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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    6.1. BSyseeet AT ‘cannot but be of : Ww ate branch of Learn- Nf ing, when such Per- | SCHVSS Bee sons, as are fam’d for their skill in it, take all opportunities of depretiating those Books, that are the most proper Helps for obtaining a The Disservice to any branch of Learning, when Persons « of — skill depretiate the most proper Books for obtaining aKnow- Bodleian MS. does not contain the genuine Robert of . Gloucester. Knowledge in it. Among such I may, there- fore, deservedly reckon those, that decry, and speak against, Robert of Gloucester’s Chro- nicle, as if the Fragments, that have been occasionally published of him by some of our greatest Antiquaries, were sufficient satisfac- tion to any one, that is curious. We may pro- badly (saith * the Compiler of the English Historical Library ) bring in also Robert of Gloucester, for’ another of his [Mat. Paris’s] Contemporaries, since Archbishop * Usher and + Mr. Camden are both positive, that he liv’d some Time in the Reign of King Henry the Third. His Rhyming Chronicle is in * English ; and the Reader may have a Taste. of it, (as much, it may be, as ever he'll desire) either from 5 Mr. Selden, or ° Mr. Wood. But I know seve- ral curious Persons, that are so far from be- 1 Kd. fol. p. 62. 2 Hist. | Cott. Caligula A.11. 5 Ti. Kccles. Brit. p. 29. 3 Re- | tles of Hon. p. 535. 6 Hist, mains, p.m. 8. 4 Bibl, | & Antigq. Oxon, Par.I. p.112, ing
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