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All in pencil and much illegible or indecipherable; lacks binding. Churches/places visited: Herne (?); Bischington; St. Nich. At Wade; Charing (?); Biddenden (May 1) (page 33): Bonylton (?) under Blean (?); Ospringe; Lynstead (?); St. Margaret's (London ?) (page 59); St. Michaels; St. Paul's; Holy Cross; St. Martin's Canterbury; Elmstone; Burfield (?); Hambleden' Bisham; Hitcham; Note on a Mausoleum in Bedfordshire (page 108); BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES; cure (?); (page 116); BOOK REVERSES (page 127); Chershurst (?) (7.6.33); BOOK REVERSES; Waltham Abbey (page 133); Theydon Mount; Theydon Garnon (page 150); Epping-Old Church; Hempstead; Steeple Bumpstead (page 170); Great Bardfield; Stebbing; Gr(eat?) Canfield (page 190); BLANK PAGES; Notes from Sloane Manuscripts; BOOK REVERSES; BLANK PAGES; List of Masons? (page 196-197); Further extracts from Sloane Manuscripts; BOOK REVERSES; Notes on repairs to Esdaile Home (page 206).
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Contains research material for the history including: Inventory of Church Goods dated 1595 - 3 pages from British Museum references (typescript) Notes on 1466 'Company's Tapestry' on St. Martin 'as recorded in a Print' (typescript) Notes on church (manuscript) Rare Book Catalogue of 1942 with refs to St. Martin's
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Much of this book is scarcely legible, and seems to consist of research notes on the Roubiliac family and on commissions by year (from 1742 on). Also church registers at St. Martin's and of "Foreign Churches at Somerset House" (both in London).
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Churches/places visited: Notes; St. John's Church Stamford (page 6); Hendon Parish Church; Drawings; Hendon Park Church (page 14); Drawings of churches, village maps, men's heads (largely imaginary).
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Appears to be 6 small notebooks, largely in Edmund Esdaile's handwriting; Book F could be Katharine Esdaile. Notebook A "Lincs, with John Todhunter" (1934): Places Visited; Long Sutton (11.vii.1934); Gedney; Howell; Tattersall (page 6); Horncastle; Carstone?; Broughton Notebook B: Places Visited: Llanfair Talmararn, N. Wales; St. George's Windsor Notebook C (missing page 1?): Places Visited: Possibly Middle or Inner Temple, London – page 1 is missing; Badminton Notebook D: Places Visited: Arminchampton (?) (19.v.1934); Bishop's Cleave; Ellestone Notebook E: Places Visited: Dalham, Suffolk – St. Martin's;Dorney, Bucks Notebook F: Places Visited: Swithland; Rothlen; Leicester Cathedral (St. Martin's); Finchley; Bromley (page 23); West Ham; Chislehurst; Shoreham, Kent; Oxford; St. Decumans; N. Petherton (?) (Aug. 16) (page 57); Bridgwater; Bishop's Lydeard (?); Overton; Wrexbury, Cheshire; Nantwich; Wroxeter (page 84); Acton; Morton Say; Moreton Corbet; Oswestry; Llanyblodwelin, Montgomery, Wales; Tonbridge, (separate entry on blue paper).
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Places visited – Chatham, "London & Its Environs" (page 4), Eltham Parish Church, Stroud Parish Church, Haresfield Glos (page 10), Bristol-Cathedral (April 23, 1923) (page 11), - All Saints, Colston Monument, Worcester Cathedral, Hanbury (page 24), Blockley, St. Peter's Droitwich, Bedley, Blockley (page 35), Bath Abbey, Shalford, Lambeth (page 45), ?Handel, Redhill (1923) (page 48), Reigate (August 1923), Notes (pages 61-65), Tottenham (page 71), Leyton (page 75), Flaxman, "John Kennedy's History of Leyton" (1890)(page 85), "St. Martin-in-the-Fields Registers" (page 92), Westminster Abbey (page 96), West Ham. Book reverses, Notes, "Garrick (?) Sale" (page 113), notes on sculptors (pages 115-125).
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