Agriculture._ 30. _Magic, Sorcery, Witchcraft._ 31.
_Miraculous, Monstrous, and Supernatural._ 32. _Lives of
Eminent Persons._ 33. _Laws and Customs of divers Places._
34. _Tythes, Sacrilege, and Non-residence, &c._ 35. _Cases
of divers Persons._ 36. _Prisons and Prisoners._ 37. _Lives
of Murderers, Highwaymen, Pirates, &c._ 38. _Speeches of
Persons executed for divers Offences._ 39. _Justices,
Juries, and Charges._ 40. _Poor, and Charitable Uses._ 41.
_Matrimony, Divorce, &c._ 42. _Universities._ 43.
_Allegiance, Supremacy, Non Resistance, &c._ 44. _Bank and
Bankers._ 45. _Funds, Taxes, Public Credit, Money, Coin,
&c._ 46. _War and Standing Armies._ 47. _Admiralty and
Navy._ 48. _Letters on various Subjects._ 49. _Treatises of
Peace, Royal Prerogative, &c._ 50. _Navigation._ 51.
_Education, Grammar and Schools._ 52. _Ludicrous,
Entertaining, Satirical, and Witty._ 53. _English
Miscellanies._ 54. _Ecclesiastical and Civil History of
Scotland._ 55. _Do. of Ireland._ 56. _Grammars and
Dictionnaries._ 57. _Plays, and relating to the Theatre._
58. _Mathematics._ 59. _Astrology, Astronomy, and
Chymistry._ 60. _Horsemanship._ 61. _Cookery._ 62.
_Convocation._ 63. _Sieges, Battles, War, &c._ 64. _Pomp and
Ceremony._ 65. _Books relating to Writing and Printing._ 66.
_Essays on various Subjects._ It will probably be no very
unreasonable computation to allow to each of these remaining
divisions 80 volumes: so that multiplying the whole 50
divisions by 80 there will be the additional number of 4000
volumes to make the library complete. I ought to mention
that, in my account of this extensive library, I have not
included the _Pamphlets_. Of these alone, according to Mr.
Gough (_Brit. Topog._ v., i., 669), there were computed to
be 400,000! We will now say a few words about the private
character of Lord Oxford, and conclude with a brief account
of Osborne. Every body has heard of the intimacy which
subsisted between POPE and the Earl of Oxford. In the year
1721, when the latter was at his country seat, Pope sent him
a copy of Parnell's poems (of which he had undertaken the
publication on the decease of Parnell), with a letter in
poetry and prose. It seems that Pope wished to prefix his
own verses to the collection; and thus alludes to th
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