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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – August 19, 1715
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Date: August 19, 1715
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 86-87
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Dr Zanichelli has sent two copies of a treatise to Woodward. He would like one copy placed in the Royal Society’s library if it is wanting.
Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, Woodward, John (1665/16681728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – July 14, 1715
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Date: July 14, 1715
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 82-83
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Hearne is glad Sloane received the book. The bearer, Mr Breme of Hertfordshire, is to speak with Sloane about Mr Terry’s will. For more on the situation, see: Sloane MS 4044, fols. 61-62.
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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Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – July 12, 1715
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Date: July 12, 1715
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 77
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Thoresby asks whether Sloane received his last letter, wherein he requested information on the number of births and burials in Hardwood Parish. He wants to purchase recent issues of the Philosophical Transactions ‘at the easyest rates’.
Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 3 June 2011]).
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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – July 5, 1715
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Date: July 5, 1715
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 71-72
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Hearne informs Sloane that thirteen sets of Leland’s ‘Coll.’ are being delivered to Oxford Street.
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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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – July 3, 1715
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Date: July 3, 1715
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 69-70
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Sir Robert Harrison has paid Hearne for the book to which he had subscribed. Hearne notes that other books are ‘in the Press’.
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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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – June 28, 1715
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Date: June 28, 1715
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 61-62
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Hearne discusses scholarship and the publishing industry in detail. He includes a bill outlining the costs of his work. Mr Bremeway has had to deal with Mr Terry’s affairs, which has caused problems.
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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Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – May 23, 1715
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Date: May 23, 1715
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 48
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Thoresby has written the abstract for his article about Leeds, which is to be published in the Philosophical Transactions.
Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 3 June 2011]).
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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – May 12, 1715
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Date: May 12, 1715
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 43-44
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Hearne keeps Sloane up to date on his publishing of Leland’s ‘Collectanea’. He discusses Mr Terry’s attempt to destroy a will he wrote nineteen years before. The executor was to be William Brand of Hertfordshire. Hearne assures Sloane that he will retrieve the books lent to Mr Terry and return them.
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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James Keill to Hans Sloane – April 29, 1715
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Date: April 29, 1715
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 39-40
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Keill did not formally attend medical school, but through the patronage of Sloane he obtained the degree of MD from Cambridge. Sloane helped Keill enter into medical practice in Northampton (Anita Guerrini, Keill, James (16731719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15255, accessed 2 June 2011]).
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Brook Taylor to Hans Sloane – April 11, 1715
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Date: April 11, 1715
Author: Brook Taylor
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 29
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Taylor can send Sloane’s packages to Paris if he wishes.
Brook Taylor (1685-1731) was a mathematician. He published mathematical monographs as well as articles in the Philosophical Transactions. Taylor was greatly involved in the Royal Society and debates surrounding Newtonian mechanics and calculus (Lenore Feigenbaum, ‘Taylor, Brook (1685–1731)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27019, accessed 16 July 2014]).