Reginald L. Hine, FSA-FRHistS: An Uncommon Attorney

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  Titled, Reginald L. Hine, FSA-FRHistS: An Uncommon Attorney. Scrapbook probably compiled by W. Hugh Peal. Includes clippings on Hine and his book about Charles Lamb, manuscript notes, prints, and a signed typescript letter.
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writer or a painter, was born before or

after his time and that his work suffered
in consequence, so what a relief it is for once in
a while to ﬁnd a man who was not only born
at the right time but in the right place, too.

Reginald Hine was born at Baldock, nine
miles from Hitchin, in 1883. That is to say, he
was seventeen at the turn of the century when his
young observant eyes ﬁrst began to absorb the
peculiarities and the well—ordered, sturdy life of
the old country town and Royal Manor of
Hitchin—a place as typically English as the
foaming beer its Quakers had brewed for cen-
turies, and the sweet-scented lavender which
came drifting over the town on hot July days
from thesurrounding ﬁelds, where it was cultivated
like wheatwbroad ﬁelds of blue, alas, no more.

During the ﬁrst twenty years of the new century
Hitchin remained much the same as it had been
during the preceding two hundred years, and
Reginald Hine was able to steep himself in its
old—world Quaker atmosphere. Then after the
ﬁrst World War he saw it gradually transform
itself into the mixture of old and. new which it is
to-day. The old Quaker families gradually died
out, the Queen Anne houses where they had lived
for generations changed hands and were divided
up into flats, modern stores took the place
of the old-fashioned, gossipy shops, the
old family banks were bought up, and the
Quakers no longer brewed the local beer.

However, right up to the beginning of
the second World War and even later
members of the old Quaker families
lingered on in Hitchin—sons and daughters
of old townsfolk who had travelled up to
London, not on the “ new” railway, but _
by Kershaw‘s coach, which would take
an outside passenger up to the metropolis and
back for the cheap rate of 25. 6d.

Reginald Hine listened to their talk as he sat
with them on their sunny verandas or walked
with them in their walled-in gardens, about
Hitchin and its characters—“worthies," as he
likes to call them. Amassing all this knowledge
about the past, he became the town’s unofﬁcial
local historian. All his books have Hitchin, at
least Hertfordshire, for their background, except

a vivacious account of John Bunyan’s iron
violin. But then Bunyan was almost a Quaker
and he lived only just ovsr the “border” in
Bedfordshire. -

QNE is always hearing that so—and-so, a

INE‘S death last year at the age ofsixty-seven,
H with so much of his knowledgestill locked
away in his versatile brain, was a great loss.
for, as Mildred Bozman tells us in her foreword

to. Hine’s Relics of (m Un-common Attorney
(Dent, 185.), he was settling down to write a
history of Hertfordshire which would have set
the seal on his career of “Chronicler of the
Parish ” and local historian.

A solicitor’s ofﬁce, stacked from basement to
attic with family records and with its tentacles
spreading through the town, makes an admirable
Centre. for absorbing masses of local information.
From this vantage point Hine came to know the
history and antecedents of every old family in
Hitchin, and half the residents by sight. And
added to these advantages he also had a genius
for discovering old records, account books and
yellowing diaries on his book-collecting jaunts,
and it is these which give the necessary authori-
tarian ring to his writings, but never obscure their
human side.

Not a Quaker himself either by birth or re-
ligion, he always showed great sympathy for these

5 magnanimous, long-suffering and upright people.

'bottomed boats from Boulogne.

By REGINALD COLBY _

In his chapter, “ Quakerism in Hertfordshire,” he
has some very ﬁne words to say about local
Quakers and helps to repay a little of the debt
which Hitchin and other Hertfordshire towns owe
to the Society of Friends:

At Hitchin we are wont to say that the whole town,
in the eighteenth century, was brought tip in the
leading strings of the Quakers. When the natural
fathers of the parish, the wardens, the overseers, the
surveyors of the highways forsook their duties, then

Reginald Hine at work. ‘Listening to the talk of Hitchin's “ worthies ”

impelled him to become the town’s unoﬁicial historian.

the Quakers would take it up. All the forlorn hopes,
the unpleasant jobs, the worst parts of the road, the
cleaning out of the river, the disinfecting of the pest-
house, were handed over to them.

The Quakers of Hitchin would be the last to
deny that they owed their prosperity to the town,
by banking, brewing and farming, but, as Mr.
Hine points out, they never shirked their
responsibilities'to the community.

, HERE was one occasion, however, when
their duty to the community and the duty
to their consciences posed a problem which these
infleitible paciﬁsts found very difﬁcult to solve.
It was at the time of the Napoleonic wars, when
England—as in l940——was girding herself to repel
invasion. . . ,

Hitchin was a model in enrolling volunteers
and turning a resolute face to the foe which was
ready at any moment to unleash his fleet of flat-
The leading
spirit in the town’s warlike preparations was
Colonel Wilshere, who, after a mass meeting in
the parish church of St. Mary’s, took over the
task of drilling and equipping the volunteers, who
engaged themselves not only to defend their own
hearths and homes, but “ to march to any part of
Britain for the Defence thereof in case of Actual
Invasion ” :

The local alarm post was in the Sun yard. But the
county alarm post was at Hatﬁeld, and, on any
emergency arising, it was to that town the Hitchin
Volunteers were to be conveyed with all speed in
sixteen wagons ﬁtted out with seats and three covered
carts for their baggage. By the next market day
after Wilshere’s appeal, and in spite of the harvest,
those wagons and carts were forthcoming, and were
painted “ H.V.” in unmistakable characters.

