Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford, a Trustee of the Cotton Library under the Act of 1700, 139; Parentage and Descent of, 203; his first public appearance on occasion of the Revolution of 1688, 204; his Parliamentary and Official Career, 205 _seqq._; his Secretaryship of State, 207; he protects De Foe, 208; the crime of William Gregg and the use made of it by Harley’s enemies, 210; his dismissal from the Secretaryship, 211; he intrigues against the Godolphin Ministry, 212; becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer, 213; his friendship with Swift, 214; Guiscard’s attempt on his life and its results, 217; he becomes Lord High Treasurer, 219; his intercourse with the ‘October Club,’ 220; and with the Jacobite exiles, 221 _seqq._; his intercourse with George the First, 229; his impeachment, 230; and trial, 232; returns to Parliament, 233; his Domestic Life, 234; the History of his Library, 235, 477 _seqq._; its Acquisition by Parliament, 242; extracts from the Stuart Papers illustrative of the intercourse of Lord Oxford with the Jacobites subsequently to the Accession of George I, 242 _seqq._ Harley, Edward, Earl of Oxford, 241, 307 Harpagus, Monuments of the Conquest of Xanthus by, 662 Harpy Tomb, or Pandarus-Tomb, brought from Xanthus, 649, 654 Hartweg, Mr., Zoological Collections made in Mexico by, 581 Hawes, Sir Benjamin, 544 Hawkins, Edward, 43, 532 Hawkins, Ernest, 549 Hawkins, Thomas, 34 Hawley, Sir Henry, 507 Hays’ Egyptian Antiquities, 45 Heber, Richard, 483 Hebrew Books, Collections of, 42, 329 Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I, 186 Henry III, King of England, 79 Henry V, King of England, 79 Henry VII, King of England, 113 Henry VIII, King of England, 54 Henry, Prince of Wales, Life and Character, 153 _seqq._; his intercourse with Ralegh and his influence upon Naval Affairs, 160; his purchase of Lord Lumley’s Library, 162; the projects for his marriage, 164; his death, 166; union of his Library with that at Whitehall, 167; subsequent history of the Royal Library until its incorporation with the British Museum, 168 _seqq._ Heralds’ College, Arundelian MSS. at the, 202 Herbert, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 235 Herbert, Elizabeth, 134 Herbert, Lord Chief Justice, 278 Herculaneum, Explorations at, 353 Hickes, Sir Michael, 426 Hickes, Sir William, 426 Hill, Sir John, 322 Hoare, Sir Richard Colt, Benefactions of, 459 Hoeck, J. van, 240 Holles Bentinck, Margaret, Duchess of Portland, 242 Holles, Thomas, 347 Holwell Carr, William, Bequest of Pictures to the British Museum by, 30 Homer, Palimpsest Fragments of, found amongst the MSS. from the Nitrian Monasteries, 624 Honeywood, Elizabeth, 133 Hope Collection of Vases, 715 Hornemann, Frederick, 504 Horsley, Samuel, Bishop of St. Asaph, 506 Hosking, William, 586