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that age, and as eafy and flowing as thofe of the prefent. I'he velic- ment friend, the bold injured ene- my, the lla efman and the fine gen- tleman, are confpiciious in them. ——He ceafed to be all thefe by the age of thirty-four •.
Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury,
One of the greateft ornaments of the learned peerage, was a man of a martial fpirit and a profound un- derftanding. He was made Knight of the Bath when Prince Henry was inilalled for the Garter; and being fent ambaflador to France to interpofe in behalf of the ProtelU ants of that kingdom, he returned the infolence of the great conftable Luynes with the fpirit of a gentle- man, without committing his dig- nity of ambaflador. It occafioned a coolnefs between the courts, but the blame fell wholly on the con- ftable. In 1625 Sir Edward was made a Baron of Ireland, in 163;. of England, but in the caufe of his country Tided with its reprefenta-
tivcs f . He died in 1648, having wiittcn,
' De Veritate, prout diftinguitur ' a Rcvelatione, a verifjniiii, a
- pofiibili, a falfo. Cui operi ad-
- diti funt duo alii tradtatus; pri-
- mu5 de caufis errorum; alter,
' de religione Laici, Una cum
- appendice ad Sacerdotes de reli-
- gione Laici; Sc quibufdam poe-
- matibus.' It was tranflated into
French, and printed at Paris in quarto, in 1659. In thi^ book the author aflerts the doctrine of innate ideas. Mr. Locke, who has taken notice of this work, allows his Lord (hip to be a man of great parts. Gaflendi r.nfwered it at the requeft of Piercfc and Diodati, but the anfwer was not publifhed till after GafTendi's death. Baxter made remarks on the treatife De Veri- tate, in his • More reafons for the ' Chriftian religion;' and one Kor- tholt, a foolifh German zealot, took fuch offence at it, that he wrote a treatife intituled, * De tribus Im- ' poftoribus magnis, Edvardo Her- ' bert, Thonna Hobbes, & Bene- ' di£to Spinofa, liber %.*
♦ De
- I fhall not dwell on the now aimed autlienticated ftory of Lady Notting-
ham, though That too long p.afled for part of the romantic hiflory of this Lord. I mention it but to obfervcthat the ear! had ^w^w provocation to her hufband— though no provocation is an excufe for murder. How much to be lamented that lb black, an afl was committed by one of our greateft hevoes, to whom Bri- tain has fignal oblioatj. ns! This was Charles HowarJ, Earl of Nottingham, the lord high Adimrii, and deflioy?r of the Spiinifli Armada. It feem3 Elfcx had hicrhly refented iisbeinc exprffTed in the Earl of Nottingham's patent, that the latter had equal fliare in the takiiio of Cadiz. He was io unrealbnable as to propole to have the patent cancelled, or offered to fig!u Nottingham or any of his fbns. Bacon-papers, p. 565. Alas! that revenge, intercft, and ingratitude, ftou, ' have Itamcd luch leivices and abilities as thole of Nottingham, Kaleigh, and Bacon!
•f In the Piiliamentary Hiftory it Is faid, that Lord Herbert offended the Houfe of Lords hv a fpeech in behalf of the King, and that he attended his majelly at Yoik. Yet the very next year, on a clol'er iniight into the fpirit of that party, he quitted them, and wrs a great luffsrer in his fortune from their vengeance. y. Pari. Hiji. 'vol. xi />. 3. 87.
X Gen. Di6t. vi>l. 6. p. 112. Wooil, vol.;. p. 118. In Leland's view of Deiftical writers, vcl. i . p. 24.. it is laid that there exilts a manul'cnpt life df this
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