Letter 2050

Hearne sends 3 copies of ‘the Acts, and 12s. for the 1st. Payment of Rowse’. He and John Rowse thank Sloane for sending the curiosities. Mr Brome offers ‘his humble service and most hearty thanks for your great Civilities to him’. 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]).