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Inventorium Sepulchrale - An Account Of Some Antiquities Dug Up At Gilton, Kingston, Sibertswold, Barfriston, Beakesbourne, Chartham, And Crundale, In The County Of Kent, From A.D. 1757 To A.D. 1773. (Paperback)
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Inventorium Sepulchrale - An Account Of Some Antiquities Dug Up At Gilton, Kingston, Sibertswold, Barfriston, Beakesbourne, Chartham, And Crundale, In The County Of Kent, From A.D. 1757 To A.D. 1773. (Paperback)
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INVENTORIUM SEPULCHRALE - PREFACE - THE REV. BRSAN F AUSSE wrote
the first part of his Journal of Escnvations, or fizveatoriztnz
Sepulchrale, as he terms it, in the year 1757 and terminatecl it in
the year 1773, a little inore than two years before his death,
which happencc1 early in 1776. Upwarcls of three-quarters of a
century have passed away since he finished the Escavations and the
Journal and nearly a century has elapsed from the period when he
con menced them. Last year, the manuscripts and the antiquities of
which they are the history, passed illto the hands of Mr. Joseph
RSayer of Liverpool, by purchase from the ekecutors of the Rev. Dr.
Godfrey Faussett, the grandsoil of Bryan Faussett. Mr. Mayer lost
no time in arranging and throwing open to the public his important
acquisitions and he at once resolved on printing and illustrating
the manuscripts with as little delay as possible. He felt that such
a course was due both to himself and to the memory of Bryan
Faussett due to himself, because he wished to shew that it was with
no restrictive or selfish feeling he had purchased antiquities,
which the public voice and the opinion of our most eminent
antiquaries had declared to be of national importance and due to
the memory of tlle long-departed discoverer, because his Journal
proves him to have been a pains-taking and a truth-loving
investigator, and a conscientious steward of the treasures he had
brought to light. No one who rends his plain, clear, narrative of
facts, daily recorded with cautious attention to the most minute
circumstances, can doubt but that, had his life been spared, he
would himself have published the result of his successful and
praiseworthy labours. Indefault of this provision for his own fame,
the manuscript account of his discoveries is a fortunate legacy for
us, 110b, y Mr. Mayers liberality, inherit its advantages at the
same time it enables us to give R h . Faussett credit and honour,
aiid to place his name and deeds properly before thc world. But the
vicissitudes to nrhich even valuable vritings are exposed, after
the death of the author, are exemplified in the present instance,
and shew that the ready services of the printing-press, the vates
sacer of the man who has earned a reputation, cannot be dispensed
with, without injury to the memory of the departed. As the
researches of the Rev. Bryan Fanssett are now for the first time
laid before the antiquarian world, I Iia e coilsidered it one of my
duties as editor, to attempt to gratify that proper and laudable
curiosity which always proinpts the reader to n islt o k11on7
something of the author whose work is before liim. His
great-grandson, Mr. Tlloinas Godfrey Fanssett, has supplied some
particulars, which will be found in the Appendix, KO. 1, and will
be read vitli interest. To these I have added Nos. 2 to 7 from
Nicholss lllustratio zs of the Literary Ilistot. y of the
Ezj-hteentlh Century, a few letters, six of which shew Mr. Faussett
to have been an intimate friend and correspondent of the well-known
Dr. Ducarel, and afford some few details of biographical interest.
No. 4 is pleasingly indicative of a m kind and sensitive heart,
such as the family traditions have assigned him...
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