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curious advertisements of tobacco, tea, quack medicines, etc.; specimens of fine writing; and many other miscellaneous papers of much interest. Bagford was the author of a letter on the antiquities of London, prefixed to the first volume of Hearne's edition of Leland's _Collectanea_; and also of an _Account of London Libraries_, first printed in 1708 in _The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious_. This little brochure was continued by Oldys, and the complete work published by Mr. James Yeowell in 1862. _The Essay on the Invention of Printing, by Mr. John Bagford_, in vol. XXV. of the _Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society_, was, Dibdin says, drawn up by Wanley. The collection of ballads has been edited by the Rev. J.W. Ebsworth for the Ballad Society. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 51: It is somewhat doubtful whether a few of these belonged to Bagford.] [Footnote 52: Probably given to Bagford by Michael Maittaire, the collector, who possessed a very imperfect copy of the Gutenberg Bible, which sold for fifty shillings at the sale of his library.] [Footnote 53: This is believed to be the map alluded to by Shakespeare in Act. iii. Sc. 2 of _Twelfth Night_, where he makes Maria say of Malvolio: 'He does smile his face into more lines than there are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies.'] THOMAS HERBERT, EIGHTH EARL OF PEMBROKE, 1656-1733 Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke, who was born in 1656, was the third son of Philip, the fifth Earl. By the deaths of his elder brothers, the sixth and seventh Earls, he succeeded to the title in 1683, and from that time to his death in 1733 he held many of the highest appointments in the State. He was one of the representatives of England at the treaty of Ryswick, and he carried the Sword of Justice at the coronations of William and Mary, Anne, George I. and George II. He was also President of the Royal Society in 1689-90. Many of the Earls of Pembroke were men of culture and patrons of learning. In 1629 William, the third Earl, gave to the University of Oxford, of which he was Chancellor, a very valuable series of Greek manuscripts collected by Giacomo Barocci, a gentleman of Venice; and in 1649 his brother Philip, the fourth Earl, gave to the same University, of which he was also Chancellor, a splendidly bound copy of the Paris Polyglot Bible, printed in 1645 in nine volumes. These two brothers are 'the incomparable pair of brethr
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