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Addison, Joseph. Westminster Abbey, the Spectator, Nos. 26 and 329.

Alden, Rev. Timothy. A Collection of American Epitaphs; New York, 1814, 12mo., 5 vols.

Andrews, William, F.R.H.S. Gleanings from Yorkshire Graveyards, Yorkshire Magazine, vol. 2, pp. 95-6; Epitaphs on Sportsmen, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, July 24th and 31st, 1880. Curious Epitaphs, Chambers’s Journal, vol. 55, pp. 570-572. Many articles in the Argonaut, Eastern Morning News, Fireside, Hand and Heart, Hull Miscellany, Hull News, Long Ago, Newcastle Courant, Notes and Queries, Notes about Notts., Nottingham Daily Guardian, Oldham Chronicle, Press News, Reliquary, Whitaker’s Journal, Yorkshireman, and about fifty other London magazines and provincial newspapers.

Anthologia: A Collection of Ludicrous Epitaphs and Epigrams; 1807, 12mo.

Appleby, Henry Calvert, Hull. Shakespeare and Epitaphs. “Miscellanea,” edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S., pp. 28-32.

Archer, Capt. J. H. Lawrence. The Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies, from the earliest date, with Genealogical and Historical Annotations from original, local, and other sources, illustrative of the Histories and Genealogies of the 17th and 18th Centuries. London: Chatto and Windus, 1875, 4to.

Capt. Archer collected these epitaphs during the years 1858 and 1864-5, in the colonies of Jamaica and Barbadoes. The above is a very interesting volume.

Asiaticus: Sketches of Bengal, Epitaphs in Burial Grounds round Calcutta. Calcutta, 1803, 8vo, 2 parts in 1 vol.

Bancroft, Thos. Two Books of Epigrammes and Epitaphs, Dedicated to two Top Branches of Gentry: Sir Charles Shirley, Bart., and William Davenport, Esq. London: printed by J. Okes, for Matthew Walbancke, and are to be sold at his shop in Grayes-Inne-gate, 1639, 4to, 86 pp.

Barker, T. B. Abney Park Cemetery: a Complete Guide to every part of this beautiful Depository of the Dead; with Historical Sketches of Stoke Newington. London, n.d. [1869], 8vo.

[Benham, Mrs. Edward]. Among the Tombs of Colchester. Colchester: Benham and Co., 1880, 8vo, 76 pp.

Blacker, Rev. Beaver Henry, M.A. Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of Cheltenham. London, 1877, 4to. Privately Printed.

Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of Charlton Kings; with Extracts from the Registers, etc., 1871.

Blanchard, L. The Cemetery at Kensal Green: the Grounds and Monuments. London: 1843, 8vo.

Booth, Rev. John, M.A. Metrical Epitaphs, Ancient and Modern. London and Eton: Bickers and Son, 1868, 12mo., pp. xxiv-215.

Bowden, John, Stonemason of Chester. The Epitaph Writer; consisting of upwards of six hundred original Epitaphs; Moral, Admonitory, Humorous, and Satirical. London, 1791, 12mo.

[Boyd, Rev. A. K. H.] Concerning Churchyards; by A. K. H. B. Fraser’s Magazine, vol. 58, pp. 47-59.

Boyd, H. S. Tributes to the Dead, in a series of Ancient Epitaphs translated from the Greek, 1826, 12mo.

Brown, James, Keeper of the Grounds, and author of the “Deeside Guide.” The Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions in Grey Friars’ Churchyard, Edinburgh; collected by James Brown. Compiled and Edited [by J. Moodie Miller], with an Introduction by D[avid] L[aing, LL.D.] Edinburgh: J. Moodie Miller, 1867; 8vo, pp. lxxxiv-360, (and 23 illustrations.)

Caldwell, Thomas. A Select Collection of Ancient and Modern Epitaphs and Inscriptions. London, 1796, 12mo.

Cansick, Frederick Teague. A Collection of Curious and Interesting Epitaphs copied from the Monuments of Distinguished and Noted Characters in the Ancient Church and Burial Grounds of St. Pancras, Middlesex. London: J. R. Smith; 1869-72, 8vo, 2 vols.

Cemeteries, The, and Catacombs of Paris, Quarterly Review, vol. 21, pp. 359-398.

Churchyard Gleanings, or, a Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions. Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson; n.d., 8vo, 24 pp., and a large folding plate.

Churchyard Lyrist: consisting of five hundred original Inscriptions to commemorate the dead; 1832.

