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Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)

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637: 33: 186:, and early in 1716 he was deprived of his librarianship, and "he was, in fact, locked out of the library". However, he continued to reside in Oxford, and occupied himself in editing the English chroniclers. Hearne refused several important academic positions, including the librarianship of the Bodleian and the 201:, London. In November 1715, indicating the devotion of Hearne's readers, he reminded Dr Levett that "you formerly desired to be a subscriber for every Thing I published. I have accordingly put you down for one copy of Acts of the Ap. in Capitals". 555:
Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Thomas Hearne, David Watson Rannie, Charles Edward Doble, Herbert Edward Salter, Printed for the Oxford Historical Society at the Clarendon Press, 1901
167:(1645–1707), the principal of St Edmund Hall, who employed him to compare manuscripts and in other ways. Having taken the degree of B.A. in 1699 he was made assistant keeper of the 136:, Berkshire, the son of George Hearn, the parish clerk. Having received his early education from his father, he showed such taste for study that a wealthy neighbour, 175:
in civil law in the university, but objection having been made to his holding this office together with that of second librarian, he resigned it in the same year.
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tongue". Soon Cherry took him into his own house, and his education was continued at Bray until Easter 1696 when he matriculated at
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The readers of Hearne's works were devoted to them because of the depth of scholarship. He corresponded, for example, with Dr
776: 292:(1719); Hearne's title is now thought to be misleading about this work, of the end of the 14th century, too late to be by 447:, who in his turn bequeathed them to the Bodleian. Two volumes of extracts from his voluminous diary were published by 796: 213:, his editions were in some cases the only ones existent. Some have praised them for being well prepared and sourced. 380: 293: 137: 536:
Shugrue, M. (1966). "The "Urry Chaucer" (1721) and the London Uprising of 1384: A Phase in Chaucerian Biography".
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Hearne's most important work was done as editor of many of the English chronicles. Until the appearance of the
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to do so. This in turn led Hearne in his diary to insult Pope's lack of scholarship.
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Hearne's work in publishing these old manuscripts was not appreciated by all:
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Hearne left his manuscripts to William Bedford, who sold them to Dr
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Portrait of Hearne, taken from “The Life Of Anthony à Wood” by
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Impartial Memorials of the Life and Writings of Thomas Hearn
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Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
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A Collection of Curious Discourses by Eminent Antiquaries
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and which now goes under the designation Ps-Elmham (1727)
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himself, he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to
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Ductor historicus, a Short System of Universal History
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Hearne was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of
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At the university, he attracted the attention of Dr
197:, an early English physician and medical doctor at 91: 81: 73: 61: 46: 23: 478:dismisses them as unappealing and "monkish" in 484:and satirises Hearne as the pedant Wormius in 538:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 216:Among the most important of a long list are: 8: 572:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 226:De vita et gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I. 20: 523: 569:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 503: 274:Duo rerum Anglicarum scriptores veteres 188:Camden professorship of ancient history 296:the Benedictine chronicler (fl. 1292). 723:that covers the Hearne - Pope rivalry 717:Someone Dead Ruined My Life... Again. 7: 420:Among his other compilations were: 706:, privately printed (London, 1874) 353:(1710–1712) and the same author's 245:Historia vitae et regni Ricardi II 144:(c. 1665–1713), a celebrated 14: 787:Fellows of St Edmund Hall, Oxford 704:Letters addressed to Thomas Hearn 566:Ramsay, Nigel. 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Anthony Wood
White Waltham
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Latin
diarist
antiquary
White Waltham
Francis Cherry
Shottesbrooke
nonjuror
Bray
Latin
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
John Mill
Bodleian Library
Esquire Bedell
nonjuror
King George I
Camden professorship of ancient history
Henry Levett
Charterhouse
Rolls Series
Benedictus Abbas
John of Fordun
Scotichronicon
Robert Mannyng
Piers Langtoft
Thomas Otterbourne
John Whethamstede

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