]> 2026-05-29T17:21:18+00:00 Thomas Hearne - Thomas Baker - 1713-05-10 0 en 51.752013888889,-1.25785 1713-05-10Z 2346849.5 'At the Beginning of last Week one M^r. Stosse, a Foreigner, presented to me, in your Name, a Copy of your excell^t. Book about Margaret Countess of Richmond, for w^ch (and for several other Favours I have receiv'd from you by the Interest of our good Friend M^r. Bedford) I acknowledge my self extremely obliged to you.<br> This Gentleman I perceive from that Conversation I have had with him is one of those that collect Coyns and Medals on purpose to sell them again, and not out of any real design of advancing Learning. These Persons value Coyns more for their Rarity and Price which, upon that account, they will carry with some People, than for the use they may be of in illustrating ancient History, which oftentimes receives more light from Coyns that are common than from those that are scarce. I have receiv'd some hint that M^r. Stosse came to Oxford on purpose to get what Coyns he can amongst us. He hath been very urgent with me to give him the liberty of looking over every Coyn in our Bodlejan Cabinet distinctly and in particular; but this Request I neither can nor will comply with. I have however let him have the use of the Catalogues of our Coyns, and I design to produce to him such as he shall think fit to note from thence. This I have told him; but he does not seem well contented. I am the more cautious in this Affair, because I have been told that he hath left but a very bad Character behind him in Cambridge. I gave the greater heed to this, because the Person that mentioned it is a Clergyman, and actually a Member of your University. And indeed I have not heard a good Character of him from any one Person. Yet after all I shall be unwilling to judge hardly of him, provided I receive a favourable Account of him from you. My humble request therefore is that you would be pleased to write me three or four lines concerning the Opinion you have of him at Cambridge, (where he says he continued six Months) both as to his Learning and Honesty, but w^ch you will farther oblige.' (Hearne 1885, vol. 4, p. 174) 15514 English Hearne 1885, vol. 4, p. 174 Burnett 2020b, pp. 436 n. 452, 959 n. 181 oxford bodleian library cambridge 15514 Thomas Hearne - Thomas Baker - 1713-05-10 Oxford Correspondence.png 2023-10-03T13:17:12Z 2460221.0536111 2024-01-09T16:24:17Z 2460319.1835301 false Thomas Hearne - Thomas Baker - 1713-05-10 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Thomas Hearne - Thomas Baker - 1713-05-10]] Thomas Hearne - Thomas Baker - 1713-05-10# QUERYf84c8bc7d1bc475a34b0e6cc32239e35 0 0 csv 1 [[:Thomas Hearne - Thomas Baker - 1713-05-10]] Thomas Hearne - Thomas Baker - 1713-05-10# QUERY554511982bb11958a235a8e8f4f3e2b7