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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    Himself gives an express Testimony of the Time ii which he flourished. §. xvii. Which, however, is pass’d over by one, who endeavour'd to settle his Age from Proofs extracted from his Chronicle. §.x¥ 111, Our Author rightly observes the vast disproportion that there was between the pious Acts of K. Edward the Confessor, and the first K. Edward after: the. Conquest.. Interpolations are to be look’d. upon as. §. xix. Mr..Thomas Britton, the famous Small- Coal Man, seems to have had a MS. of Robert of Gloucester. The learned Mr. Thomas Allen had two MSS’, of him, one of which came to the Bod- leian Library, the other to some unknown Hands. §. xx. Mr. Selden and Mr. Wood had a right notion of the Age of our Author, who ought to be reckon’ d among the Oxford Writers. §. xxi. Our Author seems to have resided in. Oxford in an old House on the West side of Stockwell Street. §.Xx11. Lhe strange mistake of Mr. Weever, with regard to the Age of Robert of Gloucester. §; xx11i. Ro-’ bert of Brunne’s true Sirname was Manning. But the true Sirname of Robert of Gloucester does not occur. §. xxiv.. The Name of Robert Moille in- serted at random, as it seems, in the MS. of the Heralds Office. That MS. concludes with some Verses that are not in Caxton. §, xxv. This Work is a great Curiosity. The Reproach in neg= lecting the black Letter. §. XXVI. | ig
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