An Autobiography of an Ancient Athlete & Antiquarian

66 AUTOBIOGRAPHY porter was literally blown off his feet and all the windows in the train were compulsorily opened to minimize the air pressure, and I don't mind admitting I was greatly relieved when the train bad crawled across safely. J .B.R. went up to Oxford this month for a Balliol Scholarship (Brackenbury History) which be won, though the youngest of the 30 entries. At the dinner given on 15th December, 1888, to celebrate the foundation of the Thames Hare and Hounds I was presented, as its founder, with a very fine and large silver salver, which, with all my cups, I passed over to my sons when I broke up my Lammas home mentioned hereafter. During r 888 I issued four books: - i. A reprint of J obn L'Estrange's Calendar of the names of the Freemen of Norwich for r 3 17 and 1603. ii. ''The Parish Register of Bircham Newton," which I found among the papers of Sir Hugh Beevor and which was ably edited for me by R. Howlett. iii. "The Persecutions of the Jews in England," published by the Anglo-Jewish Society, and 1v. "Records and Record Searching," which was really the printing of a mass of notes I had collected for my own use during the 25 years I had been working at the Public Records and which I thought might help beginners. It was extremely well reviewed in the English Historical Review, The Athenam:m, The Academy, Spectator, Satur– day Review, and other papers. In 1888 the then Master of the Rolls specially men– tioned it as a good manual. It was sold out, and I printed a second edition in 1897. In 1889, my son who had been working very hard for his scholarship, went away for a deserved rest to Dover, Sandwich, Richborough, Edenbridge, Bristol, Bath, Sali bury, Stonehenge, and the Isle of Wight. I bought the Flowerdew picture on 2nd February, and saw T .B.L. for the first time at P.B.F.'s excessively cold and draughty house at Hellesdon.