Letter 1895

Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – April 3, 1713


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Date: April 3, 1713
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 139-140



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Hearne sends two copies of ‘Dodwells Discourse’. The first is 6 shillings and the second is 4 shillings. Hearne still has 50 copies to dispose of if Sloane would like more. 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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