Observations on a seal of Thomas, suffragan Bishop of Philadelphia
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Observations on a seal of Thomas, suffragan Bishop of Philadelphia
Classmark: BC Gen q/PEG
Creator(s): Pegge, Samuel (1704-1796)
Additional creator(s): Society of Antiquaries of London (Other)
Related people: Brander, Gustavus, 1720-1787; Swillington, Thomas, d.1546
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): [1785]
Language: Undetermined
Size and medium: 7, [1]p., ill
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280425
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001174159705181
Description
Thomas Swillington was appointed suffragan Bishop to John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln.
Caption title.
Probably printed in London. An identical setting of the text with reset caption title, page numbers and signatures forms p.362-368 of "Archaeologia", vol.vii, 1785. This is dated "Read April 23, 1784".
With an illustration of the seal on p.1 marked "Vol.VII. p.362".
Indexed in: Not in ESTC.
Additional description
Bound with sixteen other publications by Pegge in a volume lettered Dr. Pegge's antiquarian works . Volume contents: 1. The roman roads, 1784. -- 2. Extracts from the black book of Warwick, 1783. -- 3. An historical account of that venerable monument of antiquity, the Textus Roffensis, 1784. -- 4. Sketch of the history of Bolsover and Peak Castles, 1785, -- 5. An historical account of Beauchief Abbey, 1801. -- 6. A series of dissertations on some elegant and very valuable Anglo-Saxon remains, 1756. -- 7. An essay on the coins of Cunobelin, 1766. -- 8. The penny with the name of Rodbertus IV, [1768]. -- 9. Memoir concerning the Sac-Friars, [1776?]. -- 10. An important historical passage of Gildas amended and explained, [1778]. -- 11. An inscription in honour of Serapis, [1776?] -- 12. Observations on a seal of Thomas, [1785]. -- 13. A circumstantial detail of the battle of Lincoln, [1786]. -- 14. Derbeiesseira Romana, [1789]. -- 15. Mr. Pegge's remarks on the bones of fowls, [1776]. --
16. Some observations on the paintings in the window of Brereton Church, 1792. -- 17. Observations on the chariots of the antient Britains, [1785?]. Made-up set (one of 2 vols.), assembled for Pegge's grandson Sir Christopher Pegge by the publisher and antiquary John Nichols. A letter from Nichols to Sir Christopher Pegge, dated March 18th, 1808, is tipped in at the front of the first volume, and supplies information on the collection a fire at Nichols's warehouse apparently destroyed all the remaining stock of Pegge's works, some of the items in these 2 volumes being therefore the sole survivors (unfortunately not indentified by Nichols)
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