Letter 2933

Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – June 10, 1723


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Date: June 10, 1723
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 3-4



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[fol. 3] Honoured Sir, On the 8th inst. Godfrey paid me 4 Guineas, wch I suppose might come from you; but having had no intimation abt. the person that sent it, I am doubtfull. I am, Sir, Your most obt. humble servant Tho. Hearne. Edm. Hall Oxon. 10th. 1723.

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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