The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated : from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes : beautified with maps, prospects, and portraictures

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by  Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686

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THE
ANTIQUITIES
-OF
WARWICKSHIRE
ILLUSTRATED;
From Records Leiger-Books Ma-
, ,
Charters Evidences
jlufcripts
, ,
Tombes
and Armes:
,
BEAUTIFIED
With Maps Profpecis and Portraidures
,
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WILLIAM VVgDALE.
By
MANTUAN,
QunBa aperkfecreta dies ex tempore verum
,
J^afcitur, (^ veniens letas abfcondita faudit.
&
LONDON,
Printed by Thomas WVarren in the year of our Lord
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God M. C. LVI.
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MY HONOURED
TO FRIENDS
THEGENTRIEOF
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W \WI
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A
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H AT
all things perifti by Age and
time or fome unhappy accidents
3 , is
a thing not to be denied the confi-
;
deration whereof, hath not a
little
me
incited to the undertaking ofthis
prefenc work; which , after no fmall
coft and pains being thus finifhed,
,
I offer unto you my Noble Coun-
triemen, as the moft proper Perfons^
to wlium ii cciu be ^leieiiicU, wiierein you will fee very much
ofyour worthy Anceftors to whofe memory have
, I ere(5led
it , as a S\donumentall Tillar , and to (hew in what Honour
they lived in thofe flourifhing Ages paft.
in this kind , or not much different , have divers perfons
in Forrein parts very learnedly written;fome whereof have
5 I
my And
noted in Treface : I could wifh that there were more
that would adventure in the like manner for the reft of the
Counties of this Nation confidering how acceptable thofe
,
are , which others have already performed, though but brief-
ly vi^, the Terambulation of K^nt^ by <S\dr, Lambard The
; :
iturvey of Cormval! , by Afr, Carey q{ Anthonie : The T>efcri-
ption o{LeiceJlerJhie ^hv Adr. "Burton and the Antiquities o^
;
Canterbury^ by my fpeciall friend Air William Somner To
:
A
which I may adde fhort view oS.Staffordfhire^^ Air.Samf-
fon Erclfm\e(\3itc o[Sandon in that Couatie)not yet publifht-
a Gentleman whofe memorie is very precious in thofe parts for
his great knowledge in Antiquities.
What
I have faid ofour VVarmcl^^fhire Families,is whil'ft
a they
5
The
Epijlle T>edicatorie.
they have been feated in the Countie; and, where I could,
pointing briefly at their extradions : for to have gone farther
my
would have been both improper as out of bounds and
,
,
impoflible for me to effedt , as may well be deemed by thofc
that underftand what a taske it is to find out authorities for the
aflerting ofno more than one Defcent. Gr. at is the commen-
mod
dation that is juftly due to of you , for promoting this
publique work by fo noble a freedom to me in the fight of
^
yourantient Charters and Evidences,which have afforded al-
fo many notable difcoveries in relation to others afwell as your
felves : Nor is it a little honour you deferve for that pious
,
though due refped:, (hewed to your dead Ancefi:ors3by repre-
fenting to the world a view oftheir Tonibes, and in fome fort
preferving thofe Monuments from that fate which Time^ if
,
not contingent mifchief, might expofe them to.
mud
But principally 1 acknowledge the fignall furthe-
rance which this Work hath received by my much honou-
,
red Friend Sir Simon Archer Knight , a perfon indeed natural-
ly qualified with a great affedion to Antiquities, and with no
fmali pains and charge a diligent Gatherer and preferver of
,
very many choice iviciiiw*r«xi|.*o ^ ^^A ^*u^r. mfifi^c _ -n^Vipr^nf i
have made fpeciall ufe as almoA every page in the Book will
,
manifeft.
That this my endeavour will have a candid acceptance , I
no whit doubt my principall ayme having been by fetting
; ,
before you the noble and eminent Aa:ions of your worthy
Anceftors , to incite the prefent and future ages to a vertuous
imitation ofthem;the continued welfare^and lading honour of
your felves and hopefull pofterity , being the unfeigned
willies of
,
Your mod devoted and
humble fervant
William T>ugdale.