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Wenceslaus Hollar  (1607–1677)  wikidata:Q448555 s:en:Author:Wenceslaus Hollar q:cs:Václav Hollar
 
Wenceslaus Hollar
Description printmaker, cartographer, illustrator, graphic artist, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death 13 July 1607 Edit this at Wikidata 25 March 1677 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Prague London
Work period 1600 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q448555
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Abbot and Purefoy (monument).
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(author lived 1607-1677)
Dimensions 17 x 27 cm.
institution QS:P195,Q7789602
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Plate number: P2235.
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  • Classification: Architecture > Tombs and Monuments, Identified
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Monuments in the Church of Saints Theobald and Chad, Caldecote, Warwickshire.

  • Left: Engraving of wall-mounted monument to George Abbott (1604–48), in the parish church of SS Theobald and Chad, Caldecote, Warwickshire, England, from William Dugdale's The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated (1656).
George Abbot or Abbott (1604 – 2 February 1649) was an English lay writer, known as "The Puritan", and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1649. He is known also for his part in defending Caldecote House against royalist forces in the early days of the English Civil War. Abbott was the son of George Abbott of York (died 1607) and his wife Joan Penkeston. While Alumni Cantabrigienses states that he matriculated at King's College, Cambridge in 1622, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography discounts the identification, for lack of evidence.[2][3] He owned property in Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, and was a good friend of Richard Vines, minister at Caldecote some way to the east.[4] In April 1640, he was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth in the Short Parliament. In the English Civil War, Abbot worked closely in Warwickshire with his stepfather William Purefoy, and made a notable defence, with his mother Joan, of the Purefoy house at Caldecote, Warwickshire, gaining the family coverage in the London press. On 15 August 1642, with eight men, his mother and maids, he held out for a time against Prince Rupert of the Rhine, with about 18 troops of horses and dragoons. In the aftermath of the Battle of Edgehill, in October of the same year, Richard Baxter moved to Coventry, and Abbot was one of those hearing him preach there. Baxter in writing on the Sabbath referred to "my dear friend Mr. George Abbot". In his memoirs Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, Baxter placed Abbot's defence of Caldecote House, where barns were burnt, in local context: royalists under Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton were attacking Warwick Castle, defended by John Bridges, and Coventry, defended by John Barker. Abbot was re-elected MP for Tamworth in 1645 for the Long Parliament and held the seat until his death in 1649.[10] He died unmarried in his 44th year, and was buried in Caldecote church where his monument describes his defence of Caldecote.
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Source William Dugdale, Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated (1656)
Author Engraving by Wenzel Hollar

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