Reference
X171/65
Title
Illustrations of Bedfordshire Antiquities, Monumental Heraldry and Inscriptions. Volume 2 of 5 pp. 87 - 173
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.
Date free text
Undated
Scope and Content
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:-
Campton
Cardington
Carlton
Clapham
Clophill
Colmworth
Cople
Crawley, Husborne
Dean
Dunstable
Dunton
Eaton Bray
Eaton Socon
Elstow
Eyworth
Families:-
Anderson
Beverley
Blake
Blundell
Braybrook
Bulkeley
Bussy
Chisshul
Cromwell
Dillingham
Dyer
Gadbury
Glynne
Goddard
Greatbach
Grey
Harvey
Hood
Luke
Neale
Osborne
Radcliffe
Slingsby
Taylor
Thomson
Waferer
Welles
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