Wendover Bookshop - Hatchments in Britain: Bedsfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Wiltshire, Peter Summers (editor)

Diamond-shaped funeral hatchments first came into vogue in the early 17th century, but are rarely used today.They are objects of considerable artistic merit, besides being of great interest and importance to students of heraldry, genealogy and local history. This is the fourth volume of this series, covering Buckinghamshire with four neighbouring counties, in which those hatchments still surviving in Britain are recorded for the first time.

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Read extracts from the biographies of Spencer Thornton, vicar of Wendover parish in the 1840s, and William Pennefather, vicar of Walton Parish, Aylesbury, in the 1840s.