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HER'B AGE, f. \Jierbage, Fr.} Herbs collectively; 
grafs ; pafture.—At the time the deluge came, the 
earth was loaded with herbage, and thronged with ani¬ 
mals. Woodward. 
Rocks lie cover'd with eternal fnow; 
Thin herbage in the plains, and fruitlefs fields. Dryden. 
In law, he that hath herbage of a foreft by patent, 
may have trefpafs for the grafs, but not for trees or the 
fruit of them ; and he. may take.beads damage-feafant, 
and have quart claufumfregit, and by fuch grant may in- 
plofe the forefi. Yet the grantee of herbage may in- 
clofe, and may ha ve'action of trefpafs quare claufum fregit. 
But, though he that hath herbage may inclofe, yet he 
that hath reasonable herbage cannot. Dyer, 285. 2 .Ro. 
Rep. 356. Grantee of herbage of a park cannot difpark 
it. Godb. 419. A leafe was made of a manor with all 
gardens, orchards,'yards, &c. and with all the profits 
of a wood, excepting to lefior forty acres, to take at his 
pleafure ; per Dyer, The wood is not compromifed with¬ 
in the leafe, but theleflee fhall only have the profits, as 
pannage, herbage. See. 4 Leon. 8. 
HER'BAGED, adj. Covered with grafs. 
Delicious is your fiielter to the foul, 
A3 to the hunted hart the fallying fpring, 
Or ftrearn full flowing, that his dwelling fides 
Laves, as he floats along the herbag’d brink. Thomfon. 
HER'BAL, f. [from herb .] A book containing the 
names and defeription of plants.—We leave the de- 
feription of plants to herbals, and other like books of 
natural hiftory. Bacon. —For a feleCtion of the snoft va¬ 
luable aromatic and medicinal herbs that grow in Eng¬ 
land, I could refer you to Culpeper’s Herbal. Dr. Mead. 
HER'B ALISM,/. The knowledge of herbs. Scott. 
HER'B ALIST,/ [from herbal. ] A perfon (killed in 
herbs.— Herbalijls have diftinguifhed them, naming that 
the male, whole leaves are lighter, and fruit rounder. 
Brown. 
HERB ALMA'R A, a town of Arabia, in the province 
of Hadramant: 148 miles fouth of Amanzirifdin. 
HER'BAR,/ An herb, a plant. Spenfer. 
HERBA'RIOUS, adj. Pertaining to herbs. Scott. 
HER'BARIST, /. [from kerbar.] One fkilled in 
herbs. 
HERBAT'IC, adj. Belonging to herbs. 
HER'BAULT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Loire and Cher, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrict of Bl.ois : eight miles weft of Blois. 
HER BE,/. [French, grafs.] A kind of reward given 
to a horfe that has,performed well in the manage. 
HER'BE, a town of Italy, in the Veronefe, belonging 
to the ftate of Venice: fifteen miles fouth of Verona. 
HER'BEDE, a town of Germany, in Wefiphalia: 
two miles eaft-north-eaft of Blankenftein, 
HER'BELET, f. [Diminutive of herb, or of herbula, 
Lat,] A fmall herb.—Thefe kerbelets which we upon 
you (trow. Shakefpeare. 
HER'BELOT (Bartholomew d’), a learned French 
profeiror of oriental literature, born at Paris in 1625. 
After palling through a courfe of general fiudy, he 
made a particular application to the Hebrew language, 
and took a journey to Italy in order to converfe with 
the Orientals who frequent its ports; and at Rome he 
contracted an intimacy with Lucas Holftenius, and Leo 
Allatius, two of the moll learned men of his age. His 
reputation foon acquired him the notice of many per- 
fons of eminence, particularly of .Ferdinand 11. grand- 
duke of Tufcany, who purchafed for him a valuable 
collection of Ealtern manuferipts. In that country 
he firft commenced his Bibliotheque Orient ale \ and upon 
being recalled to Paris by the exprefs orders of 
Colbert, a penfion was fettled upon him to enable him 
to continue his labours. By the recommendation of 
the chancellor Pontchartrain, he was nominated to thq 
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royal profefforfhip of the Syriac language, in which port 
he died in 1695, at the age of feventy. He was a man 
of .general erudition, and of an eftrmable private 
character. His great work, La Bibliotheque Orientale, 
Par. 1697, folio, fince reprinted in Holland, is a vaft 
collection of every thing relative to the hiftory, biogra¬ 
phy, - manners, and cuftoms, of the Eafiern nations. A 
'Supplement has fince been added to it from the papers 
of meflteurs Vifdelou and Galland, Hague, 1779. 
