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John Leland

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John Leland c.1506–1552, English antiquary. He was successively chaplain and librarian to Henry VIII. In 1533 he was appointed king's antiquarian, and in this capacity traveled through England, collecting a great mass of historical and geographical data for a proposed book to be entitled History and Antiquities. The work was never completed because he went insane in 1550. His notes, however, were invaluable to later scholars.

Bibliography: See his Itinerary (ed. by T. Hearne, 9 vol., 1710–12) and Collectanea (ed. by Hearne, 6 vol., 1715); biography by E. Burton (1896).

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Leland, John

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Leland, John (c.1506–52), the earliest of modern English antiquaries. He studied at Paris, took holy orders, and by 1530 was involved with the royal libraries. He made a tour through England in 1535–43, intending his researches to be the basis of a great work on the ‘History and Antiquities of this Nation’, but he left merely a mass of undigested notes. Leland's Itinerary was first published at Oxford, in nine volumes, by Hearne in 1710–12; and his Collectanea in six (1715).

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