Collection Of Curious Discourses by Thomas Hearne. This 17th-century miscellany surveys English antiquities through concise, source-based essays on topics such as mottos under coats of arms, the antiquity of Parliament, and epitaphs. It gathers writings by multiple authors—antiquaries and scholars—whose work traces the origins of heraldic devices, funeral rites, tomb monuments, and epitaphic verse, as well as the long history of legal and parliamentary institutions. The material covers how inscriptions, devices, and memory shaped social identity, power, and public ritual from pre-Conquest to early modern times, including discussions of royal sanctities, churchyards, and the ordering of law through the great seal and three estates. The volume is edited and expanded posthumously by Thomas Hearne, who emphasizes fidelity to manuscripts, provides biographical notes on authors, and frames the collection as a repository of metadata for topics, places, persons, and ceremonies. The overall aim is documentary, philological, and classificatory, reflecting the scholarship of Elizabethan to early modern antiquaries.

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