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Epitaphs - Scotland - Early works to 1800

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    An theater of mortality or, the illustrious inscriptions extant upon the several monuments, erected over the dead bodies, (of the sometime Honourable Persons) buried within the Gray-Friars church-yard; and other churches and burial-places within the city of Edinburgh and suburbs: collected and Englishe by R. Monteith, M.A.

    Monteith, Robert, active 1660-1713 | Date: MDCCIV; [1714]
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    A select collection of epitaphs carefully collected from the tombstones of the most eminent personages in England, Scotland and Ireland. To which are added many That are celebrated for their Oddity and Quaintness of Expression.

    Kill-Care. | Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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    An theater of mortality or, a further collection of funeral-inscriptions over Scotland; gathered from Edinburgh, Dundee, ... and several other places elsewhere; all Englished by the publisher: Whereto are subjoined inscriptions upon the Passion ... By Robert Monteith.

    Monteith, Robert, active 1660-1713 | Date: 1713

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