In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious

The Project Gutenberg EBook of In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious by W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious Author: W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent Release Date: July 21, 2004 [EBook #12978] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GRAVESTONES *** Produced by Julie Barkley, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. 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. IN SEARCH OF GRAVESTONES OLD AND CURIOUS. F r o n t i s p i e c e. AN EARLY EXAMPLE AT HIGHAM. (Page 11.) CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. OLD GRAVESTONES — 1 II. THE EVOLUTION OF GRAVESTONES — 9 III. ARTISTIC GRAVESTONES — 20 IV. PROFESSIONAL GRAVESTONES — 31 V. A TYPICAL TRAMP IN KENT — 35 VI. MORE TYPICAL TRAMPS — 43 VII. EARLIER GRAVESTONES — 49 VIII. REFORM AMONG THE GRAVESTONES — 57 IX. PRESERVING THE GRAVESTONES — 62 X. OLD GRAVESTONES IN IRELAND — 78 XI. OLD GRAVESTONES IN SCOTLAND — 84 XII. OLD GRAVESTONES ABROAD — 91 XIII.