Volume 1

A collection of curious discourses / written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts.

Date:
1771
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Credit: A collection of curious discourses / written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. HEARNE’s PREFACE TO THE FORMER EDITION. §. i. A SI was lately difcourfing with fome learned friends about our Englifh antiquities, they were pleafed, among other things, to complain of the want of fome helps that might render the ftudy of them much more eafy than it appeared to them, at that time, to be : and they fuggefted, that it would be proper to put out a book to Ihew the methods that are to be followed in this ftudy, .and to explain the abbreviations or contractions in old mar¬ bles, coins, and MSS. They were fo can¬ did as to recommend the talk to me. But I was too cbnfcious of my own inabilities to engage in an undertaking, which requires a very great capacity and much reading. But though I thought it prudent to wave what I am by no means equal to, yet I cannot but make this general obfervation with refpect to infcriptians, coins, and MSS. that Inch as have a genius to the ftudy of antiquities will find it much more ufeful to obferve their Experience and practice the bell helps in ex¬ plaining antiquity.
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