, dated 

 December 20th, 1567, from Ric. Hurleston to the Earl of Pembroke, he " Gives 

 intelligence by good information, of great preparations making by the King of 

 Spain for the invasion of England. Certain gentlemen in Lancashire have taken 

 a solemn oath not to come to the communion, and they rejoice greatly at the 

 report of a Spanish invasion." (State Papers, Domestic Series, 1567.) 



