Letter 2374

Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – February 4, 1719/20


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Date: February 4, 1719/20
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 290-291



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Hearne acknowledges that he received Sloane’s payment for the copies of ‘Thomae Sprotti Chronica’ and ‘the Collection of Antiquaries’, which are to be printed soon. 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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