where he showed such forwardness, as no man in that great army before him was more adventurous on all occasions. Being returned from thence, he went to the East Indies, under the command of Captain Joseph, who, in his way thither, meeting with a great Spanish ship, was unfortunately killed in fight with them; whereupon, his men being disheartened, my brother Thomas encouraged them to revenge the loss, and renewed the fight in that manner (as Sir John Smyth, governor of the East India Company, told me at several times), that they forced the Spanish ship to run aground, where the English shot her through and through so often, that she run herself aground, and was left wholly unserviceable. After which time, he, with the rest of the fleet, came to Surat, and from

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1 In December 1616, Captain Benjamin Joseph sailed in the Globe as commander of the East India Company's fleet. Early in the following March the fleet was attacked by a Portuguese carrack, and Captain Joseph, “a man of extraordinary note and respect," was killed. (See Sainsbury's Calendar of Colonial Papers.)

2 Sir Thomas Smyth, the first Governor of the Company, was appointed in 1600, and was re-elected to the post for every year between 1607 and 1621. He died towards the end of 1625. Mr. W. N. Sainsbury of the Record Office informs me that Sir John, Sir Thomas Smyth's son, admitted to the freedom of the Company by patrimony, 30th June 1619, was never Governor. (See Calendar of Colonial Papers.)

thence, went with the merchants to the Great Mogul; where, after he had stayed about a twelvemonth, he returned with the same fleet back again to England.1 After this, he went in the navy which King James sent to Algiers, under the command of Sir Robert Mansel, where our men being in great want of money and victuals, and many ships scattering themselves to try whether they could obtain a prize, whereby to relieve the whole fleet;' it was his hap to meet with a ship, which he took, and in it, to the value of eighteen hundred pounds, which, it was thought, saved the whole fleet from perishing. He conducted, also, Count Mansfeld to

1 Sir Thomas Roe, the first accredited envoy to the Great Mogul, notes, in a despatch dated Mandow, 3d November 1617, that “Mr. Herbert, weary of the progress (i.e., with the English merchants to the Great Mogul's court) is bound for England." He apparently returned to Surat at the end of 1617, and sailed in the Globe, the ship in which he came, very early in the following year. (See Cal. of Colonial Papers, 1617-18.) Care must be taken to distinguish this Thomas Herbert from his kinsman of the same name, who was at Surat ten years later, and then paid a visit to the Great Mogul, a full account of which is given in his published Travels (1634).

2 Sir Robert Mansell arrived with twenty ships in the roads of Algiers, 27th November 1620, to punish the Dey for his piratical attacks on English ships in the Mediterranean. Failure of supplies from home brought the expedition to grief, and after much suffering the fleet was recalled in July 1621. Gardiner's History of England, iv. 223–225.

the Low Countries, in one of the king's ships, which, being unfortunately cast away not far from the shore, the count, together with his company, saved themselves in a long-boat, or shallop, the benefit whereof my said brother refused to take for the present, as resolving to assist the master of the ship, who endeavoured by all means to clear the ship from the danger; but finding it impossible, he was the last man that saved himself in the longboat; the master thereof yet refusing to come away, so that he perished together with the ship. After this, he commanded one of the ships that were sent to bring the prince from Spain; where, upon his return, there being a fight between the Low Countrymen and the Dunkirkers, the prince, who thought it was not for his dignity to suffer them to fight in his presence, commanded some of his ships to part them whereupon my said brother, with some other ships, got betwixt them on either side, and shot so long, that both parties were glad to desist. After he had brought the prince safely home, he was appointed to go with one of the king's ships to the Narrow Seas.2 He also fought divers times with

1 On his return to Flushing with an English army in January 1624-5. Gardiner's History, v. 285.

2 1625, September 25, Buckingham, as Admiral of the Narrow Seas, appointed Captain Thomas Herbert captain of the Dreadnought. Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1625-6, P. III.

great courage and success, with divers men in single fight, sometimes hurting and disarming his adversary, and sometimes driving him away. After all these proofs given of himself, he expected 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;1 so that of all my brothers none survives but Henry.

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Elizabeth, my eldest sister, was married to Sir Henry Jones of Abermarles [Carmarthenshire], who had by her 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 years, she languished and pined away to skin and bones, and at last died in London, and lieth buried in a church

1 Lord Herbert's younger brother apparently died midway between 1626 and 1642. I have had the burial registers of the Church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields searched in vain for an entry respecting his death. The registers do not seem to have been kept with very scrupulous care at this period.

2 Baptized in Montgomery Church, 10th November 1583.

3 Sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1574 and 1584, and for Brecknockshire, 1580. Two letters of Sir Henry appear in the Stradling Correspondence, ed. Traherne, pp. 163, 164.

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called near Cheapside. Margaret was married to John Vaughan, son and heir to Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth; by which match some former differences betwixt our house and that were appeased and reconciled. He had by her three daughters and heirs, Dorothy, Magdalen, and Katherine; of which the two latter only survive. The estate of the Vaughans yet went to the heirsmale, although not so clearly but that the entail which carried the said lands was questioned.* Frances, my youngest sister, was married to Sir John Brown, Knight, in Lincolnshire, who had by her divers children; the eldest son of whom, although young, fought divers duels, in one of which it was his fortune to kill one Lee, of a great family

1 Entered in the Montgomery parish register, 3d November 1606.

2 On 7th January 1588-9, Shrewsbury was much disturbed by a conflict between the retainers of the Herbert and the Newport families, and those of the Vaughans. A tedious lawsuit between Sir Edward Herbert of Powis, third cousin of Lord Herbert's father, and the Vaughans seems to have involved all the Herbert family. Cf. Owen and Blakeway's Shrewsbury, i. 390, 391.

3 Dorothy's will was proved at Canterbury by her uncle, George Herbert the poet, on 9th October 1632.

She died 14th

4 John Vaughan died before his wife. August 1623, and is buried in Montgomery Church, inter majores et consanguineos. She is described in the parish register as habitans Llussin in parochia Llan-ervell in Diocasi Asaphensi.