Copy 1, Volume 1

The works of Thomas Hearne, M.A / [Thomas Hearne].

  • Thomas Hearne
Date:
1810
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Credit: The works of Thomas Hearne, M.A / [Thomas Hearne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Riythms, answers the Custom of the Pythagoreans and old Britains. §.1x. He hath continued too long hid from the World. The value of the Harley- an MS) which ts followed*in the I: Edition, that we now set forth. The Language, as well as the Work, altered in the MS. of the Heralds Office, and that by one who lived in the time of Hen. VI. °§. x. Who, however, is pleased to conceal his Name, as he does also that of Robert of Gloucester. A Rhythmical Ac- count of the Kings of England at the end of his MS. which is here likewise printed. §.x1. But: these Rhythons are much shorter than those of Robert of Gloucester, as are likewise those in this MS. that relate to K. Richard ¥. §:x11. The Author of which Rhythms about Richard 1. seems to have been Robert of Brunne, §. x111. This Robert of Brunne the same with Stowe’s Robert Brune. Stowe was certainly the Author of the Fragments, that I have printed in Heming. Stowe’s Honesty, and the value of his Chronicle A very remarkable Passage out of Ro= bert of Brunne’s Chronicle, together with the same as it occurrs in Stotve. §. xiv. Instead of the anony- serted the genuine ones of Robert of Gloucester, in a Continuation of the Harleyan MS. from the Cotto- nian Library. §.xv. The Harleyan MS. perfect, tho’ it comes ‘nothing near so low as that of the Cot- tonian Library; One Leaf, at least, is wanting in the Cottonian MS. §. xvi. Our Author seems tohave dyed in the Beginning of Edw. the First’s Reign, aad. Hime
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