Remarks And Collections Of Thomas Hearne Vol6 Jan1 1717 May 8 1719

Author : Thomas Hearne
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ISBN 13 : 9781330838877
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Hearne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. 6 The present volume continues the series of Diaries of the Oxford Antiquary, Thomas Heame, through two and a half years (January, 1717, to May, 1719), and the six volumes now issued cover nearly half the period for which Heame has preserved to us the public, academical, and personal news of the Oxford of his day, namely, from 1705 to 1735. Mr. D. W. Rannie, who had edited the previous two volumes, found himself unable, from press of other work, to continue his labour of love, and arrangements were made by which individual members of the Committee should select and edit the new volume. Thanks to the long experience, intelligence, and skill of Miss A. F. Parker, who has copied the diaries, calendared the correspondence, and compiled the index, it is hoped that the volume will be read with as much pleasure and interest as the former ones, though the exhaustive notes which Mr. C. E. Doble contributed to the first two volumes cannot now be expected. The present issue is, it is believed, even more readable than its predecessors. In the first place, we have more about Heame himself, and the opinions of an outspoken Non-juror contending against the general set of the tide of circumstances. Unluckily, the prefaces to his editions of Camden's Elizabetha and of Guilielmus Neubrigensis afforded some ground for his enemies to allege that he had slighted the Reformation and thereby the Protestant character of the Church of England. The threatened prosecution was, however, in the end abandoned, partly through the Chancellor's recognition of Heame's learning and industry. One unforeseen result of Heame's contests with the Hanoverian party in power was that he found it convenient, on several occasions, to slip out of his rooms at St Edmund Hall at a very early hour of the morning and make a roaming expedition through the neighbourhood, sometimes staying for two or three nights at friends' houses. We owe to this some most interesting accounts of persons and places near Oxford, as, for example, of Ditchley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.