Letter 2545

Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – January 22, 1721/22


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Date: January 22, 1721/22
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 189-190



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[fol. 189] Honed. Sir, Just now I recd. your MS. with Museum Britannicum Historiale. I thank you for the Loan of it. I will take great care of it, & am, Honed Sir, Your most obl. humble servt Tho. Hearne. Edm Hall Oxon. Jan 22. 1721[/22].

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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