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Antiente Epitaphes

(From A. B. 1250 to A. D. 1800)

Collected & sett forth in Chronologicall order

BY

Thomas F. Ravenfhaw, M. A., F.S.A.

London :

JOSEPH MASTERS & CO.

m.dccc.lxxviii.

"I will offer vnto yovr view a nvmber of choice Epitaphes of yovr Nation for matter and conceit, fome good, fome bad, that you may fee how Learning ebbed and flowed."—Remaines concerning Britaine, by WM. CAMDEN, 1636.

THE Epitaphs fet forth on the following pages have been collected from many and various fources during the last five and twenty years.

Those which were formerly in the old City Churches are taken, of course, from Weever and Stow,1 in whofe volumes they happily were enshrined previous to the deftruction of the originals in the Great Fire.

A very large number I have myself copied from tablets, headftones, and braffes; many have been sent me by friends; others I have found in various County histories, and in the earlier series of "Notes and Queries," &c. &c.

They are here arranged chronologically, with a view to shew, in fome degree, the styles which prevailed at different periods.

The frontispiece is a reduced fac-fimile of the earliest epitaph in English.

PEWSEY RECTORY, WILTS.

1878.

1 ANTIENT FVNERAL MONVMENTS, by lOHN WEEUER. LONDON, 1631. The SVRVAY of LONDON written in the yeere 1598 by IOHN STOW, & fince then continved & mvch enlarged. LONDON, 1618.

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