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Br4783.8

LARVARD COLLEG

MAR 16 1916

LIBRARY

Treat fund

Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press

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MY FATHER

NOW FOR FORTY-EIGHT YEARS

INCUMBENT OF CHELSEA

OLD CHURCH

AUTHOR'S NOTE

WITH the exception of a pamphlet printed in Chelsea in 1895, no monograph on the Old Church has yet been published. In the following pages, therefore, I have attempted such an account as may be both of interest to the general reader and of service to the antiquary and although I have omitted a great deal of interesting matter, as being beyond the compass of a readable book, I have spared no pains in verifying, as far as possible, whatever information is here printed.

Many notices of the Church and its monuments have, however, appeared in topographical works, from which I have taken as much as seemed necessary for my purpose. The first of these books is "Ancient Funeral Monuments," by John Weever, published in 1631. Only the tombs of the Brays and Sir Thomas More are mentioned by Weever; though in his manuscript, which is in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, the inscriptions of Thomas Lawrence, the Duchess of Northumberland, and Lady Dacre are included.

The next account is that of John Bowack, contained in the "Antiquities of Middlesex," published in 1705. Bowack resided in Chelsea, and his notes, so far as they go, are of considerable value. But it was not until 1795 that anything like a complete account of the Church was published, namely, in Lysons' "Environs." Brief as this is, it is unquestionably the most valuable, every word of it being carefully authenticated.

Thomas Faulkner drew largely from Lysons in his "History of Chelsea," published in 1810, amplified in a second edition in 1829;

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