Page 16. Inscribed Monuments of the later Britons, (from Borlase's Anti- 116 17. Roman Sepulchral Monument, discovered at Bath, (from the 18. Coped Tomb, in the Temple Church, London, (from an engraving 121 19. Monument of the Twelfth Century, in Ewenny Church, Glamorganshire, (from an engraving in the Gentleman's Magazine), 20. Sepulchral Effigy, temp. Richard I. in the Temple Church, London, (from Stothard's Monumental Effigies), 124 127 74 21. Monument of Sir Robert De Vere, in Sudborough Church, North- 128 22. Effigy in Gosperton Church, Lincolnshire, temp. Henry III. (from Brass Effigy of a Priest, in Stone Church, Kent, (from Gough's 24. Monument of Edith Astley, temp. Edward I. in Hillmorton Church, Warwickshire, Monument of a Priest, in Beverley Minster, (from an engraving in Brass Effigy of Sir John de Creke, in Westly Waterless Church, 150 27. Monumental Effigy of Edward the Black Prince, (from Blore's Monumental Brass, in Westminster Abbey, of Robert Waldeby, 169 29. Monument, in Ingham Church, Norfolk, of Sir Oliver Ingham, 176 30. Monument in Meriden Church, Warwickshire, temp. Henry VI. 177 31. 32. 33. 34. Monumental Effigy, in Northleigh Church, Oxfordshire, of William 188 Brass Effigy, in Westminster Abbey, of Sir John Harpedon, temp. 199 35. Effigy, in Charwelton Church, Northamptonshire, of William 200 Page 36. Brass of a Priest in Canonical Robes, in Merton College, Oxford, 203 37. Effigy of Beatrice, Countess of Arundel, in Arundel Church, (from 205 38. Head Dresses of the Fifteenth Century, 207 39. * Canopied Monument, in Wolston Church, Warwickshire, 215 40. • Monument in Duffield Church, Derbyshire, of Sir Roger Minors, temp. Henry VIII. 216 41. Wade's Monument, in St. Michael's Church, Coventry, 230 43. Monumental Effigies, in Trinity College Chapel, Oxford, of Sir Thomas Pope and his Lady, (from Skelton's Pietas Oxoniensis), 235 Effigy of one of the Fettiplace family, in Swinbrook Church, Oxfordshire, temp. Elizabeth, (from Skelton's Antiquities of Oxfordshire), Effigy of Judge Montagu, (from Hyett's Sepulchral Memorials of 239 Monument, in Ashford Church, Kent, of Sir Thomas Smith, (from 246 49. * Monument, in Churchover Church, Warwickshire, of Charles and 247 50. Brass Effigy of Ann Sewell, in St. Michael's Church, Coventry, . 254 Monument, in St. Martin's Church, Leicester, of John Whatton Monumental Effigy, in Swinbrook Church, Oxfordshire, of Sir John 265 267 54. * Monumental Effigy, in Shuckburgh Church, Warwickshire, of Margerie Shuckburgh, Monumental Effigy, in Gloucester Cathedral, of the lady of Alder. 273 ERRATA. P. 3, for Phenicians, read Phoenicians; and passim. 52, for Abbot of Worcester, read Abbot of Evesham. British Sepulchral Antiquities, (from Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire.) a CHAPTER I. OF THE SEPULCHRAL REMAINS OF THE CELTIC AND BELGIC BRITONS. Ar a very early period, probably soon after the general dispersion of mankind, and division of the earth amongst the Noachida, (an event which took place in the days of Peleg, about 2100 years before the Christian era) the descendants of Gomer, the grandson of Noah, passed the Thracian Bosphorus, and gradually spread themselves over the various countries of Europe, still proceeding onwards towards the west, until some of their families or tribes reached the coasts of Germany and Gaul, and from thence crossed the sea into Britain. a 1. Stone Axe, or Hammer. 2. Arrow Head of Flint. 3. Flint Celt. 4. Brass Dagger. 5. Sepulchral Urn. 6. Brass Celt. 7, 8. Drinking Cups. B These Nomadic wanderers, the Aborigines of Europe, went under the general denomination of Cimmerians, or Celts; and as their progress was uninterrupted, except by natural causes, for they had no hostile armies to encounter, but merely waste and uncultivated countries to traverse, which some remained to colonize, whilst others, as the population increased, ventured forward,—we may reasonably infer, that within the space of four or five centuries from the first migrations of the Gomerites out of Asia into Europe, or about sixteen hundred years before Christ, the British Isles were inhabited. The primeval occupants were divided into tribes, and wandered from place to place in search of pasture for their flocks, on which they chiefly depended for subsistence, for they were acquainted very little with agricultural pursuits. Their arms were of the rudest description, and such as are usually met with amongst nations the most uncivilized.b Spears, or javelins, pointed with bone or flint; wooden clubs, axes or hatchets, and hammers, of flint and stone; bows, and arrows formed of reeds, with heads of bone and flint; were the only weapons they possessed, either for hunting, aggression, or defence. It was not till many centuries after the first arrival of their Celtic progenitors, that the Britons became acquainted with the method of manufacturing warlike implements of metal. This art was first imparted to them by the enterprizing Phenicians, who, having traversed the Mediterranean Sea, b Tacitus remarks of the Fenni, the most uncivilized of all the German tribes, that they led a vagrant life, without having any fixed place of abode, the skins of beasts being their only clothing; and that they depended for their chief support upon their arrows, to which, for want of iron, they prefixed a pointed bone.-A nearly similar description might have been given of the primitive Britons. |