_Sir Henry Herbert's Office-Book._--I should be glad to know if any of
your readers can tell me the "whereabouts" of Sir Henry Herbert's
Office-Book, a MS. frequently referred to by Malone, Chalmers, and
Collier. Sir Henry Herbert was Master of the Revels to King James the
First, and the two succeeding kings, and the said MS. contains an
account of almost every piece exhibited at any of the theatres from
August, 1623, to the commencement of the rebellion in 1641. Malone, in
his _Historical Account of the English Stage_ (edit. Boswell, iii. 57.),
says, in a note--
"For the use of this very curious and valuable manuscript I am
indebted to Francis Ingram, of Ribbisford, near Bewdley, in
Worcestershire, Esq., Deputy Remembrancer in the Court of the
Exchequer. It has lately been found in the same old chest which
contained the manuscript _Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury_,
from which Mr. Walpole, about twenty years ago, printed the life
of that nobleman, who was elder brother to Sir Henry Herbert."