Bookplate of William Windham from a Latin treatise on the state by William Bellenden (1787). Windham began his career as a member of the militia, where he attained the rank of major, and like many of his generation expressed sympathies for the Revolution in France, before witnessing the events in Paris and turning against his earlier idealism.

Bookplate of Charles Yorke, son of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, and Lord Chancellor in Rockingham's administration, from a copy of Joseph Butler's Analogy of religion.

Bookplate of Arthur Young, agricultural reformer and experimenter, whose account of his travels in France during the period leading up to the Revolution is an important historical source. Several volumes in the Library bear this bookplate, most of which were given by Ernest Clarke.

Bookplate of George Lockhart of Carnwath, Jacobite politician who participated in the planning of the 1715 rising, from William Nicolson's Irish historical library (1724). After spending time in hiding on the continent, Lockhart returned to Britain to finish his memoirs, which were then hidden.

"John Lilburne his booke" inscribed on a fragment of printed waste bound as a fly-leaf in a volume of eleven tracts (C.11.30).

Bookplate of Philip Yorke, first Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor for nineteen years, from Francois Belleforest's L'histoire des neuf roys Charles de France (1568).

Given by Hugh Gatty.

Bookplate of John Somerset Pakington, Baron Hampton from Matthew Pilkington's The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters (1770). As a politician Pakington was a conservative, but spent much of his time promoting radical educational reform. He was also appointed First Lord of the Admiralty on two occasions.

Bookplate in Greek of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guildford from a 17th-century work on Swedish church history by Johannes Baazius. The Greek reads "O archon tes Ionikes Akademias Komes Guilford", referring to the Ionian Academy which he was instrumental in founding, owing to his lifelong philhellenism.

Bookplate of George Grenville, British Prime Minister 1763-1765, from Thomas Birch's Life of Henry Prince of Wales (1760).

Given by J.E.B. Mayor.

Gold-stamped arms of John Carteret, Earl Granville, from an edition of Euclid (1703). Carteret held the offices of both Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Secretary of State for Ireland, and was a major force in eighteenth-century politics.