[133] Autobiography, vol. ii. p. 40.
[134] See end of [Chapter XIII].
[135] The watermarks of 1803 and 1804 on the paper are the sole authority for this date.
[137] Miss Hill seems to have identified also the cottage, 'Mrs. Dean's house,' in which the Austens themselves lodged in 1804. No doubt decanters, and everything else, have long been perfectly immaculate.
[138] Nearly all Memoir, p. 68; the remainder unpublished.
[140] Sailor Brothers, p. 127.
[141] Mr. Oscar Fay Adams, a most careful investigator, failed to discover the inscription in Walcot Church to the memory of George Austen. It is in the crypt below the church, and runs as follows: 'Under this stone rest the remains of the Rev. George Austen, Rector of Steventon and Dean in Hampshire, who departed this life the 21st of January 1805, aged 73 years.'
[142] Sailor Brothers, p. 125.