Letter 2371

Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – January 19, 1719/20


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Date: January 19, 1719/20
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 284-285



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Hearne informs Sloane that he owes ‘sixteen shillings’ for the ‘four Copies in small Paper’ of ‘Thomae Sprotti Chronica’. The printed advertisement for the book is included. 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]).




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