this _vinous_ book
collector.[348]

[Footnote 346: Of the bibliomaniacal spirit of LORD LUMLEY
the reader has already had some slight mention made at pages
273, 281, ante. Of HENRY HASTINGS, Gilpin has furnished us
with some anecdotes which deserve to be here recorded. They
are taken from Hutchin's _Hist. of Dorsetshire_, vol. ii.,
p. 63. "Mr. HASTINGS was low of stature, but strong and
active, of a ruddy complexion, with flaxen hair. His cloaths
were always of green cloth. His house was of the old
fashion; in the midst of a large park, well stocked with
deer, rabbits, and fish-ponds. He had a long narrow bowling
green in it, and used to play with round sand bowls. Here
too he had a banquetting room built, like a stand in a large
tree. He kept all sorts of hounds, that ran buck, fox, hare,
otter, and badger; and had hawks of all kinds, both long and
short winged. His great hall was commonly strewed with
marrow-bones, and full of hawk-perches, hounds, spaniels,
and terriers. The upper end of it was hung with fox-skins of
this and the last year's killing. Here and there a pole-cat
was intermixed, and hunter's poles in great abundance. The
parlour was a large room, completely furnished in the same
style. On a broad hearth, paved with brick, lay some of the
choicest terriers, hounds, and spaniels. One or two of the
great chairs had litters of cats in them, which were not to
be disturbed. Of these, three or four always attended him at
dinner, and a little white wand lay by his trencher, to
defend it, if they were too troublesome. In the windows,
which were very large, lay his arrows, cross-bows, and other
accoutrements. The corners of the room were filled with his
best hunting and hawking poles. His oyster table stood at
the lower end of the room, which was in constant use twice a
day, all the year round; for he never failed to eat oysters
both at dinner and supper, with which the neighbouring town
of Pool supplied him. At the upper end of the room stood a
small table with a double desk; one side of which held a
CHURCH BIBLE: the other the BOOK OF MARTYRS. On different
tables in the room lay hawks'-hoods, bells, old hats, with
their crowns thrust in, full of pheasant eggs, tables, dice,
cards, and store of tobacco pipes. At one end of