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Thomas Herbert, Eighth Earl of Pembroke and Fifth Earl of Montgomery (c.1656 - 22 Jan 1733)

8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery and member of the House of Commons before assuming the peerage in 1683. He was President of the Royal Society in 1689–1690 and was a collector and virtuoso: "He was more devoted to the arts and archaeological pursuits than to natural science. He formed the celebrated cabinet of Coins and Medals, and collected the Marbles at Wilton" (Weld, I.321). Possibly the "Lord P" mentioned in Courten's account books. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/13050 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Herbert,_8th_Earl_of_Pembroke Relevant locations: Past Location at Wilton, Wiltshire
Residence at London, England
Residence at Oxford, Oxfordshire
Title (royalty or holy order) Pembroke, Pembrokeshire
 Relationships: Thomas Herbert was a source of object(s) for William Courten (28 Mar 1642-26 Mar 1702)
Thomas Herbert was a friend of John Locke (29 Aug 1632 -28 Oct 1704)
Thomas Herbert was a member of Royal Society (-)
Thomas Herbert was a source of object(s) for Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

William Courten (28 Mar 1642-26 Mar 1702) was a seller to Thomas Herbert
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - A History of the Royal Society, With Memoirs of the Presidents. Compiled from Authentic Documents.
 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

95. His Grace my Lord Archbishop of Yorke's most accurate Treatise, I. Of the Silver Coins of England; wherein, 1. Of the several Pieces; 2. Of the Fineness of our English Coins: 3. Of the different Weight of our Coins of the same Denomination in the several Reigns, arising from the Increase of the Price or Value of Silver. 4. Of the Impresses or Stamps upon our Coins. 5. Of the Inscriptions. 6. How to distinguish the Coins of the several Kings of the same Name (as two Williams, eight Henrys, six Edwards, and three Richards.) II. Observations on the Golden Coins of England; 1. Of their Fineness, which we call the Standard; 2. Of the Proportions between Gold and Silver, with Respect to their Values; 3. Of the several Pieces from the first Coining of Gold to the Reign of K. Henry VIII. 4. Of the Stamps and Inscriptions of the foregoing Pieces. 5. Of the several Pieces from the first of Hen. VIII. to this Time: 6. A farther Account of those Pieces as to the Impresses and Inscriptions. 7. A Table of the present Rates of Gold for the more easily finding the Value of the old Pieces. III. Observations on the Scots Money; 1. Of the Scots Weights and Standards: 2. Of the Scots Sums compared with the English, and the different Proportions they bore to one another in the several Reigns; 3. Of the several Scots Pieces. IIII. Of the Irish Coins, to K. James IId's inclusive. Don. R. R. DD. Archiepiscopi Ebor. To this may be added what I had the Honour to receive from another Noble Lord, the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Pembroke, viz. An Account of the fourteen distinct Sorts of the Silver Monies of England, from a Farthing to the Twenty Shillings Piece; and who are said by our Historians to coin the first of each Sort; with what particular Exceptions are in his Lordships inestimable Musæum: For Example, whereas K. Edw. Ist. 3d. and 6th. are said to Coin the first Silver Farthings, Groats and Crowns, his Lordship hath a round Farthing (not the 4th Part of a Penny broken, as had been usually currant before) of K. Hen. 3d's. A Groat of Edw. I. and an English Crown of Henry VIII.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Goltzius of the Greek and Roman Coins, in 5 Vol. Fol. Du Choul (the same that Rosinus in his Antiquities calls Gul. Brassicanum, because Choul in French signifies Brassica, or Colewort) sur le castramention & discipline militaire des anciens Romains. Also des Bains & Antiques exercitations Grecques & Romains; and lastly, his Discourse. de la Religion des anciens Romains. 4to. Lyon 1580 and 81. Anton. Augustinus Archiepiscopus Tarracon. de Nummis Romanorum. Fol. 1617. Antwerp. cum Iconibus. Helmarius upon the Gold Medals of the Duke of Arschot, 4to. Antv. 1627. The Figures engraved upon Copper-Plates, by Jac. de Bie, the same curious Artist who did those of the said Archbishops. Jac. de Wildes selecta Numismata, 1692. Amstel. The Present of the truly Noble Tho. Earl of Pembroke. And Mr. Wren's Numismatum Antiquorum Sylloge Populis Græcis, Municipiis, & Coloniis Romanis cusorum: The learned Author's Present.