Essex Prints

45x31 cm

Vol.II Plate 7.
In this pate are delineated,
I. An antient WOODEN CHURCH at Greensted in Essex.
II. The SHRINE of S^t. EDMUND the King and Martyr.
III. The SEAL of the ABBOT of S^t. Edmund's Bury in Suffolk.
^2' In Biblioth,Lambethan ^2' Dugdale Monast. Anglic.V.I.p.293. ^3' Life of K.Edmund, MS. ^4' Repertor.V.II.p.288,449.
Impens. Soc. Antiq. Lond.


Copper engraving published in Vetusta Monumenta by the Society of Antiquaries. London. from 1718. Plates were issued individually and first collected into a bound volume of the first seventy engravings in 1747 exapnding to seven volumes by 1906.

This plate appeared in Vol II in 1789 and depicts three subjects relating to the East Anglian King, St. Edmund the Matyr (reigned 855-869).

Trimmed and window pasted to paper, two vertical folds with closed tears at lower folds affecting text.