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THOMAS HEARNE (1678-1735)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 128 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:HEARNE (1678-1735)  , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:July 1678 at Littlefield See also:Green in the See also:parish of See also:White See also:Waltham, See also:Berkshire . Having received his See also:early See also:education from his See also:father, See also:George See also:Hearne, the parish clerk, he showed such See also:taste for study that a wealthy See also:neighbour, See also:Francis See also:Cherry of Shottesbrooke (c . 1665–1713), a celebrated nonjuror, interested himself in the boy, and sent him to the school at See also:Bray " on purpose to learn the Latin See also:tongue." Soon Cherry took him into his own See also:house, and his education was continued at Bray until See also:Easter 1696, when he matriculated at St See also:Edmund See also:Hall, See also:Oxford . At the university he attracted the See also:attention of Dr See also:John See also:Mill (1645–1707), the See also:principal of St Edmund Hall, who employed him to compare See also: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 See also:catalogue of books, and in 1712 he was appointed second keeper . In 1715 Hearne was elected architypographus and See also:esquire See also:bedell in See also:civil See also:law in the university, but objection having been made to his holding this See also:office together with that of second librarian, he resigned it in the same See also:year . As a nonjuror he refused to take the oaths of See also:allegiance to See also: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 . Having refused several important academical positions, including the librarianship of the Bodleian and the See also:Camden professorship of See also:ancient See also:history, rather than take the oaths, he died on the loth of See also:June 1735 .

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