When the Arundelian MSS. were transferred, in the years 1831 and 1832, to the British Museum, their money value—for the purposes of the exchange as between the Royal Society and the Museum Trustees—was estimated (according to the historian of the Royal Society) at the sum of £3559. [Sidenote: Weld, _History of the Royal Society_, vol. ii, pp. 448, 449.] This sum was given by the Trustees, partly in money, and partly in printed books of which the Museum possessed two or more than two copies. The whole of the money received by the Royal Society was expended by its Council in the purchase of other printed books. So that both Libraries were benefited by the exchange. It may deserve remark that a somewhat similar transfer had been contemplated and discussed during the lifetime of the original donor. The project, at that period, was to make an exchange between the Royal Society and the University of Oxford. The University induced EVELYN to recommend Lord Henry HOWARD to sanction an exchange of such MSS. ‘as concern the civil law, theology, and other scholastic learning, for mathematical, philosophical, and such other books as may prove most useful to the design and institution of the Society.’ [Sidenote: Evelyn to Howard; 14 March, 1669.] But at that time, after much conference, it was otherwise determined. The heraldical and genealogical books belonging to the original ARUNDEL Library were given, at the date of the first transfer of the bulk of the collection to the Royal Society, to the Heralds’ College. They still form an important part of the College Library, and they include valuable materials for the history of the family of HOWARD. CHAPTER V. THE COLLECTOR OF THE HARLEIAN MSS. ‘A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.— POPE, _Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford, in the Tower_. ‘Whether this man ever had any determined view besides that of raising his family is, I believe, a problematical question in the world. My opinion is that he never had any other.... Oxford fled from Court covered with shame, the object of the derision of the Whigs and of the indignation of the Tories.’—BOLINGBROKE, _Letter to Sir W. Wyndham_. _The_ HARLEY _Family.—Parliamentary and Official Career of Robert_ HARLEY, _Earl of Oxford.—The Party Conflicts under Queen_ ANNE.—_Robert_ HARLEY _and Jonathan_ SWIFT.—HARLEY _and the Court of the Stuarts.—Did_ HARLEY _conspire to restore the Pretender?—History of the Harleian Library.—The Life and Correspondence of Humphrey_ WANLEY. [Sidenote: BOOK I, Chap. V. THE COLLECTOR OF THE HARLEIAN MSS.]