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ftudy, and to have entirely fupprefled the fire'which 
diftinguifhed his earlier years. At'the breaking out of 
the civil war he adhered to the parliament. We do not 
find, however, that he took any active part, and we only 
hear of his.Ioffes by the demolition of Montgomery- 
caftle by the king’s troops, for which he received a 
compenfation from the parliament. He died in London 
in 1648, and was N buried in the church of St. Giles’s-in- 
the-field^. His epitaph particularly records him as the 
author of the book, De Veritate. 
The character of lord Herbert is ftrougly marked in 
his “ Memoirs,” which come no lower than his -final 
return front ' the French einbafty. Of his'other writ¬ 
ings^. the work De 1 Veritate has the firfi place- for learn¬ 
ing and logical argument. Its purpofe is to afl'ert the. 
fuffioiency, univerfality, and abfolute perfection, of na¬ 
tural religion, with the view of proving the ufeleffnefs 
of revelation. Its firfi appearance was at Paris in 1624, 
but he reprinted it at London in 1633, and '1645, and 
difperfed it among the learned throughout Europe, ft 
was anfwered by Gafleridus. He foon followed this per¬ 
formance'by a piece entitled De Religione Gentiliu/n-, 
errorumque^apud eos caufis t in which he enquired into 
thojfe caufes which milled the priefts and fages of hea- 
thenifm in their notions of the Divine Being. Soon after 
his' death was pubiiflied his “ Hiftory of the Life and 
Reign of Henry VIII.” 1649, folio. This, in point 
of compofition, was efteemed one of the belt hifiorical 
works in the language. The Englilh ftyle of lord Her¬ 
bert is ftrong and manly, and free from the quaintnefs 
and pedantry which infected the age. A collection of 
his poems was publifhed by his fon, in 1665. His en¬ 
tertaining Memoirs .remained in MS. in.his own family, 
till.they were firfi printed by Mr. Walpol.e in 1764. 
HER'BERT (George), an eminent divine and poet, 
brother of the preceding, born in 1593. He was edu¬ 
cated at Weftminfter fchool, whence he was elected a 
fcholar of Trinity college, Cambridge. He attended 
very clofely.to his ftudies, was made fellow of his col¬ 
lege, M.A. and in 1619 chofen oratorof the univerfity. 
He. was .made a deacon in 1626, and was prefented to 
the prebend of Layton Ecclefia, in the dio'cefe of 
Lincoln. His firfi work was to rebuild, partly at 
his o wn coft, and partly by means of contributions, the 
decayed church of the place. He married the daugh¬ 
ter of a Wilffhire gentleman of family and fortune, and 
in 1630 took prieft’s orders, and was induced to the 
reCtory of Bemerton near Salilbury. He had not been 
long inducted, before he drew up a kind of brief riianual, 
entitled “ The Country.Parfon,” containing rules for 
the conduct of a perfon in that fituation; which are 
much praifed for their prudence and utility. His own 
behaviour was a perpetual comment upon thefe rules; 
and all who have mentioned him, confirm what his bro¬ 
ther lord Herbert has laid of him : “ His life was mod 
holy and exemplary, infornuch that about Salilbury, 
where he lived beneficed many years, he was little lei's 
than fainted.” He died of a decline in 1633. After his 
death, his friend, the pious Nicholas Ferrar, publifhed 
from/a MS. entrufted to him, “ The Temple : Sacred 
Poems, and Private Ejaculations, by Mr. George Her¬ 
bert,” Cambr. 1663 ; which were much read and ad¬ 
mired by the lovers of facred poetry. 
HER'BERT (Thomas), a writer of travels, born at 
York, and admitted of Jefus college, Oxford, in 1621. 
He removed thence to Trinity college, Cambridge, and, 
after a filort flay, went to attend upon his coufin, Wil¬ 
liam earl.of Pembroke, who in 1626, fent him to travel. 
He vilited fieyeral parts of Europe, Ada, and Africa ; 
and upon his return, he .married, and addicted himfelf 
to a ftudious life. In 1634 he pubiiflied “ A Relation 
ot 1 ravels into Africa and the Great Ada, efpecialiy the 
Territories of the Perfian Monarchy, and fome Parts of 
the Or.iential Indies, and I (lands Adjacent,” folio, with 
figures. This work came to a fourth edition in 1677. 