Churchyard, The Seaside. Household Words, vol. 2, pp. 257-262.

Churchyard Wanderings. Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine, vol. 5, pp. 84-91.

Clark, Benjamin. Hand-book for Visitors to Kensal Green Cemetery. A new edition, with additions. London: Masters, 1843, 12mo., pp. xvi-108.

Clay, Edward. An History and Topographical Description of Framlingham, Interspersed with explanatory notes, poetical extracts, and translations of the Latin Inscriptions. Halesworth, n.d. [1810], 8vo, 144 pp., with two plates of the Castle.

Cobbe, Frances Power. French and English Epitaphs. Temple Bar, vol. 22, pp. 349-357.

Collinson, G. Cemetery Interments. London: Longman, 1840.

Counties of England, The, and their Quaint Old Lays and Epitaphs. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, N.S., vol. 26, pp. 399-400.

The epitaphs in this article are collected from “Ye New and Complete British Traveller.”

Croft, H. J., Guide to Kensal Green Cemetery, new edition. London, 1867, 8vo.

Crull, Jodocus, M.D. The Antiquities of St. Peter’s, or the Abbey Church of Westminster: containing all the Inscriptions, Epitaphs, &c., upon the Tombs and Gravestones; London, 1711, 8vo. Second edition, London, 1715, 8vo; third edition, vol. 1, edited by H. S., vol. 2, by J. R., London, 1722, 8vo, 2 vols.; fourth edition, London, 1741, 8vo, 2 vols.; fifth edition, London, 1742, 8vo, 2 vols.

Dart, Rev. John. The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, And the Once-Adjoining Monastery, &c.; London: Printed and sold by J. Cole, Engraver, at the Crown in Great Kirby St., Hatton Garden, and J. Hoddle, Engraver, in Bridewell Precinct, near Fleet Bridge, MDCCXXVI, fol., pp. ix-204; Appendix, pp. i-lvi, [With Illustrations.]

There is, in the above history, (pp. 39-91), a survey of the monuments in Canterbury Cathedral, with the inscriptions on the monuments and tombstones, and 27 plates.

[Diprose, John]. Diprose’s Book of Epitaphs: Humorous, Eccentric, Ancient, and Remarkable. London: Diprose and Bateman, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, n.d., [1879, 1880], 8vo, 80 pp.

Duncan, Andrew, M.D., M.P. Monumental Inscriptions selected from the Burial Grounds at Edinburgh; 1815, 8vo, 108 pp.

E., D. Stray Thoughts on Monumental Inscriptions. Christian Observer, vol. 6, pp. 609-619.

Epigrams and Epigraphs, by the author of “Proverbial Folk-Lore,” n.d., 8vo, 176 pp.

Epitaph, EncyclopÆdia Brittannica, eighth edition, vol. 9, pp. 282-283; ninth edition, pp. 493-496.

——, Penny EncyclopÆdia, vol. 9, pp. 482-483.

Epitaphial Memorablia. Dublin University Magazine, vol. 55, pp. 580-585.

Epitaphs. Chambers’s Journal, vol. 46, pp. 124-126.

——, Ancient and Modern,—Chambers’s Journal, vol. 37, pp. 141-143.

——, Ancient and Modern in four parts; n.d., 8vo.

——, Bibliographical, The Bibliographer, vol. 1, pp. 81-82.

In this article there are epitaphs on Caxton, John Daye, Christopher Barker, John Foster, first printer of Boston, U.S., John Baskerville, Adam Williamson, and Rev. John Cotton.

——, Collection of, and Inscriptions, 1802, 12mo.

——, Collection of, A, and Monumental Inscriptions. Historical, Biographical, Literary, and Miscellaneous; with an Essay by Samuel Johnson, LL.D., London: 1806, 12mo., 2 vols.

——, Collection, A, of Curious and Interesting, copied from the existing monuments of distinguished and noted characters in the Churches and Churchyards of Hornsey, Tottenham, Enfield, Edmonton, Barnet, and Hadley, in the county of Middlesex, 1875, 8vo, with plates and arms.

——, On, and Elegiac Inscriptions. Dublin University Magazine, vol. 40, pp. 206-212.

——, Original Collection, An, of Extant Epitaphs, gathered by a ‘Commercial’ in Spare Moments. London: Maiben, 1870, 8vo.

——, Original and Selected, with an Historical and Moral Essay on the subject; by a Clergyman, 1840, 8vo.

