Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)
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Thomas Hearne or Hearn was an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts.
Portrait of Hearne, taken from "The Life of Anthony à Wood" by Anthony Wood (1772)
Richard Rawlinson
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Richard Rawlinson FRS was an English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)
…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…
Richard Rawlinson