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A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Litchfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, Peterborough, Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Exeter, St. Davids, Landaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph : Containing an history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions; endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages. Dates of consecration, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epitaphs of the bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, subdeans, archdeacons, and prebendaries, in every stall belonging to them : With an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese ; distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries ; to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them, and to what religious houses appropriated : The whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see, old wills, records in the tower, and rolls chapel : and illustrated with thirty-two curious draughts of the ichnographies, uprights, and other prospects of these cathedrals ; newly taken to rectify the erroneous representations of them in the Monasticon and other authors. In three volumes (v.1 & 2)

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Title: A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Litchfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, Peterborough, Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Exeter, St. Davids, Landaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph : Containing an history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions; endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages. Dates of consecration, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epitaphs of the bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, subdeans, archdeacons, and prebendaries, in every stall belonging to them : With an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese ; distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries ; to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them, and to what religious houses appropriated : The whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see, old wills, records in the tower, and rolls chapel : and illustrated with thirty-two curious draughts of the ichnographies, uprights, and other prospects of these cathedrals ; newly taken to rectify the erroneous representations of them in the Monasticon and other authors. In three volumes (v.1 & 2)

Other titles: Willis cathedrals

Level: Item

Classmark: YAS 1142

Creator(s): Willis, Browne (1682-1760)

Additional creator(s): Osborne, Thomas (1767) (Bookseller); Bacon, Thomas (1755) (Bookseller); Harris, John (1680-1740) (Engraver); Burghers, M (Engraver); Willis, Browne (1682-1760) (Other); Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686) (Other)

Publisher: Printed for T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, and T. Bacon in Dublin

Publication city: London

Date(s): MDCCXLII [1742]

Language: English

Size and medium: 3 volumes in 2 (viii, 894; 4 unnumbered pages, iv, 592 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 232 pages), folded plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/498983

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010716399705181

Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society

Description

Engraved plates are folded; some signed: "M. Burghers sculp." ; "J. Harris sculp."


Volume 3 includes "Parochiale Anglicanum" ([10], 232 p. at end) and has separate titlepage, pagination and register.


The "Parochiale Anglicanum" originally published in 1733, follows main text of v.3 and has special added title page reading: "Parochiale Anglicanum, or, The names of all the churches and chapels within the dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Exeter, St. Davids, Landaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph... London : Printed for R. Gosling ..., 1733."


A reissue of the sheets of "A survey of the cathedrals..." which were printed for R. Gosling in 1727-30, with new titlepages ; "Parochiale Anglicanum" is also a reissue of sheets printed for R. Gosling in 1733. Cf. ESTC(RLIN).


Dedication "To the Honourable Alexander Denton" is on p. [v]-viii of v.1 (name not traced).


Indexes: vols 1 & 2 : p. 845-894; v. 3 : p. 555-592.


Indexed in: ESTC,


Indexed in: ESTC,

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