——, Scriptural, London: Smith and Elder, 1847, 18mo.

——, Select Collection of, A, not to be found in any other; dedicated to the Archbishops and Bishops. London, 1754, 8vo.

——, Some Curious, Chambers’s Journal, vol. 57, pp. 666-668.

——, Traders’, Chambers’s Journal, vol. 50, pp. 377-379.

—— and Epigrams. The Norfolk Garland, 1872, 8vo, pp. 142-147. [Epitaphs on W. Slater, the Yarmouth Stage Coachman, Micaiah Sage, Sir Thomas Hare, Bart., Beatrice, wife of John Guavor, John Dowe, Thomas Allyn and his two wives, Robert Gilbert, Prebendary J. Spendlove and his wife, Richard Corbet, D.D., William Inglott, Organist of Norwich Cathedral, Tom Page.]

—— and Epigrams, Curious, Quaint, and Amusing, from various sources. London: Palmer, 1869, 12mo., 120 pp.

Fairley, W., F.S. S., Mining Engineer. Epitaphiana: or, The Curiosities of Churchyard Literature. Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Epitaphs. With an Introduction, giving an account of the various customs prevailing amongst the Ancients and Moderns in the Disposal of their Dead. London: Samuel Tinsley, 1873, 8vo, pp. viii-171.

Fisher, P., The Catalogue of most of the Memorable Tombes, Grave-stones, Plates, Escutcheons, or Atchievements in the demolisht or yet extant Churches of London, from St. Katherine’s beyond the Tower to Temple Barre. London, 1668, 4to. There were two other editions of this work published in 1670, and 1684. The Tombes, Monuments, and Sepulchral Inscriptions, lately visible in St. Paul’s Cathedral, and St. Faith’s under it, completely rendered in Latin and English, with several discourses on sundry persons entombed therein. London, 1684, 4to.

Frobisher, Nathaniel. New Select Collection of Epitaphs; Humorous, Whimsical, Moral, and Satyrical. “The House appointed for all living,” Job. [Round a view of a church and churchyard]. London: Printed for Nathaniel Frobisher, in the Pavement, York; n.d., [1790], 8vo, 216 pp., [With an engraved title].

Gardiner, Richard. An Elegy on the Death of Lady Asgill, Lady of Sir Charles Asgill, Knt., and Alderman of London; to which is added, An Epitaph on the late Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart., of Gillingham, in the county of Norfolk. London, 1754, fol.

Garrick, David. Epitaphs on Claudy Philips, A Lady’s Bullfinch, A Clergyman, William Hogarth, James Quin, Sterne, Mr. Holland, Mr. Beighton, Whitehead, Howard. Poetical Works, 1785, 12mo., 2 vols., vol. 2, pp. 480-486.

Gibson, James. Inscriptions on the Tombstones and Monuments erected in Memory of the Covenanters. With Historical Introduction and Notes. Glasgow: Dunn and Wright, 176 Buchanan St., n.d. [1879], 12mo., pp. viii-291. [With five plates].

The above interesting sketches were written for the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, and appeared in that paper during the spring and summer of 1875.

Graham, William. A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern; with an Emblematical Frontispiece, [Lanercost Priory, Camb.]. Second edition; London: for T. and J. Allman, 1823, 8vo, pp. iv-320.

Hackett, John, late Commoner of Balliol College, Oxford. Select and Remarkable Epitaphs on Illustrious and other Persons in Several Parts of Europe. With Translations of such as are in Latin and Foreign Languages. And Compendious Accounts of the Deceased, their Lives and Works. London: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, in Gray’s Inn, 1757, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. 288, 246, and Indexes, (22 pp.)

Hall-Stevenson, John. Works: containing Crazy Tales, Fables for grown Gentlemen, Lyric Epistles, Pastoral Cordial, Pastoral Puke, Macarony Fables, Monkish Epitaphs. London, 1793-5, 8vo, 3 vols.

Hare, Augustus J. C. Epitaphs for Country Churchyards, Collected and Arranged. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1856, 12mo., 70 pp.

Harrison, Rev. F. Bayford, Churchyard Poetry, Macmillan’s Magazine, vol. 47, pp. 296-302.

Henney, William, of Hammersmith. A New and Improved Edition of Moral and Interesting Epitaphs, and Remarkable Monumental Inscriptions in England and America, to which are added Poems on Life, Death, and Eternity. Printed for and sold only by the Editor. Ninth edition, with additions, n.d., 8vo, 60 pp.; another edition, 1814, 12mo.

