In 1639, his confidential workman, Caspar Kaltoff, would have expended eleven years in constructing models and machines to establish the practicability of the many novel schemes which his Lordship had, up to that time, developed. Meanwhile, his own reading was no doubt pursued with vigour, and we cannot believe him to have been unpossessed of the celebrated authorities among English and foreign writers. He must have studied with interest Ramelli’s very elaborate volume, 1588, on machines, illustrated with one hundred and ninety-five large, finely executed copper-plate engravings; the popular Spiritalia of Hero of Alexandria; with even, perhaps, the works of the engineer and architect Solomon De Caus, published in 1615; together with the labours of many kindred writers. Judging, however, from internal evidence, there was one, among many English authors, whose work especially gratified his taste, the “Mysteries of Nature and Art,” by John Bate, which went through two editions, dating 1634 and 1635, containing a “Booke of Water-workes,” treating of “evaporating water, and rarifying ayre.” The peculiarity of such studies was sufficient to separate him from the fashionable society of Courts, and the too frequently frivolous society attendant even at Raglan Castle. If he then made few enemies, his conversation and pursuits were little calculated to enlarge his social acquaintance, and may even have early inspired a belief in his possessing equal eccentricity and enthusiasm. His memory, however, cannot fail to be cherished by posterity as the illustrious possessor of a highly cultivated intellect, displaying a singularly powerful, original, protean inventive genius. Footnotes [Illustration: H. Herbert (autograph) Henry, 1st Marquis of Worcester] [A] The annexed specimen of his Lordship’s autograph, during his father’s lifetime, is from a MS. certificate in the British Museum dated 21st May, 1604. [B] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603–1610. Edited by Mrs. M. A. E. Green. 8vo. 1857, page 529. [109] An. à Wood. Vol. 3, pp. 199–204. [Illustration: E. Worcester (autograph) Edward, 4th Earl of Worcester] [C] Bodleian Library, “Carte Papers--Earl of Huntingdon’s Papers, Temp. Eliz. Car. II. 77.” No 120. The annexed engraving is a facsimile of his autograph to the letter in question. [5] Atkyns. [D] Henry, Duke of Beaufort, died in 1699, at 70 years of age, so that he must have been born in 1629. [E] Dedication to the “Century.” [F] Ibid. [G] “The Century,” articles Nos. 21 and 26. [H] The “Century,” Dedication. [I] The “Century,” Article No. 56. [J] It is not certain how long Sir William Balfour was Lord Lieutenant of the Tower prior to 1641. CHAPTER III. EDWARD, LORD HERBERT’S SECOND MARRIAGE.