LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND.
1811.
DATES
OF SOME OCCURRENCES
IN THE
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
The following Particulars, in the Author’s own hand-writing, and endorsed by him—“Some Occurrences in my Life. R. W.”—were found amongst his papers after his decease.
DATES
Of some Occurrences in my own Life.
A. D.
1719-20
Richard Hurd was born at Congreve, in the Parish of Penkrich, in the County of Stafford, January 13, 1719-20.
He was the second of three children, all sons, of John and Hannah Hurd; plain, honest, and good people; of whom he can truly say with the poet—
Si natura juberet, &c.