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church since the early part of last January, and never 

 expected to be in church again, except on my way to 

 the grave. 



July. Longparish. From the ist I have been so 

 dreadfully ill that I could do nothing. My nights have 

 been as awful as before. 



jth. The thunder and lightning all night caused 

 such oppressive heat that no one could rest in bed. My 

 sufferings could scarcely be conceived. 



%tk to \^th. Too ill to get about save by quiet easy 

 drives in the carriage, and to crawl out to look at all the 

 grand repairs outside the house, which are now done. 

 Attended by Dr. Hempsted twice a day, as my sufferings 

 are alarming. We have had incessant wet weather ever 

 since I returned to Longparish, and consequently the 

 heavy water-meadow fogs oppressed me even more than 

 those of London, from which I had retreated on the 

 score of health. To-day, the I4th, Dr. Hempsted went 

 from me to his other patient, the Earl of Portsmouth, 

 for whom he had no hope, and who died this day at 

 one o'clock. Peace to his soul ! " 



Twenty-four days later the Colonel's summons came, 

 and the sufferings so bravely endured were at an end. 

 He died on August 7th, in the sixty-seventh year of his 

 age. Colonel Hawker was twice married : first in 1811 

 at Lisbon to Julia, daughter of Mr. Hooker Bartellot, by 

 whom he had a son Peter William Lanoe, who, like his 

 father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, entered the 

 army and rose to the rank of colonel. He also had some 

 of his father's sporting tastes, and edited the tenth and 

 eleventh editions of the " Instructions to Young Sports- 