HER 
It was tranflated into French by M. Wicquefort. When 
the civil war broke out, he fided with the 'parliament, 
and was made a commiffioner to treat of the furrender 
of Oxford._ He accompanied the earl of Pembroke when 
he went as one of the parliameht-corrimiilioners to nego- 
ciate with the king at New.caftle. • When his majefty at- 
Holmby was required to difmifs the fervants who had 
attended upon him at Oxford, he chofe for grooms of his 
bed-chamber, Harrington, author of Oceana, and Mr. 
Herbert, as gentlemen of known learning and fober main 
ners. Mr. Herbert was entrufted by the king with fe- 
veral momentous concerns ; and remained with him the 
laft of his chamber-fervants, and did not quit him till 
He was brought to the block. After the reftoration, 
Charles II. rewarded Him for his faithful Cervices by 
creating him a baronet. He took up his refidence in his 
native city, York, where he was applied to by fir Wil. 
liam Dugdale for information refpetling the late king, 
and in confequence wrote, in 1678,. “ Threnodia Ciro-. 
lina, containing an Hifiorical Account of the two laft 
Years of the Life of King Charles I.” His other lite¬ 
rary laboifrs were, a tranflation of-fome books of the 
India Occidefitalis of John de Laet, and fotne aflift- 
ance to Dugdale in the compilation of the third volume 
of his Monajiicon. He died in 1682. He left feveral 
manuferipts to the public library at Oxford, and the 
cathedral-library at York; and fome of his colledtions 
from the regifter of the fee 'of York are in the Afhmolean 
mu leu m. 
HER'BERY, or Her'bury,/, The ancient name for 
an inn. Cowell. 
HERBES'CENT, adj. [herbefeens, Lat.] Growing into 
herbs. 
HERBES'SUS, in ancient geography, a town of Si¬ 
cily, at the north of Agrigentum, built by a Phoenician 
or Cartjraginian colony. Sil. Ital. 
HER'BESTEIN (Sigifmond), born at Vippach in 
Stiria, in i486, entered into the Imperial fervice in 
1506, and diftinguifhed himfelf againft ,the Turks. In 
1509 he was made commandant of all the Stirian 
cavalry; and was afterwards rewarded with the title 
of knight, and the dignity of court-counfellor. He 
was employed in various embafties to Denmark, Poland, 
and Mufcovy, and was created a privy-counfellor, and 
prefident of the Auftrian chamber. He went,‘in 1541, 
as ambaffador to the grand-fignior, then with his army 
near Buda. He had various other honourable employs; 
and at length, after having fetrved four emperors, re¬ 
tired from public life, and died in 1566. The baron 
Herbeftein occupied his leifure in compofing a hiftory 
of Mufcovy, which appeared at Bafil in 1561, under 
the title of Commentarii Rerum Mofeovitarum , folio. He 
alfo publifhed, in Latin and German, a hiftory of his 
own life, and of the Origin of his family. 
HER'BID, adj. \_kerbidus, Lat.-] Covered with herbs. 
HERBI'ERS (Les_), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Vendee, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Montaigue : two leagues and a half fouth- 
fouth-weft of Mortagne, and four and a half fouth-eaft 
of Montaigue. 
HERBIF'EROUS, ctdj. [from herba , Lat. an herb, 
and fero, to bear.] Bearing herbs ; producing herbs. 
HER BIG A'RK, o.a. [from heribergum, heriberga, haepe 
bejtg, Sax. a houfe of entertainment.] To harbour, to 
entertain : hence our herbinger, or harbinger, who pro¬ 
vides harbour or houfe-room, &c. 
HERBIGNAC', a town of France,'in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Loire, apd chief place Of. a canton, 
in the diftridt of Guerande : three leagues notth-.eaft of 
Guerande. 
HERBIN'IUS (John), a German Lutheran divine, 
born at Bitfch'en, in Silefia, on the borders of Poland, 
. in 1633. In 1672 he was nomiijated minifter of the 
Lutheran church at Wilna, in Lithuania; but he re-j 
linquifhed that fituation for a church at Grauderits, a 
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