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A

MANUAL

FOR

THE STUDY

OF

The Sepulchral Slabs

and

Crosses

OF

THE MIDDLE AGE S.

BY THE

REV. EDWARD L. CUTTS, B.A.

LONDON,

JOHN HENRY PARKER,

377, STRAND; AND BROAD STREET, OXFORD.

M DCCC XLIX.

OXFORD:

PRINTED BY 1. SHRIMPTON.

PREFACE.

In such a work as this, accuracy in the engraved examples is of primary importance, and care has been taken to secure this as far as possible: the author is answerable for the accuracy of those marked with his initials, which have been carefully reduced from the stones themselves, or from rubbings; others are from drawings and reduced rubbings by friends upon whose correctness the author could depend; some others have been taken from engravings in Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, Lysons' Magna Brittannia, the Archæologia, Archæological Journal, &c., and in most of these cases the authority has been mentioned in the notes to the examples.

This branch of archæology has been hitherto much neglected, though it is a very interesting one, and the examples are much more numerous than is generally imagined; the number which has already come under the author's notice amounts nearly to one thousand: much doubtless yet remains to be done in it, and the author begs to state his intention of prosecuting this study, and earnestly solicits the assistance of antiquarian students; rubbings, accurate drawings, notices of grave-stones, or any information on the subject, will be highly acceptable and very thankfully received.

The author cannot conclude without acknowledging his obligations to many gentlemen who have kindly lent rubbings and drawings, and furnished other assistance to the work, and in an especial manner to Albert Way, Esq., M.A., I. H. Parker, Esq., Raphael Brandon, Esq., and J. C. Westwood, Esq., who have rendered much valuable assistance.

Westerham, Kent,
July 10, 1849.

EDWARD L. CUTTS.

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