Thomas Hearne (July, 1678 - June 10, 1735), English antiquarian, was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire. Events August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War. ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... Events April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ... An antiquarian or antiquary is one concerned with antiquities or things of the past. ... White Waltham is a village in Berkshire, two miles west of Maidenhead, and also an airfield at that location. ... Berkshire (IPA: or  ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in England and forms part of the South East England region. ...

Having received his early education from his father, George Hearne, the parish clerk, he showed such taste for study that a wealthy neighbour, Francis Cherry of Shottesbrooke (c. 1665-1713), a celebrated non-juror, interested himself in the boy, and sent him to the school at Bray "on purpose to learn the Latin tongue." 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. At the university he 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. As a nonjuror 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 10th June 1735. A non-juror is a person who refuses to swear a particular oath. ... Bray seafront Bray (Bré, formerly Brí Chulainn in Irish) is a town in north County Wicklow, Ireland. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. ... St Edmund Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the 17th-century theologian. ... Events January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz signed March 30 - the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa. ... Entrance to the Library, with the coats-of-arms of several Oxford colleges The Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in England is second in size only to the British Library. ... George I King of Great Britain and Ireland George I (George Ludwig von Guelph-dEste) (28 May 1660–11 June 1727) was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) from 23 January 1698, and King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 1 August 1714, until his death. ... (Redirected from 10th June) June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... Events April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ...

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 1. (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)
• J. Sprott's Chronica (1719)
• the Vita et gesta Henrici V, wrongly attributed to Thomas Elmham (1727)
• Titus Livy's Vita Henrici V (1716)
• Walter of Hemingburgh's Chronicon (1731)
• William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum (1719).

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• John Leland's Itinerary (1710-1712) and the same author's Collectanea (1715)
• W. Camden's Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1717)
• Sir John Spelman's Life of Alfred (1709)
• W. Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More (1716).

He brought out editions of John Leland (September 13, 1502–April 18, 1552) was an English antiquary. ... William Camden William Camden (May 2, 1551 – November 9, 1623) was an English antiquarian and historian. ... Sir John Spelman (1594-1643) was an English historian. ...

• Livy (1708)
• Pliny's Epistolae et panegyricus (1703)
• Acts of the Apostles (1715).

Among his other compilations may be mentioned: A portrait of Titus Livius made long after his death. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... The Acts of the Apostles (Greek Praxeis Apostolon) is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. ...

• Ductor historicus, a Short System of Universal History (1704, 1705, 1714, 1724)
• A Collection of Curious Discourses by Eminent Antiquaries (1720)
• Reliquiae Bodleianae (1703).

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 Hearne's library, has been edited by B. Botfield (1848). Richard Rawlinson (February 3, 1690 - April 6, 1755) was an English clergyman and antiquary. ... // Headline text Philip Paul Bliss (9 July 1838 – 29 December 1876) was an American writer of hymns and a Gospel singer. ...

References

• Impartial Memorials of the Life and Writings of Thomas Hearne by several hands (1736)
• William Dunn Macray, Annals of the Bodleian Library (1890).
• Hearne's autobiography in W. Huddesford's Lives of Leland, Hearne and Wood (Oxford, 1772)
• T. Ouvry's Letters addressed to Thomas Hearne,privately printed (London, 1874)
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.