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 THOMAS HASLEWOOD,

HISTORIAN,

Was a native of Kent, and a Canon of the Abbey of Leeds in the reign of Edward II. Fuller says "he was an excellent scholar and a fortunate schoolmaster to teach others." But "towards his old age," says another writer, "he took to reading and writing history, for which reason William Botoner afterwards gave him a place among his famous historians, and not undeservedly, for it appears he published many things, and chiefly that work which he entitles "A Compendious Chronicle." He died about 1321.

[See "Fuller's Worthies."]

EDWARD HASTED

HISTORIAN OF KENT,

To whom the County of Kent is so much indebted, was (as he himself tells us in the "Gentleman's Magazine," vol. 82), the son of Edward Hasted, of Hawley, barrister-at-law, and was descended on his father's side from the noble family of Clifford, and maternally from the Dingsleys of Woolverton, in the Isle of Wight. … In the latter part of his life he felt the pressure of adverse fortune, and dwelt some time in obscurity in the environs of London. A few years before his death he was presented by the Earl of Radnor to the Mastership of Corsham Hospital, in Wiltshire, where he died in 1812. "Mr. Hasted" (remarks the Editor of the "Gentleman's Magazine") "combined the classical attainments of a scholar, the refined and polished manners of a gentleman without affectation, and