Letter 2402

Hearne sends three copies ‘of [his] Collection of curious Discourses’. He requests that Sloane make the first payment. If Sloane wants a fourth copy he will need to pay for ‘A Collection of curious Discourses, written by eminent Antquaries upon several Heads in out English Antiquities, and now first published by Thomas Hearne, M.A.’ immediately. A printed advertisement is included with the letter. 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]).