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Excerpt from Remarks and Collections, Vol. 8
HE three years comprised in the present volume (sept., 1722 August, 1725) are not important ones in Hearne's life, but his Diary fully keeps up its literary and historical interest. There is less about coins, and fewer extracts from books, and fewer dissertations on antiquarian points. But the obituary notices of friends and foes in Oxford and elsewhere, and the current gossip of the University and City are very well represented. The deaths which most affected Hearne were those of John Bridges, his correspondent, on' March 16, 1724, Hilkiah Bedford on Nov. 25, 1724, and before them that of his aged father, George Hearne, parish clerk of White Waltham near Maidenhead, who died after a long period of decrepitude on Oct. 18, 1723. It appears that Hearne knew nothing of the event till two days after the funeral!
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