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Illustrations of Bedfordshire Antiquities, Monumental Heraldry and Inscriptions. Volume 1 of 5 Imp. folio (20 x 13"), bound in brown morocco, gilt ornamental backs and sides with Fraser monogram (according to Halliday) by Holloway. From the library of Sir William Aug. Fraser: purchased by Mr Bagshawe from Halliday.

1868

Preface "Herein are represented delineations of all inscriptions and heraldic devices engraved on tombs and sepulchral memorials of a date anterior to the year 1700 as at present known to exist in those churches of the county of Bedford whose names are indicated in the succeeding table. The legends are carefully reduced to a given scale, but the blazonry is generally an exact counterpart of the originals. For this purpose each church in the county has been carefully visited, many as often as four or five times, and the drawings have been in every case taken back and compared with the actual monuments. In those churches whose names are omitted in the indexes nothing was discovered of interest congenial with the present design. Its compilation has occupied the leisure hours of 10 years, and now comprises many a precious trace of the labour of loving hands who worked in its progress." Each volume has a list of parishes at the front; and vols. i-iv have also an alphabetical list of the families referred to in the monumental inscriptions (i.e., in the phrase "daughter of Alexander Metcalfe of Hull", Metcalfe is also among the families indexed; but not an index of the coats of arms. (In vol. ii, though the list has been made for the index, the page numbers have not been filled in). Vol. v however has one index for monumental inscriptions and another for coats of arms. Parishes:- Ampthill Arlesey Aspley Guise Astwick Barford, Gt. Battlesden Bedford, St. Paul St. Mary Biddenham Bletsoe Blunham Bromham Caddington Families:- Ansell Ashcroft Beaumont Bolton Boteler Brown Bruce Cavandish Cockayne Coppin Duncombe Dyve Edwards Eston Farrell Harve (sic) Longueville Lysons Madox Nicolls Osborne Parrett Pemberton Reynardson St John Smith Stone Thorne Urlin Vigerous Waller Woodcock

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Fraser,
Holloway,
Halliday,
Fraser, William Aug.,
Bagshawe,
Ansell,
Ashcroft,
Beaumont,
Bolton,
Boteler,
Brown,
Bruce,
Cavendish,
Cockayne,
Coppin,
Duncombe,
Dyve,
Edwards,
Eston,
Farrell,
Harve,
Longueville,
Lysons,
Madox,
Nicolls,
Osborne,
Parrett,
Pemberton,
Reynardson,
St John,
Smith,
Stone,
Thorne,
Urlin,
Vigerous,
Waller,
Woodcock

armorial family, tombs, CHURCH, ILLUSTRATIONS, monumental inscriptions, AMPTHILL, ARLESEY, ASPLEY GUISE, ASTWICK, Great Barford, BATTLESDEN, St. Paul Bedford, St. Mary Bedford, BIDDENHAM, BLETSOE, BLUNHAM, BROMHAM, CADDINGTON