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)
Scotichronicon
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The Scotichronicon is a 15th-century chronicle by the Scottish historian Walter Bower. It is a continuation of historian-priest John of Fordun's earlier work Chronica Gentis Scotorum beginning with th
Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)
…Benedict of Peterborough's (Benedictus Abbas) De vita et gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I. (1735) John of Fordun's Scotichronicon (1722) the monk of Evesham's Historia vitae et regni Ricardi II (1729…
The founders of Scotland of medieval legend, Scota with Goídel Glas, voyaging from Egypt, as depicted in a 15th-century manuscript of the Scotichronicon
Depiction of the coronation of Alexander III on Moot Hill, Scone