Hearing that Frome had declared for the Duke of Monmouth, Pembroke marched out with a squadron of Militia Horse carrying some musketeers behind their saddles.

On arrival he found a large number of rebel recruits, some armed with pistols or pikes, others with scythes and clubs.

A shot was fired at him, but the rebels soon broke and ran before the advancing militia, who then captured the bridge after some fighting.

He then served as Lord Privy Seal until 1699, being in 1697 the first plenipotentiary of Great Britain at the congress of Ryswick.

[5] He is the dedicatee of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Greenhill's The Art of Embalming.