THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, December 28, 1889. 



A MEAN AND SELFISH BISHOP. 



Mr. F. E. Gretton has recently published his 

 " Memory's Harkback through Half a Century 1808- 

 1858," and a very readable book it appears to be. 

 " Episcopal Recollections" have a chapter to them- 

 selves. On the whole they are pleasing, and the 

 narrator is certainly kindly. Even Dr. Hampden of 

 Hereford, one of the most unlucky appointments that 

 was ever made, has apologies made for him. But 

 one, Pretyman-Tomline, of Lincoln and Winchester, 

 is beyond the line of the most comprehensive charity. 

 He had been tutor to Pitt, who gave him all that 

 he had. Pitt was attended by him on his 

 death-bed. Near the end he said : " I am 

 too poor to leave you money ; but you 

 will value the old silver inkstand we 

 have so often used together." Some time after, the 

 Duke of Cumberland saw the inkstand in Rundell 

 and Bridges' window. The Bishop had exchanged it 

 tor one of a more modern shape ! After this one 

 enjoys the more the story of his discomfiture. Bishop 

 Barrington ot Durham was very ill, and Tomline, 

 who was looking out for his see, was diligent in his 

 inquiries. One day the answer to the Bishop's man 

 was, " Give my kind regards and thanks to your 

 master, and tell him that he will be glad to know that 

 I am much better indeed almost well, but that the 

 Bishop of Winchester has a nasty cough, if that 

 will do." 



AN EARLY HAMPSHIRE DIRECTORY. 



I send you the transcript of the title page, with 

 collation, of an interesting directory of the county of 

 Hants of 100 years ago, which has been for some years 

 in my possession. As each of the sections, besides 

 bearing the usual signature, is marked ' ' No. 7," I sup- 

 pose the first issue was for the year 1783. [If this 

 supposition be correct, the present work probably 

 suggested to Mr. John Sadler, of the High-street, 

 Winchester, the publication by subscription, in 1784, 

 of the first known Hampshire directory, a duodecimo 

 of nearly 200 pages, a copy of which is in the 

 possession of Mr. Henry Johnson of Winchester. 

 See Baigent and Millard's " History of Basingstoke," 

 just published, p. 555.] Do any of your readers 

 know of the existence of an earlier copy than 

 mine ? The particulars of each town are not very 

 lull, Southampton occupying three pages, enumerat- 

 ing the members of the Town Council, the principal 

 professional men and traders, inns, schools, charities, 

 vessels trading to and from the port, &c. If of 

 sufficient interest I will transcribe this portion for 

 your columns. 



Plymouth. J. S. ATTWOOD. 



THE 



Hampshire Pocket Companion : 

 Or, COMPLETE LEDGER for Cash and Time, 



For the Year of our LORD 1790, 



Being the Second after BISSEXTILE, OR LEAP YEAR : 



Particularly calculated for NATIVES, STRANGERS, DEALERS, 



and TRAVELLERS in that extensive County ; 



CONTAINING 



Officers in the Militia, Ports- 

 mouth Dock, Victualling 

 Office, Haslar Hospital, 

 Customs, Excise, &c. in 

 Hampshire. 



104 Pages neatly ruled. 

 Abstracts of all the Public 



Acts of last Sessions 



Courts of Law. 

 Lunar and Tide Tables. 



Term Table, <S* useful Memo- 



rands. 



His Majesty's Mail Coaches. 

 Game Duty in Hampshire. 

 Bankers in London cS' Hamp- 



shire. 

 List of Peers, &c. in Hamp- 



shire. 

 Members of Parliament, and 



Justices of Peace for 



Hampshire. 

 Ecclesiastical Livings <5 



Protestant Dissenting 



Churches in Hampsh. 



Capital Merchants, &c. Schools, Charities, and other Par 

 ticulars in the City of Winchester and following Towns : 



and 



Mayors, Aldermen, &c. in 

 the respective Corpora- 

 tions in Hants. 



Public Offices in the County, 

 and Agents for the Stamp 

 and Assurance Offices. 



Holidays and Remarkable 

 Da3's. 



Accounts of the different 

 Posts; also of the Fairs, 

 Stages, Waggons, &c. in 

 Hampshire. 



Together with a particular State of the Government of 



The Islands of WIGHT, JERSEY, and GUERNSEY. 



And many other interesting Matters particularized in 



The CONTENTS. 



SOUTHAMPTON: 



Printed by and for A. CUNNINGHAM, opposite the Market- 

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 Southampton ; N. COLLINGTON, Alresford ; J. WATTS 

 and WM. HARDING, Gosport; J. BREADHOWER, and J. 

 MOTLEY, Portsmouth ; J. HARDING, Portsmouth 

 Common; WM. MAUD, Andover; J. CHAMBERS, 

 Basingstoke ; W. ROE, Alton ; R. JONES, Lvmington ; 

 J. S. HOLLIS, Romsey; PH. JENKINS, Christchurch; 

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[Continued annually, with Improvements.'] 

 i6mo. pp. i-ix, including title and list of Fairs, un- 

 numbered, 10-115 consisting of the ruled pages, un- 

 numberel, and 116-192, the last unnumbered, being the 

 Contents. 



[This book is not mentioned in Mr. H. M. Gilbert's 

 " Bibliotheca Hantoniensis." Ed. L. N. and Q.] 



WEATHER REPORT FOR THE WEEK. 



From the meterological register made at the Ordnance 

 Survey Office, Southampton, under the direction of Col. Sir 

 Chas. Wilson, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., R.E. Lat. 50 



