stories of Troye_ was valued at
eight guineas, the _Confessio Amantis_ at three pounds, and the
_Histories of King Arthur_ at two pounds, twelve shillings and sixpence.
The prices obtained for these books at the sale of the Osterley library
in 1885 were eighteen hundred and twenty pounds, eight hundred and ten
pounds, and nineteen hundred and fifty pounds, respectively. The
collection became part of the Osterley library, of which a catalogue was
made in 1771 by Dr. Thomas Morell, assisted by the preceding labours of
the Rev. Dr. Winchester. Only twenty-five copies of this catalogue were
printed.

Brian Fairfax's pictures, statues, urns, and other antiquities were sold
by auction on April the 6th and 7th, and the prints and drawings on May
the 4th and 5th, 1756.

In 1819 the library passed by marriage into the family of the Earls of
Jersey, and on the 6th of May 1885 and seven following days it was sold
by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge. The sale consisted of one thousand nine
hundred and thirty-seven lots, which realised the large sum of thirteen
thousand and seven pounds, nine shillings.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 64: The first wife of the Hon. Robert Fairfax was Martha
Collins, niece to Sir Francis Child, Bart.]

[Footnote 65: Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_,
vol. v. p. 326.]

THOMAS HEARNE, 1678-1735

Thomas Hearne, the eminent antiquary, was born in July 1678 at
Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire, where his
father, George Hearne, was the parish clerk. At a very early age he
showed such marked ability that Francis Cherry, the nonjuror, who
resided at Shottesbrooke in the same neighbourhood, undertook to
defray the cost of his education, and first sent him to the free school
of Bray, and afterwards, in 1695, to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. This
kindness is frequently referred to by Hearne, who speaks of his
benefactor as 'my best friend and patron.' He took the degrees of B.A.
in 1679, and M.A. four years later. While an undergraduate, Dr. John
Mill, the Principal of St. Edmund Hall, and Dr. Grabe employed him in
the collation of manuscripts; and Hearne tells us in his _Autobiography_
that, after taking his B.A. degree, 'he constantly went to the Bodleian
Library every day, and studied there as long as the time allowed by the
Statutes would admit.' His industry and learning attracted the notice of
Dr. Hudson, who had been recently elected Keeper of the Bodleian