Hervey, James, M.A. Meditations among the Tombs. In a Letter to a Lady. Meditations and Contemplations, 1779, 8vo, 2 vols., vol 1, pp. 1-112.

Huddersford, George, M.A. The Uricamical Chaplet, a Selection of Original Poetry; comprising smaller Poems, Serious and Comic, Classical Trifles, Sonnets, Inscriptions and Epitaphs, Songs and Ballads, Mock-Heroic Epigrams, Fragments, &c. London, 1805, 8vo.

Inscriptions upon the Tombs and Gravestones in the Dissenters’ Burial Place, near Bunhill Fields. London, 1717, 8vo.

J., W. Illustrated Guide to Kensal Green Cemetery. London, 1861, 8vo.

[James, J. A.] Bunhill Memorials; Sacred Reminiscences of three hundred Ministers and other Persons of note who are buried in Bunhill Fields, of every Denomination, with the Inscriptions on their Tombs and Gravestones. 1849, 8vo.

Jones, James, Gent. Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones: or, a Curious Collection of above Nine Hundred of the most Remarkable Epitaphs, Antient and Modern, Serious and Merry; In the Kingdoms of Great Britain, Ireland, &c. In English Verse. Faithfully collected. Westminster, 1727, 8vo.

Johnson, Samuel, LL.D. An Essay on Epitaphs. Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 10, pp. 593-596. Also included in his Works, Edited by Arthur Murphy, 1792, 12 vols., 8vo, vol. ii, pp. 270-280.

Essay on Pope’s Epitaphs. “Lives of the Most Eminent Poets.” [1801], vol. 3, pp. 199-217.

This Essay was first contributed to The Universal Visitor, and afterwards included in the “Lives of the Poets,” where it is placed at the end of the Life of Pope, and is reprinted in the “Works of Dr. Johnson,” [vol. xi, pp. 199-216].

Kelke, W. H. Churchyard Manual, with Five Hundred Epitaphs. London, Cox, 1854, 8vo.

Kensal Green, The Cemetery at, the Grounds and Monuments, with a Memoir of the Duke of Sussex, n.d., 8vo, with illustrations.

Kippax, J. R. Churchyard Literature: Choice Collection of American Epitaphs. Chicago, 1876, 12mo.

Last Homes of the Londoners, Chambers’s Journal, vol. 37, pp. 406-408.

Loaring, Henry James. Epitaphs: Quaint, Curious, and Elegant. With Remarks on the Obsequies of Various Nations. Compiled and Collated. London: William Tegg, n.d. [1872], 8vo, pp. vi-262.

M’Dowall, William. Memorials of St. Michael’s, the Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries, 1876, 8vo, pp. ix-446. [With a frontispiece (St. Michael’s Church and Churchyard) and vignette title].

This is a most valuable local work.

Macgregor, Major Robert Guthrie, of the Bengal Retired List. Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology. Translated. London: Nissen and Parker, 1857, 8vo, 230 pp.

Macrae, D. Queer Epitaphs. Book of Blunders. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1872.

Maitland, Charles, M.D. The Church in the Catacombs: a Description of the Primitive Church of Rome, Illustrated by its Sepulchral Remains. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. 1846, 8vo, 312 pp., with illustrations.

Chapter III. of this work gives an interesting account of the Catacombs as a Christian Cemetery.

Memorials of the Dead, The Journal of the Society for Preserving the, in the Churches and Churchyards of Great Britain. Norwich: Samuel Sayer, 1883, 8vo, Nos. 1-4. (continued).

A Quarterly Magazine of twenty-four pages.

Mills, J., of Cowbit, Lincolnshire. Verses, Odes, &c., on Spalding, and Letters and Epitaphs, addressed to various persons and subjects, n.d., 4to, 42 pp.

Monteith, Robert, M.A. A Theatre of Mortality: or, the Illustrious Inscriptions extant upon the Monuments in the Grey Friars’ Church Yard, &c., in Edinburgh and its Suburbs. Edinburgh, 1704.

A Further Collection of Funeral Inscriptions over Scotland. Edinburgh, 1713, small 8vo, 2 vols.

Neve, John Le. Monumenta Anglicana: being Inscriptions on the Monuments of several Eminent Persons. London, 1717-19, 8vo, 5 vols.

Lives, The, Characters, Deaths, Burials and Epitaphs, &c., of all the Protestant Bishops of the Church of England, since the Reformation as settled by Queen Elizabeth, A.D., 1559. London, 1731, 8vo, vol. 1, in two parts; part 1, 268 pp., part 2, 288 pp.

