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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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