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Article MEMOIR OF ELIAS ASHMOLE. ← Page 5 of 5
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Memoir Of Elias Ashmole.
beth Church , the following being the inscription on the monument erected to his memory : — Hie jacet Inclytus Hie et Eruditissimus ELIAS ASHMOLE , Leitchfeldensis , Armiger ,
inter alia in Republic * Muneva , Tributi in Cerevitias Contra Eotulator , Faacialis autem WINDSORIENSIS titnlo * per annos plurimus dignatus , Qui post duo connubia in Uxorem duxit tertiam
ELIZABETHAN JULIELJII DTJGDALE Militis , Garten ' s Principalis Eegis Armoruub filiam ; Mortem obiit 18 Maii , 1692 , Anno iEtatis 76 ,
Sed durante MUSODO Ashmoleano Oxon . Nunquam moriturus . According to the memoirs in the " Antiquities of Berkshire " he is said to have bequeathed to the University of Oxford his library , " which consisted of one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight
books , of which six hundred and twenty Avere manuscripts , and of them three hundred and eleven folios relating chiefly to English history , heraldry , astronomy , and chemistry , with a great variety of pamphlets , part of which had been sorted by himself , and the rest are methodised since , and a double catalogue made , one classical ,
according to their various subjects , and another alphabetical . " He also bequeathed the gold chains and medals of Avhich a description has just been given .
I have enumerated the works by Avhich he is best kuoAvn , but in addition must be mentioned " The Arms , Epitaphs , & c , in some Churches and Houses in Staffordshire , " compiled when accompanying Sir W . Dugdale in his visitation , and " The Arms , EpitajDhs , Inscriptions , & c , in Cheshire , Shropshire , Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire , "
together with a work in MS ., and spoken by the author of the memoir already alluded to , as a " Description of the Medals of Illustrious Families and Roman Emperors , jn-eserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxfordshire , " finished in 1659 and presented to the Public Library in Oxford in 1666 , in three A * O 1 S . fob , as it was fitted for the press .
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Memoir Of Elias Ashmole.
beth Church , the following being the inscription on the monument erected to his memory : — Hie jacet Inclytus Hie et Eruditissimus ELIAS ASHMOLE , Leitchfeldensis , Armiger ,
inter alia in Republic * Muneva , Tributi in Cerevitias Contra Eotulator , Faacialis autem WINDSORIENSIS titnlo * per annos plurimus dignatus , Qui post duo connubia in Uxorem duxit tertiam
ELIZABETHAN JULIELJII DTJGDALE Militis , Garten ' s Principalis Eegis Armoruub filiam ; Mortem obiit 18 Maii , 1692 , Anno iEtatis 76 ,
Sed durante MUSODO Ashmoleano Oxon . Nunquam moriturus . According to the memoirs in the " Antiquities of Berkshire " he is said to have bequeathed to the University of Oxford his library , " which consisted of one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight
books , of which six hundred and twenty Avere manuscripts , and of them three hundred and eleven folios relating chiefly to English history , heraldry , astronomy , and chemistry , with a great variety of pamphlets , part of which had been sorted by himself , and the rest are methodised since , and a double catalogue made , one classical ,
according to their various subjects , and another alphabetical . " He also bequeathed the gold chains and medals of Avhich a description has just been given .
I have enumerated the works by Avhich he is best kuoAvn , but in addition must be mentioned " The Arms , Epitaphs , & c , in some Churches and Houses in Staffordshire , " compiled when accompanying Sir W . Dugdale in his visitation , and " The Arms , EpitajDhs , Inscriptions , & c , in Cheshire , Shropshire , Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire , "
together with a work in MS ., and spoken by the author of the memoir already alluded to , as a " Description of the Medals of Illustrious Families and Roman Emperors , jn-eserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxfordshire , " finished in 1659 and presented to the Public Library in Oxford in 1666 , in three A * O 1 S . fob , as it was fitted for the press .