Norfolk, Horatio Edward. Gleanings in Graveyards: a Collection of Curious Epitaphs. London: J. R. Smith, 1861, 12mo., 172 pp.; Second edition, 1861, 12mo., 172 pp.; Third edition, revised and enlarged, 1866, 12mo., 228 pp.

Northend, Charles. A Book of Epitaphs. New York, 1873, 12mo., 171 pp.

Norwood Cemetery, a Descriptive Sketch, with Copies of the Inscriptions, etc., 1847, 8vo, 42 pp., with many cuts.

Orchard, R. A New Selection of Epitaphs and Remarkable Monumental Inscriptions. Second edit., 1827, 12mo.

Parr, Samuel, D.D. Latin Inscriptions, Works, Edited by J. Johnstone, M.D., vol. iv, pp. 559-655; English Inscriptions, ib. pp. 656-676; Illustrations of the Preceding Inscriptions, ib. pp. 677-720; and Correspondence Illustrative of the Inscriptions, vol. viii., pp. 555-656.

Parish Minister, A, Verses for Graves Stones in Churchyards. London, 1816, 8vo.

Parsons, Rev. Philip, M.A. The Monuments and Painted Glass of upwards of one hundred Churches, chiefly in the Eastern Part of Kent; most of which were examined by the Editor in person, and the rest communicated by the resident clergy. With an Appendix, containing three Churches in other counties [Hadleigh and Lavenham, Suffolk, and Dedham, Essex.] To which is added a small Collection of detached Epitaphs, with a few notes on the whole. Canterbury, 1794, 4to, pp. viii-549, with errata and indexes, 4 pages, pp. 424-8, omitted.

Mr. Parsons died at the College, at Wye, in 1812, at the age of eighty-three.

Peck, Francis, M.A. Desiderata Curiosa: or, a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces relating chiefly to Matters of English History; consisting of Choice Tracts, Memoirs, Letters, Wills, Epitaphs, &c. Transcribed, many of them, from the originals themselves, and the rest from divers Ancient MS. copies, or the MS. Collections of Sundry Famous Antiquaries and other Eminent Persons, both of the last and present Age. The whole as far as possible digested into an order of time, and illustrated with ample Notes, Contents, Additional Discourses, and a complete Index. Adorned with cuts. A new edition, greatly corrected, with some Memoirs of the Life and Writing of Mr. Peck. London: Printed for Thomas Evans in the Strand, MDCCLXXIX., 2 vols., 4to. [With portrait and nine plates.]

Peirse, C. G. B. Riddles, Epitaphs, and Bon Mots. Designed by C. Grace, 1873, 4to.

Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, F.R.S., F.S.A. Chronicles of the Tombs. A Select Collection of Epitaphs, Preceded by an Essay on Epitaphs and other Monumental Inscriptions, with Incidental Observations on Sepulchral Antiquities. (Bohn’s Antiq. Lib.,) 1857, 8vo, pp. v-529.

Pope, Alexander, Epitaphs on Charles, Earl of Dorset; Sir William Trumbal; Hon. S. Harcourt; James Craggs; Nicholas Rowe; Mrs. Corbet; Hon. Robert and Mary Digby; Sir G. Kneller; Gen. Henry Withers; Elijah Fenton; Mr. Gay; Sir I. Newton; F. Atterbury, D.D.; Edmund, Duke of Buckingham. Works, edited by Bishop Warburton, 1770, 8vo, 9 vols. Vol. vi, pp. 85-103.

Preparing for the End. Chambers’s Journal, vol. 49, pp. 229-232.

Pulleyn, William, Church-Yard Gleanings and Epigrams. London, n.d., [1830] 12mo.

[Ranken, Peter]. Epitaphs: or, Church-yard Gleanings. “Better to have a bad Epitaph when dead, than their ill report while living.”—Hamlet. Collected by Old Mortality, jun. London: Bemrose and Sons, and Ranken and Co. n.d. [1874] 8vo, 184 pp.

Richings, Benjamin. Original and Selected Epitaphs, with Essays. London: Parker and Son, 1840. post 8vo.