The alacrity of the local response made White—
hall seem very dilatory, for when the War Ofﬁce
was asked to supply equipment the ofﬁcial reply

came back that“ the demand was unprecedented.”
The gallant Colonel decided to appeal to the town
again and in his extremity he even turned to the
Quakers, who, true to their peaceful ideals, had
refused absolutely to contribute in money or
in kind at the time of the 1745 Rebellion, and
had had their windows smashed for not lighting
them up with candles on "Rejoicing Nights.”
But the Colonel did not despair, and, appealing
to their local patriotism, which he hoped would
transcend their rigid rules against support of
war in any form, he addressed the following
very diplomatic message to them :

The Society of Friends called Quakers of Hitchin
is requested to subscribe in such manner as they
shall think proper to the relief and assistance of the
poOrer inhabitants of the parish likely to be engaged
in defence of their country, by providing them with
Great Coats, ﬂannel waistcoats, gloves and shoes.
How this appeal fared we do not know, un-
fortunately. It seems that even the memory
of the oldest inhabitant did not reach back so far.

LIKE the chapters in this book dealing with

accounts, and share Reginald Hine‘s curi-
osity in the way other people spend their money.
There was a certain Daniel Coulson, a master
tailor of the Royal Manor of Hitchin, whose
accounts for the year. 1757 have been
preserved by one of his descendants. ’ Some
of the prices he paid would make a house-
wife of to-day green with envy :

Feb 15 1767 I had a new pair of shoes
of Mr. Goodman. I paid 5:6 for them.

Sept 27 I bought 2 ducks. Paid 2/6 for
them. Paid zld for a pint of milk.

But it is only fair for a just comparison
to give this Hitchin tailor’s wages, which
would bring a smile of pitying condescen-
sion to any member of his trade to-day. For
instance, on March 2nd tailor Daniel “worked
one hole night and half a mother making mourn-
ing at William Crawley’s of Whitwell.” And all
he received was “ 5d and 3d ” for his pains.

‘I like the way in which, instead of using the
word “ spent,” our Hitchin tailor sometimes
writes “ wasted.” For instance, on January 5th he
entered with a rueful heart 3. “ I wasted 1d for
brandy and 7d for beer and snuff.”

Extracts from another account book .s< Public
HOus Scors” kept by William Lowden, whose
family ran the Angel Vaults at Hitchin for
four generations, make one‘s mouth water for
the dishes of yesteryear, and give a picture of
a most hospitable landlord. The date of'the old
account book is 1819-1825.

’ Luncheon, with its standing dish of “ Round
Ribs,” cost as little as Is. Dinner was Is. 6d. and
breakfast as low as 6d.. We can see, too, from this

'account book how solicitous William Lowden

was for the welfare of his guests:

Dip again into the “Scors Book” and you will
observe Lowden—his own manager—supervising
every detail intent on honouring the tastes and
idiosyncrasies of each particular guest. Himself
moro‘se and unhappy, he studied to please others.

We know, too, what this admirable innkeeper
looked like, as the Quaker Samuel Lucas (1805-
1870), the painter "of so many Hitchin types (six
of his line drawings illustrate this book), drew
him—a shock—headed, hirsute character, all
whiskers and beard.

Relics ofan Un~c0mmon A Horney can be dipped
into at random or read through from cover to
cover'; the book is a delight, for wherever
we open it its author gives us a vivid and com~
forting picture of that red—blooded,. sturdy,
provincial England which still remains our
country’s great strength to-day. »

 

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Tel: Letchworili 552.

83rd April 1945,,
Dear Mr. Bramley,
1. It was good natured of you to write to me about my
book, and I wish more of the hundreds of letters that I get were
written on such excellent hand made paper and in such a clear

distinguished hani. I ought to come to you for a lesson in writing.

2a I am much interested in your reminiscences of
deer Wilfrid, Alice and Everani Meynell, and I accept, with
pleasure the catalogue of the sellingﬂ ﬁmwor Mr.

3. The Serendipity shop. That brings back many happy
memories of 1915 ani 1915 when I hauntei that particular shop.

too for the metrical will of Sir
Willoughby Dixie, and it is . from another metrical will sent
to me yesteniay that I shall have to put a footnote in my second
edition. Yours is the best of the three undoubtedly, and seems to
have passed a very huge estate. I hope you will kindly allow me
to keep this copy.

5. Be a kind man and recommend my book amongst your
reading acquaintances, and tell any interested people that there is
a second edition on the way, due, I hope, about June. Meantime,
there are copies available in many leading lbraries.

