It was this earle that did set up all the painted glasse
scutchions about the house. Many a brave souldier, no doubt, was here
obliged by his Lordship; but time has obliterated their names.
Mr. Robert Barret dedicated the "Theorick and Practick of Moderne
Warres", in folio, London, 1598, to this noble Earle, and William Lord
Herbert of Cardiff, his son, then a youth. It seemes to have been a
very good discourse as any writt in that time, wherein he shews much
learning, besides experience. He had spent most of his time in
foreigne warres, as the French, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish; and here
delivers his military observations.
John Jones, an eminent physician in his tyme, wrote a treatise of the
bathes at Bath, printed in a black letter, Anno Domini 1572, which he
dedicated to Henry, Earle of Pembroke. [These dedications were
doubtless acknowledged by pecuniary gifts from the patron to the
authors. - J. B.]
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I shall now passe to the illustrious Lady Mary, Countesse of Pembroke,
whom her brother hath eternized by his Arcadia; but many or most of
the verses in the Arcadia were made by her Honour, and they seem to
have been writt by a woman. 'Twas a great pity that Sir Philip had
not lived to have put his last hand to it. He spent much, if not most
part of his time here, and at Ivychurch, near Salisbury, which did
then belong to this family, when he was in England; and I cannot
imagine that Mr.
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