This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...in the second year of her reign, each copy being signed by her own hand. This recites the injury done by 'sundrie people, partly ignorant, partly malicious, or covetous, by which meanes not only the Churches remaine at this present day spoiled, broken and ruinated, to the offence of all noble and gentle hearts, and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...in the second year of her reign, each copy being signed by her own hand. This recites the injury done by 'sundrie people, partly ignorant, partly malicious, or covetous, by which meanes not only the Churches remaine at this present day spoiled, broken and ruinated, to the offence of all noble and gentle hearts, and the extinguishing of the honourable and good memory of sundry vertuous and noble families deceased, but also the true understanding of divers families in this Realme is thereby so darkened as the true course of their inheritance may be hereafter interrupted.' Fuller says (Ch. Hist. ix. 1, 36), 'Her princely care took this desired effect that it stopped the main stream of sacrilege herein, though some by-rivulets thereof ran still in private churches, in defiance of all orders provided to the contrary.' At the destruction of the monasteries the brasses on the tombs were frequently sold with the church plate, and when churchwardens were in want of money for 'beautifying' the church, they did not hesitate to sell the metal from the tombs, and unblushingly entered the fact in their account books. They were frequently laid down to other persons, or re-engraved on the other side, and hence called palimpsests. These are of three kinds--first, those in which the plate is engraved on the reverse side of the original; second, in which the original figure is altered and appropriated to another person of later date and costume; third, the original figure remains unaltered, but a fresh inscription, shield, etc., are introduced. The latter are very puzzling, and it is very difficult to understand them unless one knows the history of the brass. Weever (Fun. Mon., 427) tells us of an incumbent of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, stripping the gravestones of the...
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Very good+ condition. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. England; antiquities; archaeology; xii, 240 pages of text including index; 18.7cm; blind stamped green cloth rubbed; spine chipped; corners very bumped; gilt decoration; top edge gilt; inner back hinge cracked; illus. listed p. [viii]-xii; 20p. publisher's catalog at end; owner marks.
