The antiquities of Canterbury. Or a survey of that ancient citie, with the suburbs, and cathedrall Containing principally matters of antiquity in them all. Collected chiefly from old manuscripts, lieger-bookes, and other like records, for the most part, never as yet printed. With an appendix here annexed: wherein (for better satisfaction to the learned) the manuscripts, and records of chiefest consequence, are faithfully exhibited. All (for the honour of that ancient metropolis, and his good affection to antiquities) sought out and published by the industry, and goodwill of William Somner.
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The antiquities of Canterbury. Or a survey of that ancient citie, with the suburbs, and cathedrall Containing principally matters of antiquity in them all. Collected chiefly from old manuscripts, lieger-bookes, and other like records, for the most part, never as yet printed. With an appendix here annexed: wherein (for better satisfaction to the learned) the manuscripts, and records of chiefest consequence, are faithfully exhibited. All (for the honour of that ancient metropolis, and his good affection to antiquities) sought out and published by the industry, and goodwill of William Somner.
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Somner, William, 1598-1669.
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London :: printed by I[ohn] L[egat] for Richard Thrale, and are to be sold at his shop at Pauls-Gate at the signe of the Crosse-Keyes,
1640.
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"The antiquities of Canterbury. Or a survey of that ancient citie, with the suburbs, and cathedrall Containing principally matters of antiquity in them all. Collected chiefly from old manuscripts, lieger-bookes, and other like records, for the most part, never as yet printed. With an appendix here annexed: wherein (for better satisfaction to the learned) the manuscripts, and records of chiefest consequence, are faithfully exhibited. All (for the honour of that ancient metropolis, and his good affection to antiquities) sought out and published by the industry, and goodwill of William Somner." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12598.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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Sub hoc marmore jacent corpora Willielmi Septvans militis,* 1.1qui obiit quarto die mensis Martii Anno Dom. 1448. & Elisabe∣thae uxoris ejus filiae Iohannis Peche militis, quae obiit 28. Martii. sequen' quorum animabus propitietur Deus.
Sum quod eris, volui quod vis, credens quasi credisVivere fortè diu, mox ruo morte specu.Cessi quo nescis, nec quomodo, quando sequeris,Hinc simul in coelis ut simus quoque preceris.
This family of the Septvans, or de septem vannis, a long time together flourished in these parts. Molond in Ash was a seat of theirs, where in one of the windowes, this mot∣to or impresse, properly, pertinently and most significantly alluding to their coat, is found. Diss••pabo inimicos Regis mei ut paleam. Many of the family lie inter'd in Ash-church. And of the name one, a Knight Templar he was as it seems by the crosse-legged posture of his effigies on the grave-stone, hath a monument in the Chancell of Chartham Church. He was one I suppose of the Septvans of Milton, anciently a Chapell to Chartham. In callem regredior.