ivalled by any subject.
His learning made him a fit companion for the literati.
Wilton will ever be a monument of his extensive knowledge;
and the princely presents it contains, of the high
estimation in which he was held by foreign potentates, as
well as by the many monarchs he saw and served at home. He
lived rather as a primitive christian; in his behaviour,
meek: in his dress, plain: rather retired, conversing but
little." Burnet, in the _History of his own Times_, has
spoken of the Earl with spirit and propriety.]

[Footnote 8: In the recent Variorum Edition of Pope's Works,
all that is annexed to Hearne's name, as above introduced by
the Poet, is, "well known as an Antiquarian."

ALAS, POOR HEARNE!

thy merits, which are now fully appreciated, deserve an
ampler notice! In spite of Gibbon's unmerciful critique
[_Posthumous Works_, vol. II. 711.], the productions of this
modest, erudite, and indefatigable antiquary are rising in
price proportionably to their worth. If he had only edited
the _Collectanea_ and _Itinerary_ of his favourite Leland,
he would have stood on high ground in the department of
literature and antiquities; but his other and numerous works
place him on a much loftier eminence. Of these, the present
is not the place to make mention; suffice it to say that,
for copies of his works, on LARGE PAPER, which the author
used to advertise as selling for 7_s._ or 10_s._, or about
which placards, to the same effect, used to be stuck on the
walls of the colleges,--these very copies are now sometimes
sold for more than the like number of guineas! It is amusing
to observe that the lapse of a few years only has caused
such a rise in the article of HEARNE; and that the Peter
Langtoft on large paper, which at Rowe Mores's sale [Bibl.
Mores. No. 2191.] was purchased for L1. 2_s._ produced at
a late sale, [A.D. 1808] L37! A complete list of Hearne's
Pieces will be found at the end of his Life, printed with
Leland's, &c., at the Clarendon Press, in 1772, 8vo. Of
these the "_Acta Apostolorum_, Gr. Lat;" and "_Aluredi
Beverlacensis Annales_," are, I believe, the scarcest. It is
wonderful to think how this amiable and excellent man
persevered "through evil report and good report," in
illustrating the antiquities of h