the Earl of Worcester, Lord Herbert, and Sir John Somerset (his sons), should be paid to them in part of satisfaction." Early in the succeeding spring, Ragland Castle was besieged by a part of Fairfax's army, under the command of a person of the name of Morgan, and at length of Fairfax himself. "On the ninth of June, 1646," says Whitelocke again, "letters and papers were read of transactions between the Marquis of Worcester and the Commissioners of Monmouth, and Lieut. General Morgan and his Lordship, for the surrender of Ragland Castle, which Morgan, by command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, summoned, and the Marquis desired liberty to send to the King, to know his pleasure, which Morgan denied, alledging that the King was in the army of the Scots, our friends, who had proclaimed that none formerly in arms against the Parliament should be admitted to any conference with him. The Marquis resolved to stand it out to the utmost." And so he did, with a bravery and perseverance to which the whole of that unhappy war scarcely produced a parallel instance. Dispirited however by the hopelessness into which the royal cause had fallen; exhausted of provisions and ammunition; and deprived of the means of procuring supplies of either; he was at length compelled to listen to offers of treaty. Fairfax was a gentleman, and his terms were liberal, except with respect to the Marquis himself, as to whom it appears that he was not allowed to exercise his own discretion. On this head Whitelocke has left us also the following memorandum-" August the seventeenth, 1646, letters from the leaguer before Ragland certify that the M. of Worcester wrote with much respect to Sir Thomas Fairfax, that he honoured his family, and was more willing to agree to his proposals than if they had come from any other; that he was intimately acquainted with Sir Thomas Fairfax, his grandfather; and other compliments; and concluded to agree to a treaty in which all propositions were consented to but concerning the person of the Marquis, whom they would only admit to the mercy of the Parliament, and that the Marquis thought hard; and, being eighty-four years of age, was thought

HENRY SOMERSET, FIRST MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.

the more capable of favour and pity." He experienced indeed little of either, for he was sent a prisoner to London, where he was committed to the custody of the Usher of the Black Rod, and afterwards to a more severe confinement, from which, within three months he was released by death, for we find that on the nineteenth of December following his surrender the Parliament voted a thousand pounds for the expenses of his funeral. His great estates were dispersed by grants to various persons, and by sale. A considerable share of them was given to that sour and crafty old republican the Lord Say; and on the seventh of March, 1647-8, to quote the words of Whitelocke once more, "an ordinance was sent up to the Lords, for settling lands of the Marquis of Worcester, of two thousand five hundred pounds yearly value, on Lieutenant General Cromwell, and his heirs, in recompence of his great services." The whole of the sacrifices made by this nobleman and his sons to their loyalty, in gifts heartily bestowed, in loans never repaid, and in the entire loss at last of his splendid patrimony, extended nearly to the enormous sum of a million sterling.

Henry, Earl of Worcester, married Anne, only surviving child of John Lord Russell, who died in the lifetime of his father, Francis, second Earl of Bedford of that family. He had by that lady nine sons, and four daughters, of whom the eldest, Edward, Lord Herbert, succeeded to his dignities; Sir John, the second, married, and left issue; William, and Henry, died unmarried, as did also probably Thomas, the fifth son, who was living in Rome towards the end of the seventeenth century; Charles, a canon of the Church of Cambray in Flanders; Frederic, Francis, and James; died minors. Of the daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, who was a nun, and Mary, were unmarried, and another Elizabeth, the youngest, was the wife of Francis Browne, third Viscount Montagu.