Letter 2350

Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – September 15, 1719


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Date: September 15, 1719
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 240-241



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Hearne sends ‘three copies small Paper’ of a work titled ‘Guilielmi Neubrigensis Historia’. He asks that Sloane pay for them. The 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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