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 | | gentleman was elevated to the peerage, by the titles of Baron Harley, of Wigmore, county Hereford, Earl of Oxford, and Earl of Mortimer, with remainder in default of male issue to the heirs male of his grandfather, Sir Robert Harley, Knight of the Bath. |
 | | Edward, Second Earl of Oxford, devoted himself much to Literature; and the country is much indebted to him for the celebrated collection so well known as the Harleian Miscellany, purchased by parliament from the Countess in 1754, after the Earl's death, and deposited in the British Museum. |
 | | The Earl dying with out male issue, 16th June, 1741, the honours devolved, according to the reversionary clause in the patent upon his first cousin Edward Harley. |
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