History from Marble Volume 2; V. 97 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...& yeare first above written. The same William Cuer erected the fine monument of Sir Roger Aston, at Cranford in Middlesex: for the making of which he entered into similar covenants, of which the particulars will be found in Lysons, Middlesex Parishes, 4to. 1800, p. 287, and the Gentleman's Magazine, Feb. 1800. Page 55, note K Lady Ajlethea Hcngerford. This lady was deemed the heiress of her mother Lady Isabella Sackville, daughter and coheir of Richard Earl of Dorset by Lady Anne Clifford, daughter and coheir of George Earl of Cumberland. There was an atchievemcnt in the chapel at FarleyHungerford when visited by Le Neve in 1701: and thereon Hungerford, with a label to denote the father still living, and the three quarterings of Botreaux, Mauduit, and Moels; impaled with Sackville and Clifford quarterly, the former (Sackville) being charged with a canton of Lady Isabella's paternal coat of Compton, according to the customary practice when a lady was heiress to her mother only. Page 57. The Roman Antiquities Of Bath. At a meeting of the Bath Literary Club held on the 21st Nov. 1867, the Rev. Mr. Prebendary Scarth read a Paper describing the account of Bath given by Dingley in the present volume. In regard to the Roman antiquities for which Bath has always been "famous," Mr. Scarth remarked that "Dingley authenticates those sculptures which are engraved in Dr. Guidot's work, and gives sketches of them as they actually stood in the city walls, which are evidently much nearer the truth than the fanciful figures given in Guidot. He also supplies some not recorded elsewhere." Upon the basrelief representing a naked boy holding a palm branch and torch, as supposed by Dingley, and drawn by him in p. xlvi. 61, Mr. Scarth made the following ob...