Letter 3421

Hearne sends three copies of Thomas Elmham’s latest book. An advertisement for the work is included. It is called ‘Thomae de Elmham Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti, Anglorum Regis. E Codicibus MSS. vetustis descripsit, & primus luci dedit.’ Also, ‘The Black Book of the Exchequer’ is to be published. 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]).