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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, an English politician (1661–1724), and his son Edward: as, the Harleian collection (of several thousand manuscripts, now in the British Museum); the Harleian Miscellany (reprints from their collection of rare pamphlets, tracts, etc.).

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