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224 CHARITIES FOR WOMEN.
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founders Bedford , he of had Preston various Hosp children ital . , ( amongst Burke s whom " Extinct we and shall D find ormant the
from Peerage Soon Mont . after " ) gomery the death castle of to her Oxford husband to act , Mag as dalen the moral Herbert guardian removed of
, her son Edward , who two years previously had become a gentleman commoner of University college . Here her noble life of prudence ,
courtesy , and duty , attracted the attention , as well as begot the " friendshi Wotton p Dr of . Neville the most and eminent John Donne men . , amongst Her friendshi these p for Sir the Henry last
ended onl , y with her , life . She assisted him in his days of adversity , preached and when her brig funeral hter days sermon came and and wept he was meanwhile Dean of what St . Paul doubtless ' s he
, , ¦ were sincere tears . The verses Donne addressed to Magdalen Herbert are sad doggerel , with the exception of one sonnet , a dedication
of some hymns now lost , which is quaint and neatly turned . At the close of her son ' s academical career , Lady Herbert removed with
him and his wife to Londonand there in 1609 and the twelfth year of her widowhood she married , Sir John Danversbrother and heir
, of the Earl of Danby . From this date to the close of her life she seems to have resided at Chelseathen a very pleasant and rural
place , though somewhat less so than , in the days of Sir Thomas Morewhere her husband had a mansion called Danvers House .
present It lay , amidst Chelsea gardens bridge , near but the it was river pulled , between down the about church 1696 and , and the
Danvers street built on its site . In this house Lady Danvers died , and Faulkner , from whose somewhat rare " History of Chelsea" we
gather these particulars , copies this entry from the parish register , " Magdalen Davers ( sic ) wiffe of Sir John Daversburied the eighth
, of June , 1627 . " There is a portrait of her by Zucchero at Weston hall , the Shropshire seat of the present Earl of Bradford , in which
she is called " Richard Herbert of _BlackhalTs wife , being daughter to We Newport must of be Arcole brief . with " what remains . Whilst still an Oxford
student , Edward Herbert was married on the twenty-eighth of February , 1598 , in the house at Eyton _, to Mary Herbert , a distant
relation and the orphan daughter and heiress of Sir William Herbert of StGillians . It was a mere mariage de convenanceto
. , answer the purpose of an absurd will , wherein the father had bound his daughter under forfeiture of propertyto marry one of the name
of Herbert . The ladwas older than her , husbandandfrom the inferences we draw y from his lifethe union was not , too , fruitful may ,
of happiness . In 1600 he removed with his wife and mother to Londonwhere he was kindly recognised at Court by the aged Queen .
At the accession , of James Lhe was made Kniht of the Bathand in 1608 he went to Pariswhere , he became g acquainted with , the
great constable Montmorency , , the hero of Dreux and St . Denis . After
this he served in the armies of the Low Countries , and subsequently
224 Charities For Women.
224 CHARITIES FOR WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/8/
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