HERBERT, SIR THOMAS, was born at York about 1606, and entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1621, whence he removed to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1626 he went abroad in the suite of Sir Dodmore Cotton, ambassador from Charles I. to the Shah of Persia, through the interest and at the expense of his kinsman, William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, a man of cultivated and elegant talents, aud a generous encourager of learning. He sailed to Surat, thence to Ormus, traversed Persia northward to the Caspian Sea, and returned by Ispahan and Baghdad, down the Tigris; then proceeded to the coast of India, near Surat; visited (or at least described) the Straits of Malacca, Java, Pegn, the Molucca islands, &c.; and returned to England after four yeare' absence. In 1634 he published his ' Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great,' &c. (revised and enlarged by the author in 1633), which is an accurate and trustworthy work, and the beat account of Persia anterior to that of Chardiu. It contains a great many curious facts which the reader will hardly find anywhere else. The work was translated into Dutch by Van Vliet, and re-translated into French by Wicquefort. The Euglish edition is ornamented with a great many cuts. LCITARDIN, Sin Joux.] Herbert
espoused the cause of the parliament, and in 1617 was one of the commissioners appointed to receive the king from the Scots at New castle. In that capacity he attended the king to Holdenly Castle, and was selected by him, on the dismissal of his former attendant; to be about his person. Though, being a Presbyterian, ho was opposed in religion as well as politics to the opinions of Charles, still the respectful propriety of his behaviour won the regard of the royal prisoner, towards whom Herbert in biz turn appears to have conceived a strong veue ratiou and affection. Ile attended him to the last ; and after tho restoration his faithful service was rewarded by Charles II. with the title of baronet. In 1678 he published Threuodia Carolina,' an historical account of the two last years of the life of King Charles I., by Sir Thomas Herbert and others, reprinted by Nicol iu 1813. He died at York in 1082. Whence Oxoniesser, where there is an origival account of the last days and burial of Charles L, communicated to Wood by Herbert himself.)