Letter 2445

Hearne sends ‘five Copies of Rob. of Avesbury in small paper’. He informs Sloane of what he still owes for the books. The advertisement for the book is included. It is called ‘Roberti Avesbury Historia de Mirablilibus gestis Edvardi tertii’. 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]).