Suchergebnisse - Warburton, John 1682-1759

London and Middlesex illustrated: by a true and explicit account of the names, residence, genealogy, and coat armour of the nobility, principal merchants, and other eminent families, Trading within The Precincts of this most opulent City and County: (the Eye of the Universe:) all Blazon'd in their proper Colours, With References thereunto; shewing, In what Manuscript Books, or other original Records of the Herald's Office, the Right of each Person respectively may be found. Now first published. In Justification of the Subscribers, and others, who have been Encouragers of the new Map of London and Middlesex, whose Arms are engraved therein: And at the same Time to obviate that symbolical or heraldrical Mystery (so industriously inculcated by some Heralds) that Trade, and Gentility, are incompatable, until rectified in Blood by the Sovereign Touch of Garter King of Arms's Scepter. By John Warburton, Esq; Somerset Herald, F. R. S. Spe labor levis

Proposals for publishing by subscription. A new, large, beautiful and most correct map of Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire, (and the rest of the counties in England and Wales) by an actual survey and dimensuration: with the coats of arms and seats of the nobility and gentry, as in those or Yorkshire and Northumberland already published by John Warburton Esq; Somerset Herald at Arms and F.R.S

Vallum Romanum: or, the history and antiquities of the Roman wall, commonly called the Picts wall, in Cumberland and Northumberland, built by Hadrian and Severus, the Roman Emperors, Seventy Miles in Length, to keep out the Northern picts and scots. In three books. I. Contains the ancient State of the wall, with an Account of the Legionary and Auxiliary Forces employed here in building of it; and the eighteen Cities or Stationary Towns standing thereon, called the Stations per Lincam Valli, with eighty-one Castles, and three Hundred and sixteen Forts, still visible. II. Contains a large Account of the present State of the Walls, and Military Roads, more particularly that now re-edifying at a National Expence, for the Passage of Troops and Carriages from Carlisle to Newcastle upon Tyne. III. Contains a compleat Collection of the Roman Inscriptions and Sculptures, which have hitherto been discovered on or near the Wall, with the Letters engraved in their proper Shape, and proportionate Size, and the Reading thereof explained in Words at Length. As also an historical Account of them, with explanatory and critical Observations. Collected and abstracted from all Writers on the same Subject, as an Inducement to the young Nobility and Gentry of Great-Britain, to make the Tour of their native Country, before they visit foreign Parts. To which are added, Two Letters from the late Hon. and Learned Roger Gale, to the Compiler, relating to Roman Antiquities in the North of England. The Whole illustrated with a Map of the Walls, Military Ways, and Stations, laid down by a new Geometrical Survey, and near two Hundred other Sculptures on Copper-Plates. By John Warburton, Esq; Somerset Herald, and F. R. S