_Ferrar, Nicholas._--The following extract from a very interesting paper on
"Illustrated Books" in the _Quarterly Review_, vol. lxxiv. p. 173, will aid
J.H.M. in his researches after the curious volumes arranged by the members
of the Ferrar family:

"King Charles's statues, pictures, jewels, and curiosities, were sold
and dispersed by the regicide powers; from this fate, happily, the
royal collection of manuscripts and books was preserved; neither was
it, like the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, doled out piecemeal to
Hugh Peters and his brother fanatics. This good service was mainly
owing to Bolstrode Whitelocke. When the British Museum was founded,
King George II. presented to it the whole of the royal library; and
Ferrar's _Concordance_, with another similarly illustrated compilation
by him, is there preserved in safety. The Rev. Thomas Bowdler of
Sydenham, the representative of the last baronet of the Cotton family,
the founders of the Cottonian Library, possesses another of the Ferrar
volumes. Of those which were presented by Ferrar to George Herbert and
Dr. Jackson, no record remains."

JOHN I. DREDGE.

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_Cardinal Erskine_ (Vol. ii., p. 406.) flourished later than your
correspondent G.W. supposes. He was in communication with Mr. Pitt about
1799-1800. Query, was he then in England?

W.H.C.