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• Who are the English? (D. Bogue, 1881), by James Bonwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• The green roads of England. (Methuen & Co., 1927), by R. Hippisley Cox (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Stukeley: Science, Religion, and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England (c2002), by David Boyd Haycock (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)

• Chartham news: or A brief relation of some strange bones there lately digged up in some grounds of Mr. John Somner's, of Canterbury: written by his brother, Mr. William Somner, late auditor of Christ Church Canterbury, and register of the archbishops court, there; before his death. (London : printed for T. Garthwait;, MDCLXIX. [1669]), by William Somner (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Archaeologia Cantiana (partial serial archives)

• Archaeologia Cantiana (partial serial archives)

• Collectanea Cantiana: or, Archaeological Researches in the Neighbourhood of Sittingbourne, and Other Parts of Kent (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1893), by George Payne (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Catalogue of engraved portraits, topographical drawings and prints, coins, gems, autographs, antiquites ... exhibited at the opening of the New library and museum of the Corporation of London, Nov. 1872 ... with an historical account ... ([Print. by Blades], 1872), by William Henry Overall and City of London (England). Corporation. Select Committee for the Erection of a Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)
• The London burial grounds. Notes on their history from the earliest times to the present day ... (Macmillan and co., 1896), by Basil Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated Guide to Kensal Green Cemetery (C. & E. Layton, 1873), by William Justyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gatherings from grave yards; particularly those of London: with a concise history of the modes of interment among different nations, from the earliest periods. And a detail of dangerous and fatal results produced by the unwise and revolting custom of inhuming the dead in the midst of the living. (Messrs. Longman and Company;, 1839), by George Alfred Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bunhill memorials : sacred reminiscences of three hundred ministers and other persons of note, who are buried in Bunhill fields, of every denomination ; with the inscriptions on their tombs and gravestones, and other historical information respecting them, from authentic sources. (©[date], 1848), by J. A. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London, by John Simon (Gutenberg ebook)

• The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Isabella M. Holmes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Design for a chapel & catacombs, with entrance gates & lodges, proposed to be erected at Kensall Green, for the General Cemetery Company. (Printed by C. Hullmandel, 1832), by Henry Edward Kendall and Kensal Green Cemetery. London (page images at HathiTrust)

• An account of excavations on the site of Roman buildings at Keston, near Bromley, Kent. (Printed by J.B. Nichols, 1855), by George R. Corner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The antiquities of St. Peters, or the abbey church of Westminster : containing all the inscriptions, epitaphs, &c. upon the tombs and grave-stones : with the lives, marriages and issue of the most eminent personages therein reposited and their coats of arms truly emblazon'd (Printed by J.N. and sold by John Morphew ..., 1711), by Jodocus Crull and Wenceslaus Hollar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reports and papers of the architectural and archaeological societies of the counties of Lincoln and Northampton. ([s.n.], 1851), by Associated Architectural Societies, Leicestershire Archaeological Society, Worcestershire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society, Northamptonshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, and Architectural and Archaeological Society of the County of Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history and antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey of that interesting county. To which is prefixed an historical introduction, with a brief view of ecclesiastical history; and an account of the druidical, Belgic-British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman antiquities, now extant. (J.B. Nichols and son, 1836), by William Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)

