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parchment-covered Wainscot Book, which the librarian 

 ferreted out of the old oak chest in the Cathedral and 

 brought over to my residence a short time ago. The 

 interest which the book has given me is great. And it 

 occurred to me that others, beside myself, when on a 

 visit to Winchester, might desire perhaps to share the 

 pleasure of gazing on the prebendal residences of such 

 interesting personalities as Dr Hawkins and Dr Nicholas, 

 as Mr Anthony Alsop and Prebendary Pyle, as " old 

 Sykes " and Archdeacon Balguy, as John Mulso and 

 Dr Wart on. At any rate, many will be found to view 

 with unaffected interest and delight the house in Dome 

 Alley in which the grand old man, beloved alike in 

 England and America, "the prince of fishermen " and 

 " the prince of biographers," spent the last years of his 

 long and honoured life, and in which, at length, doubt- 

 less in one of the panelled chambers, he breathed his 

 last on that bitter December day, shortly before 

 Christmas, in the year 1683. 



