with which God hath blessed him. The seventh son was Thomas ", who being made captain of a ship in that fleet with which Sir Robert Mansell" was sent against Algiers, did there shew a fortunate and true English valour. Of the three sisters I need not say more, than that they were Lord Herbert of Cherbury, having related many glorious and gallant exploits of his brother Thomas, thus concludes his account of him: " After all these proofs given of himself, he ex"pected some great command, but finding himself, as he thought, "undervalued, he retired to a private and melancholy life, being much discontented to find others preferred to him, in " which sullen humour having lived many years he died, and “was buried in London, in St. Martin's, near Charing Cross,” (Life of Lord Herbert, p. 15.) At the instance of Count Gondomar, the Spanish Ambassador, Sir Robert Mansell, Vice-Adiniral of England, was sent in 1620, with a fleet for the Mediterranean, with a view to bumble the Algerine pirates, who infested the Spanish coasts. Captain Thomas Herbert had then the command of the Marmaduke, a merchant ship, of fifty men and twelve guns. (Lediart's Naval History, Vol. II. p. 45.)——Sir Robert in a letter to the Duke of Buckingham, dated from aboard the Lyon, in Alegant raai, informs his Grace of the event of this expedition against the Algerines, and names Captain Gales and Captain Herbert as very active in assisting him. See Cabala, p. 323. • ELIZABETH, my oldest sister, was married to Sir Henry "Jones, who by her had one son and two daughters: The latter " end of her time was the most sickly and miserable that hath " been known in our times, while for the space of about fourteen “ year she languished and pined away to skin and bones, and at "last died in London." (Life of Lord Herbert, p. 15.) C 3 all married to persons of worth, and plentiful fortunes; and lived to be examples of virtue, and to do good in their generations. I now come to give my intended account of George", who was the fifth of those seven brothers. "MARGARET was married to John Vaughan, son and heir to "Owen Vaughan, of Lluydart, by which match some former "differences betwixt our house and that were appeased and reconciled." (1b. p. 15.) 66 "FRANCES, my youngest sister, was married to Sir John "Brown, Knight, in Lincolnshire, who had by her divers chil"dren, the eldest of whom, though young, fought divers duels; " in one of which it was his fortune to kill one Lee, of a great "family in Lancashire." (Ib. p. 16.) To Elizabeth, his eldest sister, was written the following affec tionate letter by Mr. George Herbert: "FOR MY DEAR SICK SISter. "MOST DEAR sister, "Think not my silence forgetfulness, or that my love is as “dumb as my papers; though business may stop my hand, yet "my heart, a much better member, is always with you: and, "which is more, with our good and gracious God, incessantly "begging some ease of your pains, with that earnestness that "becomes your griefs and my love. God, who knows and sees "this writing, knows also that my soliciting him has been much, ❝ and my tears many for you; judge me then by those waters, " and not by my ink, and then you shall justly value "Your most truly, "Most heartily, "Decem. 6, 1620, Trin. Col. a Affectionate brother and servant, "My brother GEORGE was so excellent a scholar, that he "was made the public orator of the University of Cambridge, "some George Herbert spent much of his childhood in a sweet content under the eye and care of his prudent mother, and the tuition of a chaplain of tutor to him, and two of his brothers, in her own family (for she was then a widow), where he continued till about the age of twelve years; and being at that time well instructed in the rules of grammar, he was not long after commended to the care of Dr. Neale, who was then Dean of West "some of whose English works are extant; which, though they “be rare in their kind, yet are far short of expressing those per"fections he had in the Greek and Latin Tongue, and all divine "and human literature: His life was most holy and exemplary, “insomuch that about Salisbury where he lived beneficed for "many years, he was little less than sainted. He was not ex"empt from passion and choler, being infirmities to which all "our race is subject, but, that excepted, without reproach in his "actions." (Life of Lord Herbert, p. 12, 13.) • It has been said of Dr. RICHARD NEALE, that no one was more thoroughly acquainted with the distresses as well as the conveniences of the clergy, having served the Church as Schoolmaster, Curate, Vicar, Rector, Master of the Savoy, Dean of Westminster, Clerk of the Closet to James I. and Charles I. Bishop of Rochester, Lichfield, Durham, Winchester, and Archbishop of York. To the Church and churchmen he was verý serviceable by opposing the sectaries in their pursuits för ecclesiastical preferment, which they indefatigably hunted after, and thereby he drew on himself their general hatred. Prynne and Burton honoured him with the appellation of "a Popish "Arminian Prelate," and omitted no opportunity of showing their inveteracy against him. "He died," says Echard, "full "of years as he was full of honours; a faithful subject to his "prince, an indulgent father to his clergy, a bountiful patron to "his chaplains, and a true friend to all that relied upon him.” minster, and by him to the care of Mr. Ireland', who was then chief master of that school; where the beauties of his pretty behaviour and wit shined and became so eminent and lovely in this his innocent age, that he seemed to be marked out for piety, and to become the care of Heaven, and of a particular good angel to guard and guide him. And thus he continued in that school, till he came to be perfect in the learned languages, and especially in the Greek tongue, in which he after proved an excellent critic. About the age of fifteen (he being then a King's Scholar) he was elected out of that school for Trinity College in Cambridge, to which place he was transplanted about the year 1608; and his prudent mother, well knowing that he might easily lose or lessen that virtue and innocence, which her advice and example had planted in his mind, did therefore procure the generous and liberal Dr. Nevil', who was then Dean of Canter He was made Master of Westminster School in 1599, and Continued so to 1610. Hacket, afterward Bishop of Lichfield, was elected from Westminster School at the same time with Mr. George Herbert into Trinity College. When they left school, Mr. Ireland told them, "That he expected to have "credit by them two at the University, or would never hope for "it afterwards while he lived." (Dr. Plume's Account of the Life and Death of Bishop Hacket.) THOMAS NEVIL, D. D. eminent for the splendour of his birth, his extraordinary piety and learning, was educated at Petubroke Hall in the University of Cambridge. In 1582 he was bury, and Master of that College, to take him into his particular care, and provide him a tutor; which he did most gladly undertake; for he knew the excellencies of his mother, and how to value such a friendship. This was the method of his education, till he was settled in Cambridge, where we will leave him in his study, till I have paid my promised account of his excellent mother, and I will endeavour to make it short. was admitted Master of Magdalen College in the same University, and in 1593 he succeeded Dr. John Still in the Mastership of Trinity College, being then Dean of the Cathedral Church of Peterborough, over which he presided commendably eight years. "Of the College of the Holy and undivided Trinity, now not "only famous in that University, but in all Europe, which was decayed and near falling, and through age incoherent and "irregular, he was the moderator, the enlarger, and most happy "restorer; by his advice, favour, and liberal gift of money, the "ill-disposed buildings were taken down and rebuilt in a more "elegant form, the ways and ancient areas made regular and en larged by new and excellent embellishments and ornaments, " and brought to the remarkable beauty it now bears." (From a MS. extant in Trinity College, and called NEVIL.)-Upon the demise of Queen Elizabeth, Dr. Nevil, who had been promoted to the Deanery of Canterbury in 1597, was sent by Archbishop Whitgift to King James in Scotland, in the names of the Bishops and Clergy of England, to tender their bounden duties, and to understand his Highness's pleasure for the ordering and guiding of the Clergy. The Dean brought a most gracious answer of his Highness's purpose, which was to uphold and maintain the government of the late Queen, as she left it settled. Of Dr. Nevil see "Todd's Deans of Canterbury," p. 66, 83. |