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218 in earlier times as The Hole in the Wall. Here Hearne met many young gentlemen of Christ Church, and other honest antiquaries to chat over pot and pipe." "Honest," in Hearne's vocabulary, had a political rather than a moral signification; and an "Honest man," as Hearne knew him, might be any sort of a man who was, like Hearne, a Jacobite.

In 1723 Hearne wrote in his Journal: "It hath been an old custom in Oxford for the Scholars of all houses to go to dinner on Shrove Tuesday at ten o'clock, and to supper at four in the afternoon; and it was always followed in Edmund Hall, as long as I have been in Oxford, till yesterday, when they went to dinner at twelve, and to supper at six, nor were there any fritters at dinner, as there used always to be. When laudable old customs alter, 'tis a sign that learning dwindles," he added.

Hearne followed the old, old custom of dying, some twelve years later; and he was carried to the Church of St. Peter's-in-the-East, near St. Edmund Hall, where still he rests.