"Your pay shall be constantly delivered to your commanders; and if default be made by any officer, give me timely notice, and you shall find speedy redress.

"This being performed on my part, I shall now declare what is your duty toward me, which I must likewise expect to be carefully performed by you.

"I shall desire all and every officer to endeavour, by love and affable carriage, to command his soldiers; since what is done for fear, is done unwillingly; and what is unwillingly attempted, can never prosper," &c. 2]

2 Parl. Hist. vol. xi. p. 437. A quarto volume was advertised in 1770, entitled "Letters written by his excellency, Arthur Capel, earl of Essex, lord-lieutenant of Ireland in 1675. With an historical account of his life prefixed." It was announced as one of Dodsley's publications, but I have not seen the book.

EDWARD,

LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY,

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ONE of the greatest ornaments of the learned peerage, was a man of martial spirit and a profound understanding. He was made knight of the bath when prince Henry was installed for the garter; and being sent embassador to France, to interpose in behalf of the Protestants of that kingdom, he returned the insolence of the great constable Luines with the spirit of a gentleman, without committing his dignity of embassador. It occasioned a coolness between the courts; but

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2 [Dr. Donne has a copy of verses addressed to sir Edward Herbert, since lord Herbert of Cherbury, being at the siege of Juliers: and Ben Jonson has a plausive epigram on the same "all-virtuous Herbert." See Brit. Poets, vol. iv. pp. 97, 542. An interesting account of this lord's ancestors is given in honest Isaac Walton's Lives.]

3

[He became a gentleman commoner of University college, Oxon, in 1595, at the age of fourteen; where he laid the foundation, says Wood, of that admirable learning of which he was afterwards a complete master. Athenæ, vol. ii. p.117.]

4 [July 2, 1603.]

3 5 [An account of the interview between Luines and lord Herbert is detailed in Observations on the Life of Lord Herbert, in Lloyd's State Worthies, p. 790, edit. 1665. Camden reports, that he treated the constable irreverently; but Walton tells us, that he could not subject himself to a compliance with

the blame fell wholly on the constable. In 1625 Sir Edward was made a baron of Ireland; in 1681, of England'; but in the cause of his country sided with its representatives.8 He died in 1648, having written

"De Veritate, prout distinguitur à Revelatione, à verisimili, à possibili, à falso. Cui Operi additi sunt duo alii Tractatus; primus, de Causis Errorum; alter, de Religione Laici." Unà cum Appendice ad Sacerdotes de Religione Laici; et quibusdam Poematibus."

It was translated into French, and printed at Paris in quarto, in 1699.2 In this book the

the humours of the duke de Luines; so that, upon a complaint to our king, he was called back into England in some displeasure, but at his return gave such an honourable account of his employment, and so justified his comportment to the duke, and all the court, that he was suddenly sent back upon the same embassy. New Biog. Dict. vol. viii. p. 52.]

6 [By the title of lord Herbert of Castle-island.]

7 [By that of lord Herbert of Cherbury, in Shropshire.]

9 In the Parliamentary History, it is said that lord Herbert offended the house of lords by a speech in behalf of the king, and that he attended his majesty at York. Yet the very next year, on a closer insight into the spirit of that party, he quitted them, and was a great sufferer in his fortune from their vengeance. Vide Parl. Hist. vol. xi. p. 3. 87. [In 1639 he accompanied the English army in an expedition to Scotland, and wrote a poem at Alnwick, called "The Idea." See his Occasional Verses, p. 75.]

9 [From this, Mr. Malone supposes that Dryden took his title of Religio Laici.]

2 [In 1624, says Biog. Dict.; and again in 1633: Wood tells