These included Laurence Nowell, Matthew Parker, Robert Bruce Cotton and Humfrey Wanley. |
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Smith undertook his edition under the influence of Thomas Gale, encouraged by Ralph Thoresby, and with assistance of Humfrey Wanley on Old English. |
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The Beowulf manuscript itself is identified by name for the first time in an exchange of letters in 1700 between George Hickes, Wanley's assistant, and Wanley. |
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