Yours gratefully,

ﬁzm4{’( 4 I /AM

 

iHE historian of Hitchin, l

. Harts, Mr. Reginald L.l
Hine, wrote in his book of l
Hitchin that if he were buried l
in the ruined chapel of Mins— l
l

Relics of an Uri-common Attorney.
By Reginald L. Hine, (Dent. 183.)

r ‘HE title of this book is a sad

intimation that the author has
gone where he may converse pcr-
sonully with the long-departed folk
whom his researches in thc scvcn~
tccnth and eighteenth centuries have
brought so vividly to life. His
“ Rclics“ have the some high quality
that made Mr. Hines “Confessions”
deservedly popular. Through the
misty autumnal sunlight which seems
to pervade the whole story and to
make its characters the more real, we
watch a Hcrtfordshire squire building
his great house. and founding a new
dynasty; the ﬁerce aus‘icritics of the
early Quakers (the Kensititcs of those

KILLED BY TRAIN

Mr. Reginald L. Hinc, 64, of Willianbury,
near Hitchin, Hcrtfordshirc, was killed when
he fell in from of a train at Hitchin railway
station on Thursday. He was the author of
the “ History of l-Iilchin ” 21nd “Hilchin
Worthics.” and also wrote “Confessions of
un Ui‘icommon Attorney.” Hc was a partner
Im the l-lllchm firm of Messrs. l-lurilcy and Hinc.
solicnors. He lcuvcs a widow and chic married
daughter.

    

 

den, standing in- a ﬁeld near
tvh e t o w n, h e w o u 1d
“endeavour in all ghostly
ways to protect and haunt its
hallowed walls.” .
He claimed to have leased the!
chapel, and years ago directed thaté
his body or his ashes should be:
laid to rest there.

Last week, at the age of 65, Mr.
Hine threw himself in front of a. '
train at Hitchin Station, and at
the inquqest. yesterday the verdict
was: “Suicide while the balance
of his mind was disturbed.”

HINE.—-On April 14, 194‘). suddenly, at Hiiclnn.
REGINALD LESLIE H ' 5A.. F.R.Hisx.S.. third son
of the late chillc l. L. of Ncwnhsm. Baldock, and]
beloved husband 0 Fl cncc l.cc Hinc. oi \Villianburyn
W'illiun, Lctchworih. in his both your. Memorial sorvicc
at St. Mary‘s Church, Hirehin, at 12 noon on Tuesday ,

April 1"). following cremation. < .

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‘Take warning ’

Last night Mr. Reginald Hartley!
of Stevenagc, Mr. Hines partner:
lin a ﬁrm of solicitors, told the
‘Sunday Express: “Mr. Hine will’
be cremated at Golders Green on,
Thesday, and a. memorial service‘
will be held later in the day at St.
Mary’s Parish Church, Hitchin."

Mr. Hine deeply loved Minsden,
which in 1927 had its fallen trees,
removed and its loftmhigh under-l
growth then completely obscuring.
the ruins, cleared away.

In the second volume of his
" History of Hit-chin." he “note in
1926: “I have these many years
past leased it- from the ricars of
Hitchin. Let trespasscrs and
sacrilcgious persons take warning,

Regmald H 726 A

Relics of

days)’ and how lovely Mary Ransom
triumphed over the Lust of the Flesh
as expressed in gold buttons and the
ability to wear even the Quakcrcss
bonnct fetchinglv; and the amazing
story of Nehemiah Pcrry. who. having
earned public gratitude by shooting a
ginsv. exhibited the body at 3d. a peep.

‘till it reached a state at which it had
‘to be sent to the Cambridge CllS-

sccting rooms. All this and much

' more Mr. Hine’s imagination has re—
Icreatcd chieﬂy from old account
lbooks and the grafﬁti (the rough in—
: scriptions carved in churchcsl of which

he collected (SOD-rubbings. The whole
book has irresistible charm;

One amid the many sidclights on
old England which specially appeals

in thcsc inﬂated days is the high value
‘of money. Thus. in l70l. “To Mrs.
Hamond for teaching of hanna to
lrcad for ﬁvc and forty weeks 83.”
'And think of planting an avenue of

for I will proceed against them 5
with the utmost rigour of the
law."

an Uni—common

‘ In its shade '

In his ”Confessions of an Un-
common Attorney.” written in 1943.;
Mr. Blue added: “In its deep‘
shade, many who have beenl
brought low by the cares of this
world. or. in my case. by the wear
and tear of my profession. have
found healing . . . consolation and
repose.

If ever the silent messenger
lDeathl could appear amiable and
lovely, it would be in such a place1
as this." .
The ruins were originally thcl
Church of St. Nicholas; and Mini1
Elliott O'Donnell. the ghost huntem
has said he felt “extraordinarily
uncanny there .

 

Attorney

The last work of a lawyer and historian
who wore his deep learning with sciniil-
lating wit and warm humanity.
Illustrated. 18.x: net

Successor to his famous

CONFESSIONS OF AN
UN-COMMON ATTORNEY

 

of forget-me-not.
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172 limes at a cost of only ls. 3d.
apiece, Nowadays a market gardener
will unblushingly ask 6d. for one root
0. M. GREEN.