'De religionegentillum, eorumque apud eos causis.' The first part was printed at London 1645, 8vo, and the whole in 1663, quarto, and reprinted in 1700, octavo. It was translated into
English by Mr. W, Lewis, 1705, octavo.
'Expeditio Buckinghami Ducis in Ream infulam.' Published by Tim. Baldwin, LL. D. 1656, Lond. octavo.
'Life and reign of Henry the 'Eighth.' Lond. 1659, 1672, and 1682. Reprinted in Kennett's compleat History of England. The original manuscript was deposited by the author in 1643, in the archives of the Bodleian library. It was undertaken by the command of King James the First, and is much esteemed: Yet one cannot help regretting, that a man who found it necessary to take up arms against Charles the First, should have palliated the enormities of Henry the Eighth, in comparison of whom King Charles was an excellent prince. It is strange that writing a man's life should generally make the biographer become enamoured of his subject; whereas one should think that the nicer disquisition one makes, into the life of any man, the less reason one should find to love or admire him.
'Occafional poems.' Lond. 1665, octavo. Published by H. Herbert, his younger son, and by him dedicated to Edward Lord Herbert, grandson of the author.
Others of his poems are dispersed among the works of other authors, particularly in Joshua Sylvester's ' Lacrymæ lacrymarum, or the spirit of tears distilled for the untimely death of Prince Henry.' Lond. 1613. quarto.
In the library of Jesus College, Oxford, are preserved his Lordship's historical collections.
He is buried in St. Giles's in the fields, but had erected an allegoric monument for himself in the church of Montgomery, a description of which is given by Loyd. His Lordship had been indemnified by the Parliament for his castle of Montgomery, which they thought proper to demolish. {nop}}
Lord, drawn up from memorials penned by himself, in which is a most extraordinary account of his Lordship putting up a solemn prayer for a sign to direct him whether he should publish his treatise De Veritate or not; and that he interpreted a sudden noise, as an imprimatur. There is no stronger characteristic of human nature, than its being open to the grossest contradicitons: One of Lord Herbert's chief arguments against revealed religion, is the improbability that Heaven should reveal its will to only a portion of the earth, which he terms particular religion. How could a man (supposing the anecdote genuine) who doubted of partial, believe individual revelation? What vanity, to think his book of such importance to the cause of truth, that it could extort a declaration of the Divine Will, when the interests of half mankind could not!
