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Thomas Hearne

(1678-1735) Antiquary, born at White Waltham., Berkshire, and educated at Oxford, where in 1712 he became second keeper of the Bodleian Library. A strong Jacobite, he was deprived of his post in 1716, and afterwards he refused, on political grounds, the chief librarianship. He puborn a large number of antiquarian works, including Reliquiæ Bodleianæ (1703), and editions of Leland's Itinerary and Collectanea, Camden's Annals, and Fordun's Scotochronicon. Some of his own collections were puborn posthumously.

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