BOOKS Printed for, and Sold by NEWBERY and ALMON's Univerfal Traveller, 2 Vols. Folio 3 SAL Rolt's Dictionary of Trade and Commerce Martin's New Principles of Geography and Na- } o Vattell's Law of Nations, Quarto 1. S. d. O.O I 12 O I O 10 6 0 12 0 0 10 6 } O 76 } Campbell's Lives of the Admirals, &c. 4 Vols. 31 40 8vo. Martin's Philofophia Britannica, 3 Vols. Formey's Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, 2 Vols. The Student, or Oxford and Cambridge Mif- Porny's Elements of Heraldy I o 18 0 I 19 0 O 12 O 90 90 } 8 0 O 12 O 0 60 Brookes's General Gazetteer, or Compendious 30 70 Brookes's Introduction to Phyfic and Surgery Foreign Effays on Agriculture and Arts Sharp's fecond Argument in Defence of Chriftianity Venn's complete Duty of Man The Truth of the Christian Religion vindicated o Reeves's Farriery, in Theory and Practife A N Historical Description OF WESTMINSTER-ABBEY, ITS MONUMENTS and CURIOSITIES. CONTAINING, r. An Account of its Foun- 5. Characters, Anecdotes, enclosed Chapels, or open Parts of this Abbey. 6. Obfervations on the Beauty and Propriety of the refpective Monuments. 7. A particular Defcription of the Building, Beautifying, and endowing Henry the VIIth's Chapel, with the Ornaments belonging to it. 8. A general View of the Cloifters; with Copies of two remarkable Infcriptions there. 9. Tranflations of the Hebrew, Ethiopic and Greek Epitaphs in this Church, particularly thofe on the Tombs of Sir Samuel Morland's two Wives, never before attempted. Defigned as a Guide to Strangers in viewing this venerable Pile, and to point out to them the most valuable Remains of Antiquity contained therein, as well as the Beauties of modern Statuaries. Note, This is the only perfect Account of the Monuments in Weftminster-Abbey hitherto published. LONDON: Printed for J. NEWBERY, at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1767. Price One Shilling. THE PREFA C E. Work of this Kind needs no Apology. Let it fuffice to fay, that Men of the greatest Learning have employed their Time ufefully in collecting from fuch Remains of Antiquity as are here preferved, Hiftorical Facts that were no otherwise to be obtained; and for want of which Perfons have been frequently connected with Actions they had no Relation to, Events have been misplaced, and the true Order of Things confounded. The little Regard the latter Hiftorians of our own Nation have paid to thefe Memorials, is perhaps one Reafon why their Labours appear imperfect, and why the Authors themfelves, for the most Part, out-live the Reputation of their Works. Indeed, it is a tedious, a difficult, and often an impoffible Tafk, to have. Recourfe to thofe Marble Records that are every where to be found diffused through this great Kingdom; but when all that are worthy of Notice in fo confiderable a Repofitory as Westminster-Abbey are collected together in one fmall Book, it will be an unpardonable Neglect not to make a proper Ufe of it. If it shall appear, upon Comparison of these few Sheets, that Perfons who have had the most confiderable Share in the Tranfactions of the Times in which they lized, have been but just named by our Hiftorians, while athers of lefs Note have been magnified beyond their true A 2 Merit Merit; that Actions have been ascribed to one, that were performed by another; and that many Things are reported in general, which ought to have been attributed to particular Perfons or Families, the Utility of this Work will then be apparent, and a Road pointed out, by which the Errors of our Hiftorians may be corrected, their Defects fupplied, and Justice done to the Memories of Many who have eminently distinguished themfelves in the Service of their Country. But not to dwell on this Advantage only, when there are others of no fmall Importance, refulting from it: Strangers, who visit Westminster-Abbey, will find their Account in the Perufal of this Book: The little Time they are allowed in furveying the enclosed Chapels, may be more usefully employed by Means of it; and their Pains rewarded by the Recollection of Things worthy to be remembered; the Unlearned will be enabled by it to converfe with the Monuments of the Dead, with the fame Pleasure as the Learned; and those who have never feen, nor are ever likely to fee this ftately Edifice, may form fome Idea of its Form, Magnificence, and Furniture, by the Account here given of it. Add to all thefe, the Contemplation of the Things herein recorded in a religious Senfe; for, as the great Mr. Addifon obferves, when we read the Dates of the Tombs of fome that died Yesterday, and fome fix hundred Years ago, we cannot help confidering that great Day, when we fhall all of us be Cotemporaries, and make our Appearance before one awful Judge together. OF |