To the natives of the parish of St Giles's Cripplegate, London ... [graphic]

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Title: To the natives of the parish of St Giles's Cripplegate, London ... [graphic]
Alternative Title: Sir, you are desired to meet the rest of your parishioners on [blank] the [blank] of [blank] at [blank]
Creator: Saint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
Contributor: Sturt, John, 1658-1730, printmaker.
Published / Created: [ca. 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: The Church stewards
Abstract: An invitation to the ancient ceremony of beating the bounds, with a large view of St. Giles's from the south (figures include a strolling couple, a playing boy, and a cripple with his dog) and a vignette of the church. The form has blanks left for the signatures of the stewards as well as the date (day, month, and the two numbers for the decade) and place of dining to be written in by hand
Description: Title from first lines of text etched below image.
Date of publication based on the manuscript signatures of the churchwardens and overseers, which are dated 1756-1757.
Text below title begins: Sir, you are desired to meet the rest of your parishioners on [blank] the [blank] of [blank] at [blank] ...
At top of plate, the arms of Sir Benjamin Maddow and the text: Ex dono Benj. Maddox Barrti. June 1709.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three edges.
Provenance: Bernard Quaritch; July 2015.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 20.5 cm
Language: English

Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Etchings England London 1797
Blank forms
Invitations
Material: etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): London (England)
England
London.
Subject (Name): Saint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
Subject (Topic): Social life and customs
Rites and ceremonies
Subjects: Saint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
London (England) > Social life and customs
Rites and ceremonies > England > London
18th century
England > London > 1797

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