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inlaying the pictures in the volume, but some of the illuminated 
borderings in gold and colours are very beautiful. The fifty 
pictures belonging to England comprise Anne of Cleves, 
Queen of England; Henry VII. and VIII.; Edward VL. ; 
Catherine of Aragon; Anne Boleyn ; Mary I.; Elizabeth ; 
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots ; and James I. ; besides numerous 
historical characters who lost their heads under the axe. 
The Countess did not live long enough to complete all the 
biographies and borders. She died in 1761, at Marlborough, 
on her way to Bath, from dropsy. The “ Dictionary of 
National Biography ” gives a very favourable account of her 
character; she was a voluminous writer of letters all her 
life. On the bankruptcy of Fermor, 1st Lord Pomfret, she 
bought in the Arundel Marbles, and presented them to the 
University of Oxford, where they still remain in the Taylor 
Buildings, and a mural tablet to her memory and her gift is in 
the Chancel of S. Mary’s Church. 
The history of this handsome folio volume can be briefly 
stated. Inside the cover will be seen the book-plate of the 
and Earl of Shelburne. He was Prime Minister in 1782, and 
was created 1st Marquess of Lansdowne in 1784, dying in 
1805. At the sale of his effects this volume appeared in the 
catalogue of his library, the extracted portion is still pasted 
inside the cover. It runs thus :— 
“ Heads of Illustrious Men (100) English and Foreign, by 
Nanteuil, Hollar (all very fine and some rare), Morin, from 
the Herodlogia, by Mellan, etc., etc. The whole collected by 
Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, Countess of Pomfret, 1730 (each 
print inlaid and bordered) with Biographical sketches of the 
Lives and characters, very elegantly written in compartments, 
enclosed by neatly pencilled borders in gold and colours by 
Herself.” 
At the sale this book was purchased by Henry Blayney 
Martin, of Ashfield Lodge, Bury St. Edmunds, who died at 
Sidmouth in 1824, leaving it to his eldest daughter, Harriet, 
wife of Major Robert Fryer Phillips, R.A. She died in 1871, 
at 6, Russell Street, Bath, and it passed with her property to 
her nephew, the Rev. W. W. Martin, Rector of Shepperton, 
Middlesex, 1876-1900, and now of 49, Pulteney Street, Bath- 
wick, by whose gift it has now become the property for ever 
of the City of Bath, and its Guildhall Library. : 
