Thomas Herbert (15 May 1597 – 1642?) was a Welsh seaman and author.
Biography
Herbert was the sixth and posthumous son of
Richard Herbert, Lord of Cherbury
Richard Herbert (1557-buried 15 October 1596), Lord of Cherbury (or Chirbury) in Shropshire, and of Montgomery Castle, was an English Justice of the Peace and Parliamentarian.
Richard was the eldest son of Edward Herbert (died 1593) through w ...
and his mother
Magdalen, daughter of
Sir Richard Newport, and brother of
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (or Chirbury) KB (3 March 1583 – 5 August 1648) was an English soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.
Life
Early life
Edward Herbert was the ...
and poet
George Herbert
George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devoti ...
. He was born at
Montgomery Castle
Montgomery Castle ( cy, Castell Trefaldwyn) is a stone-built castle looking over the town of Montgomery in Powys, Mid Wales. It is one of many Norman castles on the border between Wales and England.
Its strategic importance in the Welsh M ...
on 15 May 1597.
He served as page to Sir
Edward Cecil
Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (29 February 1572 – 16 November 1638) was an English military commander and a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1624.
Life
Cecil was the third son of Thomas Ceci ...
in Germany, and distinguished himself by his gallantry at the
siege of Juliers in 1610, when aged 13. In 1616 he took service under Captain Benjamin Joseph, commander of ''Globe'',
East Indiaman. When Joseph was killed in an engagement with a Portuguese
carrack, Herbert assumed the command, and eventually beat off and disabled the enemy. He pursued his voyage to
Surat, arriving there in March 1617. Thence he went up the country to Mandow (
Mandu), where the great mogul kept his court. He returned in the autumn to Surat, and to England next year.
Herbert served under Sir
Robert Mansell
Sir Robert Mansell (1573–1656) was an admiral of the English Royal Navy and a Member of Parliament (MP), mostly for Welsh constituencies. His name was sometimes given as Sir Robert Mansfield and Sir Robert Maunsell.
Early life
Mansel was a ...
, in the expedition to
Algiers (1620–1621), and commanded the ship which brought
Prince Charles home from Spain in October 1623. He also carried
Count Mansfeld from Dover to Flushing on his expedition for the recovery of the Palatinate, January 1624 – 1625, when he lost the ship near the Dutch coast, but got Mansfeldt ashore in the long-boat.
Herbert was appointed to the command of
HMS ''Dreadnought'', 25 September 1625. From that date he had no promotion, and thinking himself ill-used, "retired", says his brother, "to a private and melancholy life, being much discontented to find others preferred to him; in which sullen humour having lived many years, he died and was buried in London in
St. Martin's, near
Charing Cross". The registers at St. Martin's contain no record of his death.
Bibliography
Herbert is probably the author of the following:
# ''Stripping, Whipping, and Pumping; or, the Five Mad Shavers of Drury Lane'', London, 1638, 8vo.
# ''Keep within compasse Dick and Robin, There's no harm in all this, or a merry dialogue between two or three merry cobblers, with divers songs full of Mirth and Newes'', 1641,
12mo.
# ''An elegie upon the death of Thomas, Earle of Strafford'' (heroic couplet), London, 1641,
4to
Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves. The leaves are then trimmed along the folds to produc ...
.
# ''Newes newly discovered in a pleasant dialogue betwixt Papa the false pope and Benedict an honest fryer, shewing the merry conceits which the friers have in their Cloysters amongst handsome nuns, and how the pope complains for want of that pastime; with the many shifts of his friends in England'', London, 1641, 12mo.
# ''An answer to the most envious, scandalous, and libellous Pamphlet, entituled Mercuries Message: or the copy of a Letter sent to William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, now prisoner in the Tower''(heroic couplet), London, 1641, 4to.
# ''A Reply in the Defence of the Oxford Petition, with a declaration of the Academians teares for the decay of learning, or the Universities feares: also the description of a Revd. Coachman which preached before a company of Brownists'', London, 1641, 4to.
# ''Vox Secunda Populi. Or the Commons Gratitude to the most Honourable Philip, Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery, for the great affection which hee alwaies bore unto them'', London, 1641, 4to, with verses by Thomas Cartwright appended in some copies.
# ''Newes out of Islington; or a Dialogue very merry and pleasant between a knavish Projector and honest Clod the Ploughman, with certaine songs'', London, 1641, 12mo, reprinted by J. O. Halliwell in ''Contributions to Early English Literature'', London, 1849, 4to.
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herbert, Thomas
1597 births
1642 deaths
17th-century English writers
17th-century English male writers
Royal Navy officers
17th-century English military personnel
Thomas
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* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
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