Vide more of this lord in Lloyd's State-Worthies, 8vo. 1679.
_Amici_:--John Donne, D.D.; Sir John Danvers, etc.
[1157](August, 1648)--St. Giles-in-the-fields: 'August 5th, buried Edward, lord Herbert, baron of Cherbery.'
Mr. <Thomas> Fludd tells me he had constantly prayers twice a day in his howse, and Sundayes would have his chaplayne read one of Smyth's sermons. Vide Mr. Davys, attorney.
[1158]Sir Edward Herbert, afterward lord Cherbery, etc., 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.
Heic inhumatur corpus Edvardi Herbert, Equitis Balnei, Baronis de Cherbury et Castle-Island. Auctoris Libri cui titulus est _De Veritate_. Reddor ut herbae, Vicessimo die Augusti, Anno Domini 1648.
I have seem him severall times with Sir John Danvers: he was a black man.
Memorandum:--the castle of Montgomery was a most romancy seate. It stood upon a high promontory, the north side 30+ feete high. From hence is a most delightsome prospect, 4 severall wayes. Southwards, without the castle, is _Prim-rose hill_: vide Donne's Poems, p. 53.
[1159]Upon this Prim-rose hill[LXXXI.], Where, if Heaven would distill A showre of raine, each severall drop might goe To his owne prim-rose, and grow manna so; And where their forme and their infinitie 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, etc.
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. Thomas Masters, of New College, Oxon, lived with him till 1642.
This stately castle was demolished since the late warres at the chardge of the countrey.
[EX] In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 95, Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'Party per pale, azure and gules, 3 lions rampant argent' [Herbert of Chirbury]: surmounted by a baron's coronet.
[EY] It was his London library that he gave to Jesus College: so Aubrey, 2 Sept. 1671, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 138.
[1160]Mr. George Herbert was kinsman (remote) and chapelaine to Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, and Lord Chamberlayn. His lordship gave him a benefice[1161] at Bemmarton[LXXXII.] (between Wilton and Salisbury), a pittifull little chappell of ease to Foughelston. The old house was very ruinous. Here he built a very handsome howse for the minister, of brick, and made a good garden and walkes. He lyes in the chancell, under no large, nor yet very good, marble grave-stone, without any inscription.