• A descriptive account of the antiquities in the grounds and in the museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society ... (H. Sotheran, 1852), by Yorkshire Philosophical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geology, natural history and pre-historic antiquities of Craven in Yorkshire (J. Dodgson, 1878), by L. C. Miall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forty years' researches in British & Saxon burial mounds of East Yorkshire. Including Romano-British discoveries, & a description of the ancient entrenchment on a section of the Yorkshire wolds (A. Brown & sons, limited, 1905), by J. R. Mortimer and Thomas Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years' researches in British and Saxon burial mounds of East Yorkshire, including Romano-British discoveries, and a description of the ancient entrenchments on a section of the Yorkshire wolds. (A. Brown and sons, limited, 1905), by J. R. Mortimer and Thomas Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Statement of origin and progress, with contents of journal published under the direction of the council; accounts, rules, officers, and list of members; corrected to 31st of May, 1876. (Bradbury, Agnew & Co., printers, 1876), by Yorkshire Archaeological Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• The children of Abrahams faith who are blessed, being found in Abraham's practise of burying their dead in their own purchased burying places, are not to be reproved: but therein are justified in the sight of God, and the practice of holy men in former ages. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year 1663), by Francis Gawler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Civitas Oxon. A bill of all the burials from Friday the VIth of August to Satterday the XIVth anno Dom. 1641. ([Oxford : s.n., 1641]), by Oxford (England : City) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The orders of vestry made and agreed unto in the year of our Lord 1677. of the rates payable for burials by the inhabitants in the parish of St. Buttolph without Aldgate, London. (London : printed by J. How, for William Sheepey, at the Bible and Crown in the Minories, [1677]), by London Saint Botolph (Aldgate (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Act touching marriages and the registering thereof, and also touching births and burials. (Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1653), by England and Wales, Henry Scobell, John Field, and England and Wales Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hydriotaphia, urne-buriall, or, a discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the garden of Cyrus, or the quincunciall, lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered. With sundry observations. / By Thomas Browne D. of Physick. (London, : Printed for Hen. Brome at the signe of the Gun in Ivy-lane., 1658), by Thomas Browne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix (London: Shaw and Sons, 1850), by Great Britain, ed. by W. Cunningham Glen (multiple formats at Google)
• The burials bill : correspondence between the Rev. T. J. Hughes, M.A., rector of Llanbedr, and Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P. ; with supplementary remarks. Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (Printed and published by J. Vaughan, "Guardian" office, 1872), by T. J. Hughes and George Osborne Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The burials question / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (W. Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, W.C., 1875), by Francis Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A contribution to the settlement of the burials question / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (P. S. King, King Street, Westminster ;, 1877), by Arthur Charles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Osborne Morgan's burials bill : speech of the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., in the House of Commons, March 26, 1873, on moving the rejection of the bill on its second reading. Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Printed for the Church Defence Institution, 1873), by Benjamin Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new burials act : what it does, and what it does not do, containing a short summary of the provisions of the act and the text of the act itself / Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (The Church Defence Institution, 9, Bridge Street, Westminster, 1880), by Alfred Theophilus Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act touching marriages and the registring thereof, and also touching births and burials (London : Printed by Iohn Field ..., 1653), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Good-wives lamentation, or, The womens complaint on the account of their being to be buried in woollen. (London : Printed for L.C., 1678) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• History of the Bunhill Fields burial ground, with some of the principal inscriptions ... (The Corporation, 1887), by City of London (England). Corporation. City Lands Committee and Charles Reed (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cambridge American Cemetery and memorial. (American Battle Monuments Commission, 1985), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them, Considered in Relation to Their Possible Bearing on His Portraiture, by C. M. Ingleby (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England. (Printed by T. Bensley, and sold by Messrs. Cadell and Davies, T. Payne, and White, Cochran, and Co., 1813), by Samuel Lysons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years'digging in Celtic and Saxon grave hills, in the counties of Derby, Stafford, and York, from 1848 to 1858; with notices of some former discoveries, hitherto unpublished, and remarks on the crania and pottery from the mounds. (G. Allen, 1861), by Thomas Bateman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homes and Haunts of the Wise and Good: or, Visits to Remarkable Places in English History and Literature (Philadelphia: W.P. Hazard, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Picturesque England: Its Landmarks and Historical Haunts, As Described in Lay and Legend, Song And Story (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1891), by L. Valentine (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Picturesque England : its landmarks and historical haunts : as described in lay and legend, song and story (F. Warne, 1893), by L. Valentine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our ancient monuments and the land around them. (E. Stock, 1880), by Charles Philip Kains- Jackson and John Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)

• British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England (Clarendon press, 1877), by William Greenwell and George Rolleston (page images at HathiTrust)

• English traits (Houghton, Mifflin ;, 1876), by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)

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