Letter 2023

Hearne keeps Sloane up to date on his publishing of Leland’s ‘Collectanea’. He discusses Mr Terry’s attempt to destroy a will he wrote nineteen years before. The executor was to be William Brand of Hertfordshire. Hearne assures Sloane that he will retrieve the books lent to Mr Terry and return them. Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678, d. 1735) was an antiquary and diarist. He began working at the Bodleian Library in 1701. A nonjuror, his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to King George I led to his dismissal from the Bodleian in 1716. Hearne published the works of several English chroniclers (Theodor Harmsen, Hearne, Thomas (bap. 1678, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12827, accessed 2 June 2011]).