Volume 1

The antiquary's portfolio, or cabinet selection of historical & literary curiosities, on subjects principally connected with the manners, customs, and morals; civil, military, and ecclesiastical government, &c. &c. of Great Britain, during the Middle and later ages. (With notes.) / By J.S. Forsyth.

  • Forsyth, J. S.
Date:
1825
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Credit: The antiquary's portfolio, or cabinet selection of historical & literary curiosities, on subjects principally connected with the manners, customs, and morals; civil, military, and ecclesiastical government, &c. &c. of Great Britain, during the Middle and later ages. (With notes.) / By J.S. Forsyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    antiquary, however zealous and enthusiastic he may be, to rescue every thing deserving of notice from oblivion. The havoc which ignorance or contempt for the antiquities of this country made., at different times, among the fine speci- mens of architecture and sculpture, as well as among more perishable materials, is therefore less pardonable*. Among Authors quoted, and Works extracted from, in the following pages, are Accounts (ancient Parish) found at Blythburgh, Suffolk. Agard, Arthur. Aikin. Anderson. Andrews. Anglia Sacra. Ano. Reg. Joh. Asser. Vita Alfredi. Atkyns. Baker’s Hist. & Antiquities, &c. Barclay’s Eclogues. Baronius. Barrington on the Statutes. Bath. Leg. Canut. Bede. Bigland’s Observations on Paro- chial Registers. Biograpliia Britannica. Blackstone’s Commentaries. Book of Sports, as set forth by Charles I. British Bibliography. Brumpton, Benedict. Abbas. Buchanan’s History of Scotland. Cambden’s Britannica. Carew’s Account of Cornwall. Caxton’s additions to the Poly- chronicon. Chaucer’s Prologues. Chron. Pret. Collins’ Diary. Peerage. Cotton’s Records. Curiosities of Literature. D’Eves, Sir Simon. Doddridge’s English Lawyer. , Sir-John. Du Cange’s Glossary. Dugdale. Ealmer, Hist. Novel*. Elmes’ Life of Wren. Enquiry into the Origin of Festi- vals, by the Rev. Mr. Whitaker. Evelyn’s Journal. Feltham’s Tour. Forest Charter of An. 42 Hen. III. Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliae. Fountainhall’s (Lord) Diary. Fox. * In Blomefield’s Norfolk, (vol.viii. p. 501,) we are informed, that a man was paid five shillings for defacing superstitious epitaphs. To this we may add, that within a little time, part of the fine monu- mental brass of Robert Braunche, between his two wives, in the church of St. Margaret, at Lynn, was lately sold by a woman for five shil- lings, and consigned to the melting pot. Another beautiful brass, image in the same church, over Attelath, is entirely destroyed. The fine brass of Sir Hugh Hastings, at Elsing, in Norfolk, has experienced similar mutilations, and exhibits now very small remains of its original beauty.