Background
Hearne was born in July 1678 in White Waltham, England, the son of George Hearn, the parish clerk.
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Benedictus, abbas Petroburgensis, de vita & gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I. ... nunc primus edidit Thomas Hearnius. ... Duobus tomis. Volume 1 of 2 (Latin Edition)
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T021523 With a final advertisement leaf. An advertisement for this work was issued by Tho. Hearne: 'Advertisement. Just printed in two volumes in 8vo ..', 1735. Oxonii : e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1735. 2v.(LXXI,1,873,3p.) ; 8°
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Joannis de Fordun Scotichronicon: cum supplementis et continuatione Walteri Boweri ... E codicibus mss. editum. cum notis et variantibus lectionibus. ... Scotorum introductio brevis (Latin Edition)
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John Leland's Itinerary: Travels in Tudor England
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Translates into modern English and compresses into a single volume the historical and topographical aspects of John Leland's accounts of his travels through England and Wales in the 1540s. Written at a time of great change for England, the volume draws a picture of the growth of English nationalism and the transition to Tudor city plans. The material presented here has been rearranged to reflect the county organization of the lands Leland traveled. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Benedictus, abbas Petroburgensis, de vita & gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I. ... nunc primus edidit Thomas Hearnius. ... Duobus tomis. Volume 2 of 2 (Latin Edition)
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T021523 With a final advertisement leaf. An advertisement for this work was issued by Tho. Hearne: 'Advertisement. Just printed in two volumes in 8vo ..', 1735. Oxonii : e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1735. 2v.(LXXI,1,873,3p.) ; 8°
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Thomas Hearne
Edit ProfileEducation
Having received his early education from his father, Hearne showed such taste for study that a wealthy neighbour, Francis Cherry of Shottesbrooke (c. 1665-1713), a celebrated nonjuror, interested himself in the boy, and sent him to the school at Bray on purpose to learn Latin. Soon Cherry took him into his own house, and his education was continued at Bray until Easter 1696, when he matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Career
At the university Hearne attracted the attention of Dr John Mill (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 Bodleian Library, where he worked on the catalogue of books, and in 1712 he was appointed second keeper. In 1715 Hearne was elected architypographus and esquire bedell 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. A nonjuror himself, he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to King George I, and early in 1716 he was deprived of his librarianship. 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 Camden professorship of ancient history, rather than take the oaths. He died on 10 June 1735. Hearne's most important work was done as editor of many of the English chroniclers, and until the appearance of the Rolls Series his editions were in many cases the only ones extant. Very carefully prepared, they were, and indeed are still, of the greatest value to historical students. Perhaps the most important of a long list are: Benedict of Peterborough's (Benedictus Abbas) De vita et gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I. (1735), John of Fordun's Scotichronicon (1722), the monk of Evesham's Historia vitae et regni Ricardi II (1729), Robert Mannyng's translation of Piers Langtoft's Chronicle (1725), the work of Thomas Otterbourne and John Whethamstede as Duo rerum Anglicarum scriptores veteres (1732), Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle (1724). Hearne left his manuscripts to William Bedford, who sold them to Dr Richard Rawlinson, who in his turn bequeathed them to the Bodleian. Two volumes of extracts from his voluminous diary were published by Philip Bliss (Oxford, 1857), and afterwards an enlarged edition in three volumes appeared (London, 1869). A large part of his diary entitled Remarks and Collections, 1705-1714, edited by C. E. Doble and D. W. Rannie, has been published by the Oxford Historical Society (1885-1898). Bibliotheca Hearniana, excerpts from the catalogue of Hearn's library, has been edited by Beriah Botfield (1848).
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John Leland's Itinerary: Travels in Tudor England
(Translates into modern English and compresses into a sing...)
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Benedictus, abbas Petroburgensis, de vita & gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I. ... nunc primus edidit Thomas Hearnius. ... Duobus tomis. Volume 1 of 2 (Latin Edition)
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
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Benedictus, abbas Petroburgensis, de vita & gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I. ... nunc primus edidit Thomas Hearnius. ... Duobus tomis. Volume 2 of 2 (Latin Edition)
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
- Joannis de Fordun Scotichronicon: cum supplementis et continuatione Walteri Boweri ... E codicibus mss. editum. cum notis et variantibus lectionibus. ... Scotorum introductio brevis (Latin Edition)
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John Leland's Itinerary: Travels in Tudor England
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