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JAMES HEATH.

Ex Registro St. Bartholomew the lesse, London, A: Dom. 1664. "James Heath, Gent. dyed the 16th, and was buryed the 19th of August, in the church neêre the skreene dore. Consumption and Dropsie.'

The clarke told me that once he had a pretty good estate, but in his later time maintained himselfe much by writing bookes. He was hardly 40 yeares old when he dyed. He left 4 or 5 children on the parish, now all or most maried. Two were bound apprentices to weavers.

EDWARD LORD HERBERT, OF CHERBURY.

Lord Primate Usher of Ireland was sent for by him, when on his death-bed, and he would have received the sacrament. He sayd indifferently of it, that if there was good in any-thing 'twas in that, or if it did no good 'twould doe no hurt. The primate refused it, for wh many blamed him. He dyed at his house in Q. street, very serenely; asked what was o'clock, and then, sayd he, an hour hence I shall depart: he then turned his head to the other side and expired. In his will he gave speciall order to have his white stonehorse (wth he loved) to be well fed and carefully

looked after as long as he lived. He had two libraries, one at London, the other at Montgomery; one whereof he gave to Jesus coll. Oxon.

V. his mother's funeral sermon, preached at Chelsey by Dr. Donne, whereunto are annexed Latin and Greeke verses by her sonne, George Herbert.

V. more of this Lord in Lloyd's State-Worthies, Svo. 1679.

In a buriall place in the church at Montgomery (belonging to the castle), is a great freestone monument of Richard Herbert, Esq. (father to the learned Lord Herbert, of Cherbury, and Mr. George Herbert, who wrote the Sacred Poemes), where are the effigies of him and his wife, Magdalene, who afterwards was maried to S: John Danvers, of Wilts, and lies interred at Chelsey church, but without any monument. Dr. Donne, dean of St Paul's, preached her funerall sermon, to which are annexed severall verses, Latin and Greeke, by Mr. G. Herbert, in memorie of her. She was buried, as appeares by the sermon, July 1, 1627.

In Sepulchrum Richardi Herberti, Armigeri, et Magdalenæ uxoris ejus, Hendecasyllaba.

Quid virtus, pietas, amorve recti,
Tunc cum vita fugit, juvare possunt ?

In cœlo relevent perenne nomen,
Hoc saxum doceat, duos recludens
Quos uno thalamo fideque junctos
Heic unus tumulus, lapisve signat.

Jam longum sape, Lector, et valeto,
Æternum venerans ubique nomen.

S: Edw. H. afterward Lord Cherbury, &c. dyed at his house, in Queen street, in the parish of St. Giles in the fields, London, and lies interred in the chancell, under the Lord Stanhope's inscription,*

On a black marble grave-stone thus:

Heic inhumatur corpus
Edvardi Herbert, Equitis
Balnei, Baronis de Cherbury,
et Castle-Island. Auctoris Libri

cui titulus est De Veritate.
Reddor ut herbæ,

Vicessimo die Augusti,
Anno Domini 1648.

*St. Giles in the Fields, August, 1648.-August 5th, buried Edward Lord Herbert, Baron of Cherbury.

Mr. Fludd tells me he had constantly prayers twice a day in his house, and Sundays would have his chaplayne read one of Smyth's sermons.

I have seen him several times with S: John Danvers he was a black man.

Mem. The castle of Montgomery was a most romantique seate, it stood upon a promontory, the north side 30+ foote high. From hence is a most delightsome prospect, 4 severall wayes. Southwards, without the castle, is Primrose Hill. V. Donne's Poems, p. 53.

Upon this Prim-rose hill,*

Where, if Heaven would distill

A showre of raine, each severall drop might goe To his own primrose, and grow manna so ; And where their forme and their infirmitie Make a terrestriall galaxie,

As the small starres doe in the skie;

I walke to find a true-love, and I see
That 'tis not a meer woman that is shee,
But most, or more, or lesse than woman be, &c.

In this pleasant solitude did this noble Lord enjoy his Muse. Here he wrote his De Veritate. Dr. Coote (a Cambridge scholar and a learned) was one of his chaplains. Mr. Tho. Masters, of New Coll. Oxon, lived with him till 1642. This stately castle was demolished since the late warres at the chardge of the country.

* In the parke.

In Brecknockshire, about 3 miles from Brecknock, is a village called Penkelly (Anglicè, Ha selwood), where is a little castle. It is an ancient seate of the Herberts. Mr. Herbert, of this place, came by the mother's side of Wgan. The Lord Cherbury's ancestor came by the second venter, who was a miller's daughter. The greatest part of the estate was settled on the issue by the 2d venter: viz. Montgomery castle, and Aberystwith. Upon this match with the miller's daughter are to this day recited, or sung by the Welsh these verses:

Ô gway vinney (Dhyw) râg wilidh

Vôd vinhad yn velinidh

A' vôd vy mam yn velinidhes

A' môd inney yn arglwydhes.

To this sence:

O God! Woe is me miserable, my father
was a miller, and my mother a milleresse,
and I am now a ladie.

MR. GEORGE HERBERT

Was kinsman (remote) and chapelaine to Philip E. of Pembroke and Montgomery, and Lord Chamberlayn. His Lo? gave him a benefice

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