Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent, with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations..
John Weever's 1631 London antiquarian survey of English funerary monuments, tombs and dissolved monasteries, printed by Thomas Harper for a learned readership of antiquaries and gentry. The woodcut plates show effigies of knights, ladies and tomb chests with heraldic shields, drawn in a stiff, schematic manner that suits designers seeking medieval memorial imagery.
