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X171/68
Title
Illustrations of Bedfordshire Antiquities, Monumental Heraldry and Inscriptions. Volume 5 of 5 pp. 1 - 92
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.
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:-
Podington
Potton
Pulloxhill
Renhold
Roxton
Sharnbrook
Southill
Stanbridge
Staughton, Lt.
Stevington
Stotfold
Stondon
Sundon
Sutton
Thurleigh
Tilsworth
Tingrith
Toddington
Totternhoe
Turvey
Old Warden
Wilden
Families:-
Becher
Bernard
Boteler
Briers
Burgoyne
Chester
Cheyne
Chibnall
Child
Cobb
Cockayne
Crofts
Daye
Duncombe
Faldo
Fisher
Fitz
Fowler
Freeman
Greve
Hale
Haxby
Hillersden
Honnor
Hunt
Kelyng
Lake
Leach
Moore
Mordaunt
Mulsho
Nodes
Orlebar
Palmer
Parlys
Payne
Pigott
Rands
Richardson
Robinson
St John
Salle
Smith
Snelling
Symcotts
Ward
Watson
Wayte
Wentworth
Date free text
Undated
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