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193:. Twelve of them were published with descriptive letterpress by Ayloffe in 1748. It was Ayloffe's intention to introduce Kirby's drawings into an elaborate history of the county upon which he was apparently engaged for the succeeding 15 years. In 1764 he had made such progress in collecting and arranging his materials that he issued a lengthy prospectus for publication of an exhaustive
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Parliament before the Restoration in eight octavo volumes. Little favour was apparently extended to the scheme. Although in 1773
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Ayloffe died at Kensington on 19 April 1781 and with him the baronetcy became extinct. He had married about 1734 Margaret, daughter of Charles Railton of Carlisle, by whom he had one son, who died of smallpox at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1766. Both father and son were buried in
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England: containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... To which is added an account of such Nova Scotia baronets as are of English families; and a dictionary of heraldry ... by E
72:, through his third wife (Alice, daughter of James Stokes of Stoke near Coventry), their first son was Joseph Ayloffe, Joseph Ayloffe, barrister-at-law of Gray's Inn and sometime recorder of Kingston upon Thames, who died in 1726 and was this man's father.
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it was advertised that the first volumes would soon go to the press, none appears to have been published (cf. Rawlinson MSS. in the
Bodleian, s. v. 'Ayloffe'). Also in 1751, Sir Joseph issued a prospectus for subscribers to a translation of
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Calendars of the
Ancient Charters, and of the Welsh and Scottish Rolls, Now Remaining in the Tower of London... to Which are Added Memoranda Concerning the Affairs of Ireland Account of the State of The Public Records
110:. He received at once the recognition of the learned, although for many years he was merely collecting information and published nothing. On 10 February 1731/1732 he was elected a fellow of the
288:(Add MS 9051). The whereabouts of his other manuscript collections have not been traced, numerous as they clearly were and stated by contemporaries to have been invaluable in relation to the
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with additional or expanded articles on subjects of
English interest, but the first number, published on 11 June 1752, obtained scanty support and was severely handled in the
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Four pictures at
Cowdray near Midhurst, the property of Lord Montague, illustrating Henry VIII's wars in France in the latter part of his reign
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was published separately, with engravings, in 1780. An account of the chapel on London Bridge, by
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