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Eleven leaves, and a covering leaf, of 'A Dialogue between a Master and a Pupil' by Edward, first baron Herbert of Cherbury.

A sermon on I Corinthians, x, 32.

A sermon on Proverbs, xxix, 6.

One of two volumes of account books, 1719-38, kept by Henry, sixth baron Herbert of Cherbury, recording receipts and payments, including personal, household, and estate expenses, rents received, wages paid, etc. The records continue until April 18, 1738, the day before his death, and include many entries relating to the state of his health, both bodily and mental, to his wishes concerning the disposal of his body, etc.

One of two volumes of account books, 1719-38, kept by Henry, sixth baron Herbert of Cherbury, recording receipts and payments, including personal, household, and estate expenses, rents received, wages paid, etc. The records continue until April 18, 1738, the day before his death, and include many entries relating to the state of his health, both bodily and mental, to his wishes concerning the disposal of his body, etc.

An elegy by John Gardner on Anne 'Late Lady to . . . Edw: Lord Herbert Baron Cherbury viscount of Castle Island, &c., interred tewsday March 14th 1670'.

A copy of the marriage settlement, January 22, 1677, of Henry (aft. fifth baron) Herbert and Anne Ramsey; attorney's accounts of the estate of John Ramsey, father-in-law of Sir Henry Herbert (fifth baron); a copy of the will, July 25, 1707, of Sir Henry Herbert; a draft (incomplete) of the will of Charlotte, Lady Treschville; papers relating to the case of Corbett v. Herbert; etc.

Letters and papers relating to Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, and to other members of the Herbert family. They include an order to produce documents in the case of Sir Henry and Dame Susanna Herbert v. Thomas Plomer and others, Nov. 24, 1625; details of expenses incurred by Sir Henry Herbert during 'my Jorny to Yorke In attendance on my master Kinge Charles', March 11, 1638/9; a bond, May 30, 1640, between Sir Ralph Clare and Sir Henry' Herbert concerning an arbitration award; 'The Inventory of Apraysment of ye goods of Sir Henry Herbert seized ye 9th of January, 1645'; a bond, Dec. 11, 1660, between Sir Henry Herbert and Joshua Childrey; letters from Elizabeth Herbert to her husband, Sir Henry Herbert, and to her son Henry (afterwards fifth baron Herbert), and drafts of letters from the latter to his father; letters from Susanna Herbert to her father, Sir Henry Herbert; letters from Magdalen, daughter of Sir Henry Herbert, to her brother Henry, and letters to her from her husband, Charles Morley; a letter from Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Herbert, to her brother Henry and letters from her husband, Charles Hore, to her brother; a letter from George Evelyn, brother of the diarist, to Sir Henry Herbert; papers relating to the Kerry estates; 'Walter Montagu's declaration of his religion (when he joined the Roman Catholic Church) to his father the Earl of Manchester, 1635'; etc.

The Herbert Manuscripts belonged or relate mainly to Edward, first baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648; D.N.B., xxvi, 173), philosopher and metaphysician, and to his brothers, Sir Henry Herbert (1595-1673; D.N.B., xxvi, 195), Master of the Revels, and George Herbert (1593-1663; D.N.B., xxvi, 185), poet, and to other members of the Herbert family.

Herbert family papers, including letters, poems, accounts, financial and other memoranda, lists of books bought, lists of wearing apparel, linen] pewter, and plate, notes relating to Bewdley, Worcestershire, and other notes and papers by or relating to Sir Henry Herbert, Edward, third baron Herbert of Cherbury, Henry, fourth baron, Henry, fifth baron, Henry, sixth baron, and Francis Walker, cousin to the sixth baron. Among the writers, in addition to members of the Herbert family, are Henry Compton, bishop of London, and Erasmus Lewis, who writes from Abergwilly, 1709.

Miscellaneous notes and press cuttings, mainly relating to Montgomery Church, Bemerton church, and George Herbert.

Verses on the virtues, probably by Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, circa 1650.

Medical and other recipes, some of them probably in the hand of Henry, fifth baron Herbert of Cherbury.

'Of Knowledge and the Power Cognitive in G[ene]rall', Chapters I-XII (unfinished), possibly in the hand of Francis Herbert.
Mario Rossi in 'Alli fonti del materialismo a del deismo' (194[?4]) shows that this work is a redaction of a portion of 'Thomas Hobbes: De Corpore', 1655. Rossi holds that the redaction was made by Edward, first lord Herbert of Cherbury, probably between 1637 and 1640. If this is so, the manuscript gives us an early draft of a part of Hobbes's De Corpore.

Material mainly relating to political and parliamentary affairs, most of it of Herbert interest. It includes papers relating to the election of burgesses to Parliament for the borough of Bewdley, Worcestershire, 1679 and 1705; 'The Charge of the house of Comons agt John Lord ffinch Lord Keep of the great Seale of England, 1640'; 'An Abstract of the Gross and Neate Produce of the Excise of England & Wales in 4 yeares Ending 24th June 1688; 'an order of the commissioners for the monthly assessments of military payments, May, 1650; militia and army papers in relation to Henry, fifth baron Herbert, including an outline of the English 'Line of Battle', May, 1692, with details of the names of ships, the number of men and guns, names of captains, etc.; a memorandum relating to the rectory of Kerry, Montgomeryshire; 'A trew account of wt Wm Jones Received from Mrs. Jane Corbett . . . September 1691 at her House in Prevrnant . . . in the Parrish of Towin . . . Meryonethshire'; Lord Haughton's deed of gift of his personal estate to his brother, 1683; and miscellaneous petitions and letters.

Poems by John Donne, Francis Beaumont, [Aurelian] Townsend, William Congreve, and others, including 'Pindarick Ode. To the worthy & generous Patriot Henry Herbert Esqe uppon his happy & victorious Return to England', 'Prologue To Mr Congreve's New Comedy call'd The way of the World', and a poem beginning 'First the sweet Speaker Will: Williams I saw', and a few songs set to music. Some of the poems may be in the autograph of members of the Herbert family.

'Outlandishe Proverbs selected out of severall languages & enterd here the 21 August. 1637 At Ribsford. H.H.', probably collected by George Herbert (see The Review of English Studies, Vol. XI [1935], pp. 139-44) and copied by Sir Henry Herbert; poems; extracts from various Latin and other authors quoted to decide '1. Whether ye Lord Protector bee a Tyrant or not. 2. Whether It bee Lawfull to doe Justice upon him wthout solemnitie that Is to kill him. 3. Whether It Is like to prone proffitable or noxeous to ye Comonwealth'; and extracts from sermons and other works, mainly if not entirely in the autograph of Sir Henry Herbert.

'Religio Laici' by Edward, first baron Herbert of Cherbury. The manuscript may possibly be in the hand of Herbert; the corrections certainly appear to be in his hand.

'The Emperor Otho', a play in the autograph of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels.

A catalogue of the library of Edward, first baron Herbert of Cherbury, circa 1637, containing over nine hundred entries, some of them possibly in the autograph of Lord Herbert.