HER'BEMONT, a town inthe duchy of Luxemburg,., 
fituated on a mountain near the Semoy: twenty miles 
weft of Arlon. 
HER'BERSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria : five miles weft of Hardeburg. 
HER'BERT, [of hepe, an army, and beophr, Sax. 
bright, q. d. the glory of an army : Verftegan derives 
it of hepe. Sax. and bericht. Tent, inftrutted, q. d', an 
expert foldier.] A chriftian and ftirname. 
HER'BERT (William), earl of Pembroke, and 
Mary, countefs of Pembroke, both defervedly cele¬ 
brated in the republic of letters. See the article He¬ 
raldry in this volume, p. 492. 
HERBERT of Cherbvry (Edward),, a nobleman 
eminent for his high character and Writings. He was 
born at the caftle of Montgomery in 1581, and attained 
fo early the rudiments of learning, that at the age of 
twelve he was fent to Univerfity college in Oxford. 
His abode at that feminary was terminated by the death 
^of his father, Richard Herbert, efq. in 1598. In 1600 
he came to London, and (hortly after the acceflion of 
James I. was created a knight of the Bath. He ferved 
the office of high-ftieriff of Montgomery (hire, and di¬ 
vided his time'between the country and court; till at 
length, about 1608, he fet out on his travels to the con¬ 
tinent. His advantageous perfon and manners, and the 
reputation for courage which he acquired, gained him. 
many friends, among whom was the conftable Montmo- 
.renci. At a feat of this nobleman he pafled a fummer, 
praitifing horfemanftiip and other manly exercifes, in 
which he was found Angularly expert. He returned to 
England the following year ; which he quitted again in 
1610, in order to ferve-in the Englifti forces fent to affift 
the prince of Orange at the fiege of Juliers. Here he 
fignalifed himfelf by a valour which furpafled all hiscom- 
peers. After the fiege, he vifited Antwerp and Bruflels, 
and then returned to England, whither his reputation 
had preceded him, and where he flood as one of the 
confpicuous characters of that age. In 1614, he went 
again into the Low-countries, to ferve under the prince 
of Orange. The account of this campaign contains fe- 
veral initances of his perfonal valour, and of the refpeCt 
paid to him by great men. Alter its conclufion he 
made a tour in Italy ; and at Turin he engaged with the 
duke of Savoy to condudt from France a body of Pro- 
teftants into Piedmont for his fervice. This enliftment 
being forbidden by the French court, he was arrefted 
by the governor of Lyons, but foon obtained bis libera¬ 
tion. He pafled the next fummer with the prince, of 
Orange, and then returned to England. In 1616, he 
was fent ambafiador fo the court of France. A man of 
his afpiring difpofition was not likely to fuffer fuch an 
honourable office to be degraded in his polfeflion through 
want either of fplendor.or of fpirit ; and the obfervations - 
he has left refpedting the characters of Louis XIII. and 
his favourite Luines, difplay much political fagacity*. 
It was at Paris that, in 1624, he printed his famous 
book De Veritate prout dijlinguitur a Revelatione , which 
he had planned arid begun in England ; where, on his 
return, in 1625, he was created an Ir-i(h peer, and after¬ 
wards an Englifti baron, with the title of Lord Herbert 
of Cherbury in Shroplhire. Nothing more is heard of 
him in public life ; and, as he hints in his Memoirs at 
difappointments, it is probable that, after the death of: 
his friend, the duke of Buckingham, he loft his intereflr 
at court. He feems to have chiefly occupied himfelf in 
1 ftudy,. 
