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The ollecin extinned at Orind many TH anating a preser; ad aegi appears to Lare ben bonght by Mearne, “the king's stationer," at the command of the secretary of state for Charles the Second; bu Charles, who would le valte od pamphlets, and more particularly these, which only reminded Lim of such mortifying occurrences, by an order in council in 1684 munificently allowed the widow of Meame to dispose of them as well as she could. In 1709 we find them offered to Lord Weymouth, and in 1732 they were still undisposed of; but in those times of loyal rebellion, either for the assump. tion or the restoration of the throne, that of the

* In 1678, Dr. Barlow, one of the trustees, writes to the Rev. George Thomason, who was a Fellow of Queen's College and the eldest son of the collector, respecting the collection and its value. The letter is printed in Beloe's "Anecdotes of Literature,” vol. ii.

↑ A letter from Dr. Jenkin, who was chaplain to Lord Weymouth, to Mr. Baker, Dec. 3, 1709-There is another rarity then to be sold, which is proffered to my lord-a Collection of Pamphlete, in mumber 30,000, bound in 2000 vols. The collection was begun by Charles 1st in 1640, and continued to 1660. In a printed paper, where I saw this account, it is said the collectors refused 4000 for them."-Masters' Life of Rer. Thomas Baker, p. 28.

Commonwealth excited so little interest, that this extraordinary collection was so depreciated, that Oldys then considered it would not reach the twentieth part of the four thousand pounds which it was said that the collector had once refused for it*. In 1745 a representative of the Mearne family still held the volumes†, and eventually they were purchased at the small price of three or four hundred pounds by George the Third, and by him were presented to the national

*

"Phoenix Britannicus,”—“ Oldys' Dissertation upon Pamphlets," p. 556. Oldys drew up an account of these pamphlets from "The Memoirs of the Curious," published in 1701. He says, that the Collection was made by Tomlinson, the bookseller, and the Catalogue by Marmaduke Foster, the auctioneer; and relates a traditional story, that it is reported that Charles the First gave ten pounds for reading one of these pamphlets, at the owner's house in St. Paul's Churchyard. This collection was not commenced until Nov. 1640, and the king left London in Jan. 1642; during this time the collection could not be very numerous, nor would there be that difficulty in seeing a pamphlet as at the subsequent more distracted period. It is curious to trace the origin of traditionary tales; they often stand on a ricketty foundation. We find that the king did borrow a pamphlet, but at a time when he could not hasten to St. Paul's Churchyard to read it; we may presume that the bookseller did not charge his majesty so disloyal a price as ten pounds for the perusal of a single pamphlet; he probably received only the king's approbation of his design, which doubtless was no slight stimulus to its completion.

+ A Mr. Sisson, a druggist in Ludgate-street, who died in 1749; they then became the property of his relative, Miss Sisson, who seems gladly to have disburdened herself of this domestic grievance in 1761.-Hollis' Memoirs, p. 121.

library, where they now bear the name of the King's Pamphlets.

Thus having escaped from seizure and dispersion, this noble collection remained in the hands of those who priced it as a valueless incumbrance, and yet seem to have respected the object of the enterprise, for they preserved it entire. It may be some consolation to such intrepid collectors that their intelligence and their fervour are not in vain, and however they may fail in the attainment of their motive, a great end may fortunately be achieved.

THE OCEANA OF HARRINGTON.

THE hardy paradoxes, not wholly without foundation, and the humiliating truths so mortifying to human nature, of the mighty "Leviathan," whose author was little disposed to flatter or to elevate his brothers*, were opposed by an ideal government, more generous in its sympathies, and less obtrusive of brute force, or "the public sword," in the OCEANA of JAMES HARRINGTON.

Free from mere party motives of the Monarchist or the Commonwealth-man, for he gratified neither, Harrington was the greatest of political theorists; and his "political architecture," with all his "models of government, notional and practicable," still remains for us, and has not been overlooked by some framers of constitutions.

The psychological history of HARRINGTON Combines with his works. His was a thoughtful youth, like that of Sidney, of Milton, and Gray, which never needed correction, but rather kept those around him in awe.

* I must refer the reader for the development of the system of Hobbes to "MISCELLANIES OF LITERATURE," p. 261, 1840.

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