NOTE1851
Record of Existing Monuments
By EDW. PEACOCK, JUN. (Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton Lindsey)
I have some time since read your remarks in Vol. iii., p. 14. of "Notes and Queries," on the Rev. J. Hewett's *Monumentarum* of Exeter Cathedral, and intend in a short time to follow the advice you have there given to "superabundant brass-rubbers," of copying the inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the hundred of Manley. The plan I intend to pursue is, to copy in full every inscription of an earlier date than 1750; also, all more modern ones which are in any way remarkable as relating to distinguished persons, or containing any peculiarity worthy of note. The rest I shall reduce in…
Topics: Monument Inscriptions, Genealogy, Historical Documentation
Locations: Exeter Cathedral, Manley, British Museum, England