prefaces awakened, however, the hostility of the university magnates, and subjected him to several prosecutions. He died 10th June, 1735. ‘Though Hearne was somewhat indiscriminate in his antiquarian taste, and rambling and desultory in his style of composition, his persevering diligence and minute accuracy enabled him to do valuable service in bibliography.

"His publications were nearly all printed by subscription at Oxford. The principal of them are: Ductor Historicus; Reliquiae Bodleianae; an edition of Livy; Spelman’s Life of Alfred the Great; Leland’s Itinerary; Leland’s collectanea; Acta Apostolorum; Titi Livii Foro-Juliensis Vita Henrici Quinti, Regis Angliae; Aluredi Beverlacensis Annales; Gulielmi Roperi Vita D. Thomae Mori Equitis Aurati; Gulielmi Camdeni Annales Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Regnante Elizabetha; Gulielmi Neubrigensis Historia: Thomae Sprotti Chronica; A Collection of Curious Discourses Written by Eminent Antiquarians upon English Antiquities; Roberti de Avesbury Hlistoria de Mirabilibus Gestis Edward III.; Johannis Glastonbury; Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle; Annals of Dunstable; and Benedict, Abbot of Peterborough. Most of these have been reprinted. His MSS. were left by him to Dr. William Bradford, of whom they were bought by Dr. Richard Rawlinson and bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. Bibliotheca Hearniana, Excerpts from the Catalogue of Thomas Hearne, M.A., appeared in 1848. Reliquiae Hearnianr, the remains of Thomas Hearne, of Edmund Hall, being extracts from his MS. diaries, collected with a few notes by Philip Bliss was published in two volumes, Oxford, 1857; 2d ed., London, 186.

"See impartial memorials of the Life and Writings of Thomas Hearne, M.A., by several hands, London, 1736; Lives of Leland, Hearne and Wood, Oxford, 1772; and Nichol’s Literary Anecdotes. Letters addresed to T. Hearne. edited by T. Onvry, were privately printed at London, 1874. Bliss’s copy of The Life of T. Hearne. with copious notes, is in the library of the British Museum."

From "Standard Peerages" in the Mercantile Library, St. Louis, Missouri, I note:

THOMAS HEARNE, antiquarian, born 1678, died 1735. Life by Huddesford 1772, Kett 1810, and Henry Headley.

He was the son of George Hearne; his mother’s maiden name was Edith Wise; he was a great writer and publisher of old antiquities,

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