Name Of Owner Research Articles

Picture of Old Covent Garden: Name of owner wanted

Picture of Old Covent Garden: Name of owner wanted

Notes on a Manuscript Volume of Covenanting Testimonies, Letters, and Sermons

The manuscript volume has 172 surviving leaves and is bound in leather. The names of several owners occur in different parts of the book. By far the greater part of the volume is filled with copies of covenanting sermons, letters, and dying testimonies. It is argued that they were copied in the first half of the eighteenth century or earlier. Three previously unpublished testimonies and two letters are reproduced in full.

I.—I. A Kalendar or Directory of Lincoln Use; and II. Kalendarium e Consuetudinario Monasterii de Burgo Sancti Petri

When I was essaying to collect the scattered relics of the ancient Use of Lincoln in the form of a short paper which appeared in No. 1 of the Lincoln Diocesan Gazette in May 1886, I felt it to be a special matter of regret that I was unable to point to any surviving kalendar belonging to that see. The only thing approaching a Lincoln kalendar which I had seen was a Book of Hours which Mr. Bradshaw once put into my hands, pointing out that it had been in use in the diocese of Lincoln. It was not his own property, and unfortunately I returned it to him without taking note of the name of the present owner, but I have noted its peculiarities (as “Line”) where they occur in the Index Festivitatum appended to the Sanctorale of the Sarum Breviary.

XXXVIII. Mr. Lethieullier's Observations on Sepulchral Monuments in a Letter to James West, Esq.

Having many leisure hours during my summer's residence in Gloucestershire, I employed some of them in enquiry after what matters of antiquity the country around me afforded. Among other searches, I visited many of the neighbouring parish churches, and was concerned to find in them numbers of ancient monuments quite buried in oblivion, and the intent for which they were first erected entirely frustrated. I frequently reflected that monuments were designed either to shew the gratitude of surviving friends, or to perpetuate the memory of such as had been eminent or serviceable to their country; ends in themselves laudable, and proper excitements to others to tread in the same steps; but in vain, where the tradition of the tomb is lost almost as soon as its owner's name becomes extinct; and no inscription remaining, we behold only a dumb and useless piece of stone or marble. Well indeed might Horace boast, exegi monumentum aere perennius; since it is evident his own immortal writings have already lasted beyond any monument of brass or marble which could have been erected for him.

XXXVIII. Mr. Lethieullier's Oservations on Sepulchral Monuments in a Letter to James West, Esq

Having many leisure hours during my summer's residence in Gloucestershire, I employed some of them in enquiry after what matters of antiquity the country round me afforded. Among other searches, I visited many of the neighbouring parish churches, and was concerned to find in them numbers of ancient monuments quite buried in oblivion, and the intent for which they were first erected intirely frustrated. I frequently reflected that monuments were designed either to shew the gratitude of surviving friends, or to perpetuate the memory of such as had been eminent or serviceable to their country; ends in themselves laudable, and proper excitements to others to tread in the same steps: but in vain, where the tradition of the tomb is lost almost as soon as its owner's name becomes extinct; and, no inscription remaining, we behold only a dumb and useless piece of stone or marble. Well indeed might Horace boast, exegi monunentum aere perennius; since it is evident, his own immortal writings have already lasted beyond any monument of brass or marble which could have been erected for him.