Gents Mag 1830 part 1 p.498

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1830 part 1 p.498
monument   Edmond Nevill   Earl of Westmorland
	Monument, Earl of Westmorland In an article relating a walk from Wanstead, Essex:- In a description of the church at East Ham, Essex:- ... ... ... On the opposite [north] of the altar is one of those interesting monuments, not infrequently to be seen in our parochial churches, but which often unexpectedly present themselves to the ardent topographer, in requital of his toils,†
	† The vexatious annoyances to which the topographer was subjected in the prosecution of his labours in the days of the first James are thus alluded to by old Weever, in his "Discourse on Funeral Monuments;" and the writer of these crudities can bear witness to the teasing interruptions sometimes encountered even at the present time, by the disciples of John Leland; although hitherto he has escaped the mortification of affording amusement to the village urchins by an exhibition of his meagre visage in the cage, or resting his weary legs in the stocks. "Having found," says Weever, "one or two ancient funeral inscriptions, or obliterated sculptures, in this or that parish church, I have ridden to ten parish churches distant from that, and not found one. Besides I have been taken up in divers churches by the churchwardens of the parish, and not suffered to write the epitaphs, or take view of the monuments as much as I desired."
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