tioned by Walton were recovered from its hiding-place : For the learned Bishop, it is observable, that at that time there fell to be a modest debate betwixt them two about Predestination, and Sanctity of Life; of both which the Orator did, not long after, send the Bishop some safe and useful aphorisms, in a long letter, written in Greek; which letter was so remarkable for the language and reason of it, that, after the reading it, the Bishop put it into his bosom, and did often show it to many Scholars, both of this and foreign nations; but did always return it back to the place where he first lodged it, and continued it so near his heart till the last day of his life.' I must indulge the 'Pleasures of Hope' that such a Letter has not perished; and I invite Readers to keep a vigilant outlook for it.

IF the head of the House of Spenser, in his generation, was wisely advised to regard the name of Edmund Spenser in the roll of an illustrious ancestry as the richest jewel of his coronet;' and if to-day one is glad to find an Earl Spencer eager to accept the (possible) lineage, and covetous to spell with an 's' rather than a 'c,'-equally is it the 'gloir' of the families of Powis and Pembroke to be able -and perhaps more certainly-to inscribe in their descents the name of GEORGE HERBERT.

The late lamented SIDNEY HERBERT, Lord Herbert of Lea, father of the present Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, showed his sense of the honour by public speech and many a beautiful letter when he sought to enlist friends, far and near-and splendidly succeeded-in the erection of a Church at Bemerton, in memorial of GEORGE HERBERT,-his boast of being a Sidney melting into a yearning and wistful gratitude that he was also a HERBERT of the GEORGE HERBERT stock; while the present scholarly Earl Powis-and hence our Dedication, which mere rank never should have won-has given various proofs of his sympathetic estimate of the same kinship. Our genealogical researches have revealed to us others high-placed and noticeable intrinsically, who claim the 'blood' of GEORGE HERBERT, and hold it as an inestimable possession. d

VOL. I.

Turning to the elaborate Ten Tables' of Pedigrees of the noble family of HERBERT' prefixed by Earl Powis to his private edition of Lord HERBERT of Cherbury's 'Expedition to the Isle of Rhé' (contributed to the Philobiblon Society, 1860, 4to), the first begins with Charlemagne and Hildegardis, daughter of Childebrand, Duke of Swabia; passes to Pipin and Bernard, kings of Italy (A.D. 810, 818), to HERBERTS Counts de Vermandois; and ends in Sir WILLIAM HERBERT, who is called William ap Thomas, of Ragland Castle (in Welsh, Margoah Gles or Gumrhi). The second Table is as follows:

The last pair were the Father and Mother of GEORGE HERBERT, he having been their fifth son; their first, the afterwards variously-renowned EDWARD, Baron HERBERT of Cherbury.'

1 Lord Powis's volume, as before, pp. v.-xvi. As only 40 copies were printed, it is almost equal to Ms. The after Tables, iii. to x. are full of interest, though they are not without mistakes. Herbertiana: Montgomeryshire Collections, vol. vi. p. 410; vol. iii. p. 365; Burke's Landed Gentry, vol. i. p. 605, Hughes of Guerches.'