Incessant work had overtaxed the young man's strength, and reluctantly he left London in the year Of the Queen's accession, in order to commence business on his own account as a printer and bookbinder at Market Rasen, in his native county, where he remained seven years, and then removed to Henley — in-arden. On November loth, 1844, John Hannett commenced business as a printer, bookbinder, general stationer, and postmaster, in the High Street of the quiet Old Warwickshire town, and after twenty-five years of ceaseless industry retired on a Comfortable fortune to end his days in a picturesque old house in Henley Street.