| Richard Towneley, 1702, | [Frontispiece] |
| | | PAGE |
| Everard Green, Rouge Dragon. By G. W. Eve, | [x] |
| PLATE |
| I. | Sir Thomas Isham. By Loggan, | [9] |
| II. | Francis de Malherbe, | [25] |
| III. | Sir Nicholas Bacon, | [27] |
| IV. | Sir Thomas Tresham, 1585, | [29] |
| V. | Gore. By Burghers, | [35] |
| VI. | Marriott. By Faithorne, | [37] |
| VII. | St. Albans Grammar School, | [41] |
| VIII. | Charles James Fox, | [45] |
| IX. | Thomas Knatchbull, 1702, | [51] |
| X. | Sir Thomas Hare, 1734, | [61] |
| XI. | James Brackstone, 1751, | [63] |
| XII. | Bishop of Kilmore, 1774, | [67] |
| XIII. | Birnie of Broomhill, | [71] |
| XIV. | Gift by George i. to Cambridge, 1715, | [77] |
| XV. | George Lambart. By Hogarth, | [80] |
| XVI. | John Wiltshire, | [83] |
| XVII. | Dr. William Oliver, | [85] |
| XVIII. | Dr. Thomas Drummond. By Sir R. Strange, | [89] |
| XIX. | Lady Bessborough. By Bartolozzi, | [93] |
| XX. | William Hewer, 1699, | [101] |
| XXI. | The Record Office in the Tower of London, | [105] |
| XXII. | Southey. By Bewick, | [111] |
| XXIII. | Gift-Plate to Buxheim Monastery, | [115] |
| XXIV. | Ebner. By Albert Dürer. 1516, | [119] |
| XXV. | Paulus Speratus, | [123] |
| XXVI. | 'È Bibliotheca Woogiana,' | [129] |
| XXVII. | Electoral Library of Bavaria, 1618, | [133] |
| XXVIII. | Charles de Sales, | [139] |
| XXIX. | Amadeus Lulin. By B. Picart, 1722, | [145] |
| XXX. | Michael Lilienthal, | [165] |
| XXXI. | David Garrick, | [169] |
| XXXII. | Lady Bath, 1671, | [187] |
| XXXIII. | Countess of Oxford and Mortimer. By Vertue, | [191] |
| XXXIV. | Frances Anne Hoare, | [197] |
| XXXV. | Bishop Hacket. By Faithorne (Portrait), | [201] |
| XXXVI. | Sir Christopher Musgrave, | [205] |
| XXXVII. | Francis Carington, 1738, | [207] |
| XXXVIII. | Benjamin Adamson, 1746, | [209] |
| XXXIX. | William Oliver, 1751, | [211] |
| XL. | Samuel Pepys. By R. White (Portrait), | [217] |
| XLI. | Francis Perrault (Portrait), | [219] |
| XLII. | Robert Bloomfield, 1815, | [229] |