Robinson, Joseph R., Sculptor, Derby. Epitaphs, Collected from the Cemeteries of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leicester, Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Derby, &c. With Original and Selected Epitaphs by Tennyson, Longfellow, Montgomery, Mrs. Hemans, Eliza Cook, Wordsworth, Robert Nicholl, Chas. Mackay, Milman, Mrs. Norton, J. B. Langley, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Barbauld, Bernard, G. W. Longstaff, Alaric Watts, &c. The whole collected and arranged. London, Atchley, 1859, 12mo., 208 pp.

Rogers, Rev. Charles, LL.D. Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland. Printed for the Grampian Club, 1871, 8vo, 2 vols.

“Dr. Rogers has not merely collected the epitaphs and inscriptions on the tombstones and monuments of Scotland, but he often gives illustrative particulars of a biographical and historical character. For this and similar things, his work must become a standard book of reference.”—Glasgow Star.

S., H. L., and L. S. M. Epitaphs collected from Holy Writ, and our best Authors on Sacred Subjects. Arranged and edited by G. B. Chaloner. London: Atchley, 1868, 12mo. 200 pp.

Sanderson, Robert. Lincoln Cathedral; an exact copy of all the Ancient Monumental Inscriptions there, as they stood in MDCXLI; collected. And compared with and corrected by Sir William Dugdale’s MS. Survey. London, 1851, 8vo.

Simpson, Joseph. A Collection of Curious, Interesting, and Facetious Epitaphs, Monumental Inscriptions, &c. London: Published and sold by Joseph Simpson; 1854, 8vo, 48 pp.

Smart, Christopher. Poems on Several Occasions, viz., Munificence and Modesty; Female Dignity; To Lady Hussey Delaval; Verses from Catullus; After Dining with Mr. Murray; Epitaphs; &c. London, 1763, 4to.

Smith, W. Browning. Epitaph. EncyclopÆdia Brit., ninth edition, vol. viii, pp. 493-496.

Snow, J. Lyra Memorialis; Original Epitaphs, &c., with an Essay by William Wordsworth. London: Bell, 1847, 12mo.

This is a second and an enlarged edition of his Light in Darkness: Churchyard Thoughts, which was published in 1844.

Tissington, Silvester. A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions on the most Illustrious Persons of all Ages and Countries; 1857, 8vo, 530 pp.

Toldervy, William. Select Epitaphs. London: Owen, 1755, 8vo, 2 vols.

Tombs, Among the. Household Words, vol. 17, pp. 372-375.

Tombstones, Inscriptions on. Christian Remembrancer, vol. 6, pp. 421.

Trowsdale, Thomas Broadbent, F.R.H.S. A Visit to the Old Burial Ground in Castle Street, Hull. Hull: Printed and Published by J. M. Taylor, 1878, 8vo, 8 pp.

Reprinted from The Hull Miscellany.

Wake, H. T. All the Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyards of Brigham and Bridekirk, near Cockermouth, in the County of Cumberland, from 1666 to 1876. Cockermouth, 1878, 8vo.

Walker, G. A., Surgeon. Gatherings from Grave Yards, Particularly those of London: With a concise History of the Modes of Interment Among different Nations, from the earliest periods. And a Detail of dangerous and fatal results produced by the unwise and revolting custom of inhuming the Dead in the midst of the Living. London: Longman and Co.; Nottingham, J. Hicklin; 1839, 8vo, pp. xvii-258. [With an engraved title.]

Webb, T. A New Select Collection of Epitaphs: Panegyrical and Moral, Humorous, Whimsical, Satyrical, and Inscriptive. London, 1775, 12mo., 2 vols.

Weever, John. Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Ilands adiacent, with the dissolved Monasteries therein contained; their Founders, and what eminent persons have beene in the same interred; As also the Death and buriall of certaine of the Bloud Roiall, the Nobilitie, and Gentrie of these Kingdomes entombed in forraine Nations, with other matters mentioned in the insuing Title. Composed by the Travels and Studie of John Weever. Spe labor leuis. London: Printed by Tho: Harper, MDCXXXI. And are to be sold in Little Britayne by Laurence Sadler at the signe of the Golden Lion. Fol., 871 pp. [With Portrait and Engraved Title.]

Westminster Abbey, The History and Antiquities of, and Henry VII’s Chapel; their Tombs, Ancient Monuments, and Inscriptions, &c. Illustrated. London, 1856, 4to.

Wignell, J. A Collection of Original Pieces: consisting of Poems, Prologues, Epilogues, Songs, Epistles, Epitaphs, &c. London, 1762, 8vo.

Winchester Cathedral. Historical and Critical Account of, with a review of the Monuments; 1801, 8vo, 148 pp.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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