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Some Notice of William Herbert, 



Portrait Exhibition, in 1866, incorrectly described in the catalogue 

 as being that of William, the third earl. Besides these, his kneeling 

 figure, clad in armour, and wearing the blue mantle and badge of 

 the order of the Garter, accompanied by his two sons, appears in 

 the stained glass window in Wilton Church, but as the faces are 

 restorations their authenticity is lost, 1 



His last will and testament bears date December 28th, 1569, 

 whereby he orders his body to be buried in the Cathedral o£ St. 

 Paul's, where Anne, his late wife, lieth interred, if so be he died in 

 or near London ; but if he died at Salisbury, his body to be buried 

 in the Cathedral there, with such funeral solemnity as to his estate 

 and calling appertaineth, and directs his executors to bestow yearly, 

 for the space of two years next after his death, £200 to the poor in 

 Baynard castleward in London, Salisbury in Wilts, and Hendon. 8 

 He bequeaths to his daughter, Anne Talbot, 500 marks in money 

 and jewels, having by assurances and conveyances already advanced 

 her to marriage with the Lord Talbot ; and constitutes Henry Lord 

 Herbert, his son, sole executor, charging him to have due consider- 

 ation to the rest of his children, friends, and servants. He bequeaths 

 to his son, Edward, plate to the value of 500 marks; and appoints 

 over his will, his very good lords and friends, Robert, Earl of 

 Leicester, Master of the Queen's Majesty's Horses, Sir Walter 

 Mildmay, Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, Knights, and Gilbert Gerrard, 

 Esq., the Attorney-General, and to every of them £50, to be de- 

 livered either in money, plate, or jewels, within one month. 



1 There seems at one time to have existed a large allegorical picture in which 

 a full-length portrait of Pembroke was painted, together with other figures. It 

 is mentioned by Aubrey in his account of the pictures at Wilton as having been 

 once there, " Here was the Table of Cebes, a very large picture, and done by a 

 great master, which the genius describes to William, the first earl of his family, 

 and lookes on him, pointing to Avarice as to be avoyded by a noble person." 

 (Natural History of Wilts, part ii., chap, ii.) It is noticed again by Gambarini, 

 of Lucca, in his description of the Pembroke pictures, 1731, "There is one 

 remarkable at London sixteen foot long, and nine foot broad, by H. Goltzius, the 

 Table of Cebes of Virtues and Vices, the six figures at bottom are as big as life, 

 one of them is with the Order of the Garter." 



2 The grant of Hendon, in Middlesex, to Lord Pembroke is dated April 9th, 

 4th Edward VI. It passed to his second son, Sir Edward Herbert, ancestor of the 

 Marquesses of Powis, extinct in 1747. The property was sold soon after this date. 



