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    223 CHARITIES FOR WOMEN.

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    loved _Jonson b , tlie Sir patrons Phili of Sidney Shakespeare bCowley and b the Wotton elder dramatists by Donne , , be by

    -Isaac Walton y , the very p name , has y passed , into y a personal , affix in our language , and we call our sons Herbert , with as much pride as we

    do Alfred or William . At the time we refer to , one of the representatives of this family

    Sir Edward HerbertKniht of Blackballnear Newtown in was Montgomeryshire . Particulars , g of the matter are , lost to us , though

    metropolis possibly the of families Shrewsbury had , or been in the long noble intimate council , meeting -chamber in of the Ludlow little

    castlebut this we know that in 1579 or 1580 , Magdalen Newport was eldest married , son of this in her Sir mother Edward ' s house Herbert at E of y Blackhall ton to Richard . It was Herbert a union the

    that children , lasting sprung some Of from seventeen these it , the three years eldest daug , was son hters blessed Edward and in seven Herbert every sons way , live the . d Ten last to posthumous ,

    become the . celebrated , Lord Herbert of , Cherbury , the author of "De VeritateDe Keliione Gentilium" and of a very good " History

    , g , written of Henry : and VII the I ., " fifth that son is speaking was George relativel Herber y to t the how poet history , a man was made then

    famous by his friendships , rather than by the intrinsic worth of his verse , and by the happy fortune of his life forming one of

    those—Was shaped that traced " The the lives feather of , these whence good the men pen ,

    Dropped from an Angel ' s wing . " From the account left us bLord Herbert , his father seems to

    have been in the fullest sense a y noble man . Brave and handsome , a fair scholar and -well read in history , and so good a magistrate of

    his time and district as for the fame of his awards to long survive . He died after a brief illness in 1597 and his excellent wife

    thenceforth added his duty to her own in the , guidance of her children . It is probable that her early married days were passed at her

    mother ' s house at Eyton , for there her son Edward was born in 1581 , and there he remained under Lady Newport ' s tender care till

    he was nine years old . This lady lived to an advanced age . Archdeacon Blakeway in his " Sheriffs of Shropshire , " has this entry from

    a manuscript seen by Camden : " Lady Margaret Newport of Eyton , departed this life the tenth day of August 1598 , and was buried at

    , Rocksetter the next day following , being her will soe She was a _vertuoiis lady in all her life time , and very good to the poor

    in town and country , " Her eldest son , brother to Magdalen Herbert was knihted and became Sir Francis Newport ; and his son ,

    Richard Newport g , was elevated to the peerage by Charles I . in 1642 , bthe title of Baron Newport of High ErcaH . His son , the second

    baron y , was advanced to the dignity of Viscount Newport of Bradford in Shropshire in 1675 , and subsequently to that of Earl of

    Bradford in 1694 . By his wife who was a daughter of Francis , Earl of

    223 Charities For Women.

    223 CHARITIES FOR WOMEN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/7/