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Ancient funerall monuments within the united monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the llands adiacent with the dissolved monasteries therein contained; their founders, and what eminent persons have been in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the blood roiall, the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdoms entombed in forraine nations. A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royal progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie and communaltie, of these his Maiesties dominions. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historical obseruations, annotations, and briefe notes, extracted out of approved authors, infallible recors.lieger books, charters, rolls, old manuscripts, and collections of iudicious antiquaries. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments. Of the foundation and fall of religious houses. Of religious orders. Of the ecclesiasticall estate of England. Ano of other occurences touched upon by the way, in the whole passage of these intended labours / composed by the studie and travels of John Weever. 

(CON) In fact covers only the dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, London, and Norwich; no more published. Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of John Weever. Contains an index.||(REF) See estc.bl.uk.||(TIT) Spine title: Weever's funeral monuments; with an additional title page, engraved, "Ancient funerall monuments with in the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the ilands adiacent", signed: T. Cecill sculp.||(PRV) Contains the bookplate of Thomas Knight (1701-1781), and shelfmark E.2.3 from the 1908 Chawton catalogue, inside the front board; the endpaper has an ink inscription: 'I don[t] want this booke to - - - - - - within with my own hands, Tho. Hunt, mar:5:73', which appears to refer to the ink inscriptions at occasions throughout the book; beneath this is a further inscription of five lines of poetry in a different hand.||(BIN) Bound in tan calf, the boards have a contemporary binding and the spine has been rebound at a later date. 

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