IN SEARCH OF
GRAVESTONES
OLD AND CURIOUS.


With One Hundred and Two Illustrations


BY
W. T. VINCENT,
PRESIDENT OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT ANTIQUARIAN    SOCIETY;
AUTHOR OF "THE RECORDS OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT,"
ETC., ETC.


LONDON:
MITCHELL & HUGHES, 140, WARDOUR STREET.
1896.


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IN SEARCH OF
GRAVESTONES
OLD AND CURIOUS.


Frontispiece.
AN EARLY EXAMPLE AT HIGHAM.
AN EARLY EXAMPLE AT HIGHAM. (Page    11.)


CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
  1. OLD GRAVESTONES — 1
  2. THE EVOLUTION OF GRAVESTONES —        9
  3. ARTISTIC GRAVESTONES —        20
  4. PROFESSIONAL GRAVESTONES —        31
  5. A TYPICAL TRAMP IN KENT —        35
  6. MORE TYPICAL TRAMPS —        43
  7. EARLIER GRAVESTONES —        49
  8. REFORM AMONG THE GRAVESTONES —        57
  9. PRESERVING THE GRAVESTONES —        62
  10. OLD GRAVESTONES IN IRELAND —        78
  11. OLD GRAVESTONES IN SCOTLAND —        84
  12. OLD GRAVESTONES ABROAD —        91
  13. VERY OLD GRAVESTONES —        97
  14. THE REGULATION OF GRAVESTONES        — 105
INDEX 111


TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
EARL STANHOPE, F.S.A.,
LORD LIEUTENANT OF KENT,
PRESIDENT OF THE KENT ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY,
ETC.,


THIS COLLECTION OF
OLD AND CURIOUS GRAVESTONES
IS BY SPECIAL PERMISSION
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.




ILLUSTRATIONS OF GRAVESTONES.
AN EARLY EXAMPLE AT    HIGHAM
1 NEWHAVEN
2 NEWHAVEN
3 WIDCOMBE
4 NEWHAVEN
5 LEWES
6 PLUMSTEAD
7 DARTFORD
8 DARTFORD
9 FRANKFORT
10 EAST    WICK                        
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