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 contains, besides other tracts, the ‘Fragment of an old English Chronicle of the affairs of K. Edward IV.’ 19. ‘A Collection of curious Discourses written by eminent Antiquaries,’ 1720 (reprinted, with additions, 1774). 20. ‘Textus Roffensis,’ 1720. 21. ‘Roberti de Avesbury Historia de mirabilibus gestis Edwardi III,’ 1720. 22. ‘Joannis de Fordun Scotichronicon,’ 1722. 23. [Eyston's] ‘History and Antiquities of Glastonbury,’ 1722. 24. ‘Hemingi Cartularium Ecclesiæ Wigorniensis,’ 1723. 25. ‘Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle,’ 1724 (reprinted 1810). 26. ‘Peter Langtoft's Chronicle,’ 1725 (reprinted 1810). 27. ‘Joannis Glastoniensis Chronica,’ 1726. 28. ‘Adami de Domerham Historia de rebus gestis Glastoniensibus,’ 1727. 29. ‘Thomæ de Elmham Vita et gesta Henrici V,’ 1727. 30. ‘Liber Niger Scaccarii,’ 1728 (reprinted 1774). 31. ‘Historia Ricardi II a monacho de Evesham.’ 32. ‘Johannis de Trokelowe Annales Edwardi II, Henrici de Blaneforde Chronica, Monachi cujusdem Malmesburiensis Vita Edwardi II.’ 33. ‘Thomæ Caii Vindiciæ Antiquitatis Acad. Oxon.,’ 1730. 34. ‘Walteri Hemingford [Hemingburgh] Historia de rebus gestis Edwardi I, II, III,’ 1731. This also contains the ‘Anonymi Historia Edwardi III’ from the Harleian MS. 1729, really a compilation from Murimuth and Higden, and some extracts from Gascoigne's ‘Theological Dictionary.’ 35. ‘Thomas Otterbourne’ and ‘Johannes Wethamstede,’ 1732. 36. ‘Chronicon sive Annales Prioratus de Dunstaple,’ 1733. 37. ‘Benedictus abbas de vita et gestis Hen. II et Ric. I,’ 1735. All these volumes contain appendices full of matter of historical and antiquarian interest, quite independent of their chief contents. A complete list is given in the ‘Catalogus Operum’ in Huddesford's ‘Life.’

In 1731 was published, much to Hearne's disgust, ‘A Vindication of those who take the Oath of Allegiance.’ This was a youthful essay by Hearne, found among Mr. Cherry's papers, and published with the object of making Hearne ridiculous, as at one time entertaining different principles from those for which he had contended so strongly all his life (cf. Life, pp. 29–32).

In spite of his retiring character and simple habits of life, and of the extraordinary diligence and pains of which the above list is ample proof, he has not escaped the sneers of authors who ought to have known better. Thus Gibbon (Posthumous Works, ii. 711) has attacked him, and Pope's foolish lines on him in the ‘Dunciad,’ iii. 185 (where he styles him Wormius), are well known (cf., Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, pref. pp. xliii–xlvii).

There is a full-length portrait of Hearne, engraved by Burghers, in the Bodleian Library. Two others, engraved by Vertue after Tillemans, are prefixed to the ‘Vindication of the Oath of Allegiance,’ Bliss's ‘Extracts from the Diaries,’ the ‘Ectypa Varia,’ 1737, and are occasionally inserted in copies of Hearne's historical works. A complete account of the portraits is given by Bliss (Appendix I. pp. 886–8). A caricature of him will be found in Warton's ‘Companion to the Oxford Guide.’ 

HEARNE, THOMAS (1744–1817), water-colour painter, was born at Brinkworth near Malmesbury, in 1744. He came in early youth to London, where in 1763 he was awarded a premium by the Society of Arts. In 1765 he was apprenticed to Liam Woollett, the engraver, with whom he stayed for six years. In 1771 he accompanied to the Leeward Islands Sir Ralph Paynes, Lord Lavington, the newly appointed governor, and remained there three years and a half, making drawings of the characteristic features of the islands. This work employed him for two years after his return, and turned the direction of his art from engraving to drawing in water-colours. In 1777, in conjunction with William Byrne [q. v.], he commenced the most important undertaking of his life. 'The Antiquities of Great Britain'. This work occupied him till 1781. For it he executed all the drawings, fifty-two in number, and they were exhibited at the gal-