Memorials and characters, together with the lives of divers eminent and worthy persons
Subtitle: ... Collected and compiled from above one hundred and fifty different authors, ... To which is added, an appendix of monumental inscriptions, ... Likewise chronological tables, and an index to the whole.
Contributors: Wilford, John, fl. 1723-1742.
Series: Eighteenth century -- reel 960, no. 1.
Publisher: printed for John Wilford
Published: 1741
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 788
Notes: Titlepage in red and black.

With a list of subscribers.

Issued in 26 parts.

The duplicate pp. 779-780 contains 'A particular account of the benefactions and charities of the Lady Elizabeth Hastings'.

The dedication is signed by John Wilford; the Dictionary of National Biography comments: "Wilford assumed the credit of editorship, and the book is invariably known as 'Wilford's Lives', but it was in reality the work of obscure compilers in his pay, chief among whom was John Jones (1700-1770)".

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1985. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 960, no. 1).