HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. XVH 
people, as all liis writings most conclusively show. How 
frequently do the most worthy individuals and greatest 
nations misunderstand each other’s manners and cus¬ 
toms ! 
The first Earl of Pembroke, already mentioned, was 
taken prisoner by the Lancasterian party, and beheaded 
by them in about a year after he obtained his earldom. 
His wife was Anne Devereaux, sister of Lord Ferrers of 
Chantley. She had a large family, but William Herbert’s 
successors became extinct in the male line after two more 
generations. From William’s brother, however, have 
descended the famous Herberts of Cherbury, and one of 
these became Earl Powis in 1746. This line also became 
extinct in a similar way, and passed with a daughter of 
Earl Powis into the family of the famous Lord Clive, 
where it yet remains. 
We do not know whether there is, or need be, any 
“bar sinister” upon the subject in the heraldic insignia 
of the Herberts, but it so happened that the aforesaid 
William Herbert, first Earl of Pembroke, left a son by a 
Welsh lady who bore his name of Herbert, in Montgom¬ 
eryshire. The son of that son married Anne Parr, sister 
of Catharine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry YHI. 
This renewed the influence of the Herberts at court; and, 
after “Old Harry” was dead, in the year 1551, during 
the reign of Edward VI., the grandson of the first earl 
received the title of Earl of Pembroke by a new creation, 
joined with that of Earl of Montgomery, inherited on the 
maternal side. This title is now held by Kobert Herbert, 
a descendant of the eighth generation, but reckons by 
fraternal mutations of the line as the twelfth Earl of Pem¬ 
broke and the ninth Earl of Montgomery. Sidney Her¬ 
bert, late Secretary of War in the British cabinet, is a 
brother to this personage. 
Among the younger sons of Thomas Herbert, the 
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