Works
His principal classical works are:
- Fragmenta Plutarchi II. inedita (1773), from a Harleian manuscript
- Dissertatio de Babrio (1776), containing some fables of Aesop, hitherto unedited, from a Bodleian manuscript
- the pseudo-Orphic De lapidibus (1781), which he assigned to the age of Constantius
- Conjecturae in Strabonem (1783)
- Isaeus De Meneclis hereditate (1785)
- Aristotle's Poetica, his most important work, published after his death under the superintendence of Thomas Burgess, bishop of Salisbury, in 1794.
Special mention is due of his editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1775–1778); and of Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others in the 15th century (1777–1778), with an appendix to prove that the poems were all the work of Chatterton. Tyrwhitt's bibliophile friend Thomas Crofts is credited with introducing Tyrwhitt in 1776 to George Catcott, the owner of the 'manuscripts' of the poems. Initially Tyrwhitt was convinced that they were authentic, and pressed for publication in 1777. It was only when the third edition was published that Tyrrwhitt changed his mind and pronounced the poems forgeries.
In 1782 he published a Vindication of the Appendix in reply to the arguments that they were authentic. While clerk of the House of Commons he edited Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons, 1620–1621 from the original manuscript in the library of Queen's College, Oxford, and Henry Elsynge's (1598–1654) The Manner of holding Parliaments in England.
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