[1160]Mr. George Herbert was kinsman (remote) and chapelaine to Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, and Lord Chamberlayn. His lordship gave him a benefice[1161]at Bemmarton[LXXXII.](between Wilton and Salisbury), a pittifull little chappell of ease to Foughelston. The old house was very ruinous. Here he built a very handsome howse for the minister, of brick, and made a good garden and walkes. He lyes in the chancell, under no large, nor yet very good, marble grave-stone, without any inscription.
[LXXXII.]In the records of the Tower it is writt Bymerton.
[LXXXII.]In the records of the Tower it is writt Bymerton.
Scripsit:—Sacred Poems, calledThe Church, printed, Cambridge, 1633; a booke entituledThe Country Parson, not printed till about 1650, 8vo. He also writt a folio in Latin, which because the parson[LXXXIII.]of Hineham could not read, his widowe (then wife to Sir Robert Cooke) condemned to the uses of good houswifry.
[LXXXIII.]This account I had from Mr. Arnold Cooke, one of Sir Robert Cooke's sonnes, whom I desired to aske his mother-in-lawe[1162]for Mr. G. Herbert's MSS.
[LXXXIII.]This account I had from Mr. Arnold Cooke, one of Sir Robert Cooke's sonnes, whom I desired to aske his mother-in-lawe[1162]for Mr. G. Herbert's MSS.
He was buryed (according to his owne desire)
with the singing service for the buriall of dead, by the
singing men of Sarum. Fr
Memorandum:—in the chancell are many apt sentences of the Scripture. At his wive's seate,My life is hid with Christ in God, Coloss. iii. 3 (he hath verses on this text in his poëms). Above, in a little windowe blinded, within a veile (ill painted),Thou art my hideing place, Psalm xxxii. 7.
He maried Jane, the third daughter of Charles Danvers, of Bayntun, in com. Wilts, esq. but had no issue by her. He was a very fine complexion and consumptive. His mariage, I suppose, hastened his death. My kinswoman was a handsomebona robaand ingeniose.
When he was first maried he lived a yeare or better at Dantesey house. H. Allen, of Dantesey, was well acquainted with him, who has told me that he had a very good hand on the lute, and that he sett his own lyricks or sacred poems. 'Tis an honour to the place, to have had the heavenly and ingeniose contemplation of this good man, who was pious even to prophesie;—e.g.
'Religion now on tip-toe stands,Ready to goe to the American strands.'
'Religion now on tip-toe stands,Ready to goe to the American strands.'
[1163]George Herbert:—